Enhanced unrar functionalities

[TheFireman]

It would be great to have the following enchanced functionalities:

1. Check if there is enough free space before unraring begins, if not do not start the unrar till there is enough space available (another user has reported that unraring hangs if there is not enough space).

2. As it is now, when manually adding par2 sets to the par2 tab, you cannot change the status of whether they should be unrared or not and by default they are not unrared. It would help if by default the autounrar option was set for manually added par2 sets and if it was possible to manually change the autounrar status in the par2/unrar tab. It would also be nice to be able to manually add rarsets that do not have par2 sets, so that they will also be unrared.

3. It would be a great add-on to have, if there was an auto check of the download folder for new par2/rarsets every xx minutes and add these to the par2/unrar tab as well, with autounrar enabled. This would also work great in the direction of par2 checking and unraring files that come from other sources, besides Alt.Binz. It would also be great to be able to detect and automatically add rarsets, even if they do not have par2 sets.

4. It would be nice to have an option to test rarsets before unraring them. The fact that par2 checks out does not necessarily mean that the rarset is 100% OK as well. This would also help in the case that no par2 set is available and the rarset is added manually or automatically (with the every xx minute check in point 3)

I know all these are much to ask for, but the whole automatic procedure of checking and unraring files is really a huge timesaver and I think lots of people would be greatful for these additions.

Believe it or not, I still use AtEON today for autounraring purposes (rarsets from sources other than Alt.Binz), even though I have to have Fazzt installed, so that it works.

[d4f0rc3]

Hi, one feature that is really missing in that awesome program is that you can seperate the download-folder from the unrar-folder. Imagine you have one download-folder and unrar to different locations or different harddrives from that download-folder. That way the download goes all the way to the same folder, but the content of the RARs is unrared to a chosen folder (e.g. right-click -> unrar to). I hope you get what I'm looking for.
I have a download-partition separated from the storage-partition because of possible fragmentation ... and it would be great to use alt.binz the way I used NL (there it was possible to specify a different destination for the extraction).

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!

[Gompy]

Hi, one feature that is really missing in that awesome program is that you can seperate the download-folder from the unrar-folder. Imagine you have one download-folder and unrar to different locations or different harddrives from that download-folder. That way the download goes all the way to the same folder, but the content of the RARs is unrared to a chosen folder (e.g. right-click -> unrar to). I hope you get what I'm looking for.
I have a download-partition separated from the storage-partition because of possible fragmentation ... and it would be great to use alt.binz the way I used NL (there it was possible to specify a different destination for the extraction).

Thanks in advance and keep up the good work!

Does Setup/Unrar "Create subfolder based on NZB name" or "Create subfolder based on archive name" something for you?... :roll:  :roll:  :wink:

[Hecks]

Or just Setup > PAR2 > Unrar > 'Unrar to a different folder' ...

-Hecks

[d4f0rc3]

If found these options already but they are global settings. Subfolders are of no interest to me and the different folder isn't of interest either, because not everything is in one folder but e.g. separated into TV, Movie, Music ... so either I can specify a destination for every object in the par2/unrar tab or I'll have to do it manually. As said before NL has the option when you Right-Click an object in the Repair-Tab, you can specify a destination-folder where it is extracted for each one.

[Hecks]

You can get the same functionality with altbinz if you choose Setup > Unrar > 'Create subfolder based on NZB name', together with 'Setup > Miscellaneous > 'Prompt for name when importing from search engines'.  When you add anything to the queue, you can specify group name, this will then be used as the  extract destination folder name.  Set this to 'TV'. 'Movies', etc., as you will.  You can also change group name by right-clicking in the queue. This only works on one drive at a time, though.

My alternative is to extract all to the root of a drive and hotkey a simple batch file to sort everything into folders:

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@echo off

:sort TV series
if exist "E:\Series1*.avi" move /y "E:\Series1*.avi" "E:\TV\Series1\"
if exist "E:\Series2*.avi" move /y "E:\Series2*.avi" "E:\TV\Series2\"

:sort what's left to another drive
if exist "E:\*.avi" move /y "E:\*.avi" "F:\Movies\"



You get the idea.

-Hecks

[d4f0rc3]

got it thats similar to the way I'm dealing with that atm but it would be handy to specify a destination-folder when right-clicking on the dl in the par2/unrar tab like NL has it. Just a request because I guess it's not difficult to add.

Solved: http://www.altbinz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=244

[Hecks]

Excellent!  RDL sure is quick ...

-Hecks