[REQ] Multiple Scan Folders

[celestian02]

Hi,

Not sure whether it's the good section to post this but this is more like a feature request. Would it be possible to consider adding support for multiple watch folders? Having one is great, several would be a nice addition as one can use its download folder when using Sabnzbd on the computer it is installed on but then, remotely use a dropbox folder for example to start any downloads! Thanks.

Cel.

[shypike]

Why don't you just use the Dropbox folder for all NZB files?
After all, it's just a local folder that's kept in sync with remote locations.

[celestian02]

Ahah. I was expecting such an answer but using it exclusively for dropbox would mean that my Internet browser download dir. would be synched which is not something I would want as sometimes you need to download big files and you don't require this data to be synched.

The multiple scan dirs for Sabnzbd would be a nice addition, in my opinion

[babiulep]

That is the case when you save your NZB files in the browser's default download dir...
But if you use linux and associate this bash script with NZB files in your browser... (Preferences->Applications->NZB file)
You can save your NZB files directly in your dropbox folder instead of the default download dir.

#!/bin/bash
mv "${1}" /My/Dropbox/Folder/NZB/
exit 0

Cheers!

[celestian02]

Thanks for your reply. Made me think of using Hazel instead which does pretty myuch like what a script would do.

Anyway, I just thought it would be a nice addition and I believe it should not be much of an hassle to implement if we consider a list of target path to scan in python!

But anyway, Shypike is the only judge Was just pointing that out. Thanks for your ideas!

[exussum]

Doesnt the scanning folder search inside dirs in that folder also ? If so use a symbolic link inside ?

[shypike]

Only folders that match a category name will be scanned
and the nzb will be assigned to that category.

[exussum]

so

$ mount -t davfs https://dav.dropdav.com /home/user/.sab/watched/dropbox

would work assuming a category called dropbox ?

[shypike]

Yes.

[castortray]

Only folders that match a category name will be scanned
and the nzb will be assigned to that category.

Hi,
I'm new, just switched from utorrent to sabnzbd

so you mean that for exmaple, If I set watched folder to:

C:\To_Download\sabnzbd

with two subfolders:

C:\To_Download\sabnzbd\movie
C:\To_Download\sabnzbd\tv

and after that I save nzb file to C:\To_Download\sabnzbd\movie folder, SABnzbd add it to the queue and assign to movie category (I have already created that category) ?

If not how to do that ?

Thanks in advance for any tips

[shypike]

Yes, it does.

[castortray]

that's cool !!!

thank you for your prompt answer !!!