Sometimes strange behaviour of SABNZB with date

[dikkiedirk]

I download my movies with SABNZB by creating nzbs on an index-site and putting the nzb in the watched folder of sabnzb. I now notice that the downloaded movies are sometimes saved in a folder with the current date and sometimes in a folder with a date when the files were created. Can this behaviour be changed in SABNZB?

[sander]

I'll join this thread; I find this confusing / annoying too. I don't know the cause.

[dikkiedirk]

Glad I'm not the only one. Welcome aboard.

[sander]

I thought it was caused by a download having or not having a subdirectory, but that seems NOT to be the case.

[sander]

Some more investigation:

When I use "ll" or "ls -al", the download date is shown. That is what I want.

When I use nautilus, the old date is shown (the upload date? Or better: the directory creation date of the uploader), which Nautilus calls "Date Modified". When I lookup the properties, even Nautilus shows the download date too (just like "ll"). So Nautilus can show two dates. See picture.



See apparantly a directory on Linux has at least two dates...?

[Handyman1984]

Probably has everything to do with the original uploader's settings for the rar/zip file.
If the one who packed the files chose the option to store the time that's probably what you get, if it was left away you'll make your own time.

And yes, on linux a folder or file has more than one date. It stores created, modified and last accesed times. (the last one: noatime is a nice one to disable btw).

edit, might help you:
You could use the following command to show all 3:
stat file.name

[sander]

'stat' indeeds works for me:

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sander@R540:~/Downloads/SABdownloads$ stat virus.2/
  File: `virus.2/'
  Size: 4096         Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 808h/2056d   Inode: 6095055     Links: 2
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  sander)   Gid: ( 1000/  sander)
Access: 2012-04-20 22:49:46.256655813 +0200
Modify: 2011-02-07 19:50:50.000000000 +0100
Change: 2012-04-20 22:49:46.180655810 +0200
sander@R540:~/Downloads/SABdownloads$

After a 'touch' everything is set to 'now':

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sander@R540:~/Downloads/SABdownloads$ touch virus.2/
sander@R540:~/Downloads/SABdownloads$
sander@R540:~/Downloads/SABdownloads$
sander@R540:~/Downloads/SABdownloads$ stat virus.2/
  File: `virus.2/'
  Size: 4096         Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 808h/2056d   Inode: 6095055     Links: 2
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  sander)   Gid: ( 1000/  sander)
Access: 2012-04-21 18:47:57.161623996 +0200
Modify: 2012-04-21 18:47:57.161623996 +0200
Change: 2012-04-21 18:47:57.161623996 +0200
sander@R540:~/Downloads/SABdownloads$


So I could use that in a post-process script as a workaround ...

[Handyman1984]

Yep.
You might want to use 'find' to automate stuff and touch everything recursively in the folder:
find . -exec touch {} \;
(The '.' is a wildcard here. )

[shypike]

Often RAR files contain folders, these folders will get the date/time stamp as stored in the RAR file.
If you don't want this, you can use the "hidden" option ignore_unrar_dates (see http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-special ).

[sander]

Often RAR files contain folders, these folders will get the date/time stamp as stored in the RAR file.
If you don't want this, you can use the "hidden" option ignore_unrar_dates (see http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-special ).

I'll try that, but with two Divx files, both just plain files (no directories), one has an old date, one has the download date ...

[shypike]

If one is coming from a RAR file and the other not, this may explain date differences.
Also the Sort functions may affect dates.

[dikkiedirk]

I have set it up in a way that each download gets unpacked in a separate folder. I want the folder to have the time and date it got created. The file should have time and date it got createted.

[shypike]

[quote="dikkiedirk"The file should have time and date it got createted.[/quote]
No, it will get the date inside the RAR file.
If you don't want that, use the special option.