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Seeing Random file names upon unpack

Posted: November 20th, 2017, 9:26 pm
by bogchop
Hi all.

I've noticed that some of my downloads in the last 6 months have been coming back with random filenames in their respective directories, such as:

`6c526a96f5b61ea3` yEnc (01+68)
`20f2ca3fcffa248f` yEnc (01+68)
`61ac6877a8a57e61` yEnc (01+65)

... and so forth. Is this an issue with the usenet provider? I'm currently running the latest build of SAB, on WinHomeServer 2011.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Re: Seeing Random file names upon unpack

Posted: November 21st, 2017, 2:16 am
by safihre
These posts are obfuscated, a technique to hide them from DCMA takedown.
The only way for a post to still be salvageable is if it includes a par2 file. Sabnzbd will use the recovery information to detect the right filenames. Does this post have any par2 files?
If so: could you send the NZBs to me at [email protected]?
If there's no par2 included, there's nothing to do to fix it unfortunately.

Re: Seeing Random file names upon unpack

Posted: November 21st, 2017, 6:42 am
by bogchop
I thought as much. In most case, no par2 files :(

Re: Seeing Random file names upon unpack

Posted: November 21st, 2017, 9:58 am
by sander
Question for @bogchop:

Why did you decide to download those files?

My guess: somewhere you got to link to those files. If so: that "somewhere" must tell what it is?

Re: Seeing Random file names upon unpack

Posted: November 21st, 2017, 11:24 pm
by bogchop
@sander - I downloaded an NZB as per usual. When I looked in the unpacked dir, it's how they all came. Other nzb's from the same TV series unpacked just fine.