Hello all, I have been using SABnzbd for years but I'm trying to streamline my workflow and I'm having a little trouble figuring out exactly what SAB is doing.
I am grabbing an .nzb from and indexer site that downloads a password-protected .rar that contains the .nzb for the actual video file I want to download. I have a category set up to download .nzb files to a specific NZB directory, without job folders so it should just dump any downloaded .nzb files there. Then I have that folder set as the watched folder in SAB so it will pick up the .nzbs that have been extracted from the password-protected .rars. The picked-up .nzb files then get added to the queue and I have other categories set up to route them into other download folders. Hope all that makes sense.
This all works fine as long as my "NZB" category is set to "+Unpack", but the problem is it leaves the original pw-protected .rar files behind in the NZB directory.
If I change it to "+Delete" it disrupts the workflow by downloading the pw-protected .rar, extracting the .nzb, adding the .nzb to the queue then deleting the entire NZB directory, downloading the video file, then re-creating the NZB directory and dropping the video file into it ignoring all my other categories. At least that's what I think it's doing, when I would expect it to just delete the pw-protected .rar and leave the .nzb there to be picked up on the next watched-folder scan.
Any ideas or options to make this work, without leaving .rar files behind that have to be cleaned up manually? I am running Windows 10. Thanks!
Need help with workflow, +delete adds nzb to queue?
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Re: Need help with workflow, +delete adds nzb to queue?
If a job contains only other nzb files, these will be automatically redirected to the queue, with the same job settings. In case there's only a single nzb in your initial download, it will also keep the job name. See here for the inner workings.
That means your workflow of extracting nzb-only jobs into the watch dir only to get sab to pick them up again is - at the very least - an unnecessary detour. Simply handle such jobs as if you already had the final nzb on hand (including category settings and the likes) and you're all set.
That means your workflow of extracting nzb-only jobs into the watch dir only to get sab to pick them up again is - at the very least - an unnecessary detour. Simply handle such jobs as if you already had the final nzb on hand (including category settings and the likes) and you're all set.