I've been manually examining the items in my download queue and deleting the sample files myself from within the queued NZB, but it would be great to have something to do this automatically. So, I'm looking at writing a queue pre-processor to remove these.
Before I started though, I began searching and found an old post from @shypike that has stopped me:
Can anyone advise if this is still the case? Probably wouldn't be a big deal - I could just leave all the par files alone.shypike wrote:I don't recommend the setting "Do not download samples" because many
posters foolishly include the sample in the same par2 collections as the main files.
BTW: why does the GUI sometimes stop me from deleting certain files in the queued NZB? These always seem to be pars - is it because this download may be missing articles and so these par files will be needed?
Thank you.
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