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Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: May 28th, 2024, 3:19 pm
by sander
Bingo!
Great work by you!
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 24th, 2024, 1:22 pm
by GregHouse
Hi.
To avoid creating another similar topic, I'll post it here.
I have the same problem: I'm downloading some NZBs and the PAR2 files are always getting useless and 700KB in size. It's not happening with all NZBs.
In the sabnzbd.ini the enable_par_cleanup = 1
Could it be that the files have already been deleted from the usenet server? Is the retention period over?
Thank you.
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 24th, 2024, 3:23 pm
by safihre
You have to be more specific.
Do the downloads fail to repair? Do you want to keep the par2 files?
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 24th, 2024, 4:55 pm
by GregHouse
The files do not repair because the PAR2 files are invalid/useless and are always 700 KB in size:
My system is in the Brazilian Portuguese language:

Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 25th, 2024, 11:22 am
by safihre
Maybe you can enable Debug logging in the Status window and then after it happens again click Show Logging.
Also, please update to 4.4.1 first.
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 25th, 2024, 9:07 pm
by GregHouse
safihre wrote: ↑December 25th, 2024, 11:22 am
Maybe you can enable Debug logging in the Status window and then after it happens again click Show Logging.
The generated
sabnzbd.log ?
The file is large (has a lot of text), which part is most relevant?
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 26th, 2024, 1:19 am
by sander
GregHouse wrote: ↑December 24th, 2024, 1:22 pm
Could it be that the files have already been deleted from the usenet server? Is the retention period over?
Thank you.
"Reparação falhou. Blocos de reparação insuficientes (faltam %s)"
which is the same as
"Repair failed, not enough repair blocks (585 short) "
So see
https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/faq#toc32
And SAB also offers to retry (which won't work), and therefore does not delete the files.
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 26th, 2024, 9:09 pm
by GregHouse
When SABnzbd fails to do the automatic repair, I try the manual repair with MultiPar:
So I think the file has already been deleted from the server. Strange that it's only the PAR2 files.
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 27th, 2024, 4:54 pm
by safihre
You can send me the logs at
[email protected]
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: December 27th, 2024, 5:58 pm
by GregHouse
I think the file was deleted from the server.
I tried to download it with another usenet client and the same problem occurs.
I sent the log.
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: April 20th, 2025, 4:20 pm
by DusaDom
I have the same problem with many nzb downloads.
SABnzb tells me that a 50 meg par2 file has been downloaded and it seems by the time it takes the progress bar to move that something is being downloaded but the Par2 files show up as 717 kb in size and thus repair does does not work.
I am using MacOS 4.5.1
I deleted the sabnzbd.ini and reset everything, same problem persists.
I can see SABnzb download stuff, but the par2 do not grow to full size.
I tried
enable_par_cleanup = 0
enable_par_cleanup = 1
same thing
nzb file example = "THE KING OF KINGS 1927 1080p CC WEB-DL AAC.2.0 H 264"
found on DrunkenSlug
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: April 21st, 2025, 3:26 am
by safihre
No it hasn't been downloaded. Only the first article has been downloaded. The repair fails because the total available par2 isn't enough.
The options here are not going to change anything.
Or what is the message that is shown in history?
Is the job even set to Repair?
Re: All PAR2 files downloading...
Posted: April 22nd, 2025, 7:00 am
by DusaDom
Update: In my case, I spoke with my usenet service provider and they did something to "refresh" the specific nzb file I was having problems downloading par2 files. They did something, I do not know what, and that fixed the problem and the par2 files downloaded properly and the rar riles repaired.