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i have been using SAB problem-free for a few months now.  all of a sudden, when i add a nzb file, it downloads and extracts, but when i look in the completed folder there are two copies of each download. 

for example, i get the following in my completed folder:
2x01 - TV Show
2x01 - TV Show.1

any suggestions as to what might be going on?

I had the same on 0.4.11 - it was actually 2 copies of everything in the queue...

I had connections timed out, newzbin msg ids were stuck on 'retrieving', I hit reset on the on computer, all worked fine, I just had to copies of everthing.

I didn't think much of it, the computer had been downloading for over a week constantly without fault.

Do you use nzbdstatus plugin for firefox? If so, check in the settings if "Send NZB files to this deamon" is checked. If it is checked, uncheck it because you probably using another way to import nzb files to sabnzbd and nzbdstatus plugin is also importing it at the same time causing it to double downloads

I have the identical issue.  According to the History, it has only been downloaded once. 

Using v0.4.11
Not using the firefox extension
I noticed that this happened with two files downloaded using RSS feeds (from mytvnzb), but not with an NZB downloaded manually.

Go to Config->Switches and set option "Do not download same job twice" on.
RSS feeds may well contain multiple copies of a download.

I have just started getting this too, on the latest 0.5 beta.

No RSS feeds active, no addon programs running..."do not download dupes" is selected.

Seems to put one copy into the queue then start downloading two copies. Once the first is complete, the seond starts with the folder name appended with xxxx.1.

geebee wrote: I have just started getting this too, on the latest 0.5 beta.
No RSS feeds active, no addon programs running..."do not download dupes" is selected.
Seems to put one copy into the queue then start downloading two copies. Once the first is complete, the seond starts with the folder name appended with xxxx.1.

And you are certain that you do not have the Firefox add-on nzbStatus installed?
You see ONE job in the queue and it gets downloaded (completely) TWICE?
You need to supply more info, otherwise this is in the "it doesn't work" complaint category...

Apologies, let me try to explain more...

I have NO addons to sabnzbd running. No nzbstatus or any other. No RSS feeds set up. Iam passing .nzbs via a .cmd file containing:
copy /y %1 "\\daisy\Qdownload\sabnzbd\nzb"

I have Sab set to filter out .sfv and .nzb files. I noticed today the second copy of whatever is being duplicated, which seems to be pretty much everything, is NOT filtering them out, but the first copy does.

Also, although it downloads twice, it only appears once in the queue. The second copy downloads "invisibly" it seems, until it completes and it appears in the history.



I have been running Sab for years, including most of the betas, and have never seen this before.


EDIT:


Found this in "warnings":

2009-08-10 09:01:13,869
ERROR
#error-remove# /share/Qdownload/sabnzbd/nzb/xxxxxxxx.nzb

and

2009-08-09 22:32:48,657
WARNING
#warn-skipDup# yyyyyyyyyyyyy.nzb

The warnings indicate that the OS does not allow SABnzbd to remove the NZB files from the watched folder.
This should not be a problem, unless some other program (or the OS) changes the file's attributes (time/date stamp, size).

One other scenario that I can imagine is that you have an NZB file that downloads only another NZB file.
In that case the downloaded NZB is added to the queue (ignoring the filter setting).
(BTW: this is a useful feature).

You can try to enter the NZB files in another way, so not through the watched folder to see if that makes a difference.
The design of the watched folder is quite complicated, because it's not easy to know when a file is actually completed.