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For the last few versions i've noticed that I keep getting _UNPACK_something folders on my drive before the videos have finished downloading.

I have my system setup to only download for a few hours in the middle of the night, due to shitty satellite restrictions, I only use my 'free zone' for downloading.

Every morning, some files have finished, and whatever file was downloading when the schedule turned off the downloads has one of these _UNPACK_ files on my drive. If I ignore it, and just let it finish the next night, the _UNPACK_ file is gone, but while it's there, it gets imported into my media player, and it's just annoying.

It didn't do this several months ago, and I keep hoping an update will fix it, but since I can't find any other reports of this happening, maybe it's just me. if so, how do I get this behavior to stop?

It's a feature! You can turn it off: direct unpack

thanks for the quick solution! wish I would have inquired sooner

If your media player supports special markers, SABnzbd has the Config > Specials setting "nomedia_marker". For example if you add ".noindex" there, it will create this file during the unpacking and it should not be imported. But of course your player should support such kind of files.

(Sorry for slow response, I was moving homes)