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Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

Not sure what is going on, but nzbs.org at least has a tab before the first line in all of their nzb files so sabnzbd will not recognize it and instead will throw this error: (reason=XML or text declaration not at start of entity, line=1). If you go in and manually remove the space, it will download fine.

Straithate fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jul 9, 2011

# ¿ Jul 9, 2011 23:51

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 01:53

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

This is probably a silly question but I have never really used SB for post-processing, so... I have multiple drives that I have bought as needed, so that means that I have one drive with one season on it and another drive with another season. All of the drives have kind of been organized by theRenamer or other similar software, so if I were to go into SB and pick a single location for a show, could I then turn SB's post-processor loose on an organized folder and expect everything to go where it is supposed to and clean up after itself?

Also, can I have the ultimate destination folder (R:/Blah/Blahblah/) be in the same folder that I process with Sick Beard (R:/Blah/) or will that confuse it?

Edit: Answered my own questions when I got home. Yes, to the first one, and yes to the second one. If the show isn't on the list or is already where it should be Sick Beard will recognize that fact and move on to the next file.

Straithate fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Feb 4, 2013

# ¿ Feb 3, 2013 22:36

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:

Was wondering if someone had a guide on how to automate TV shows/movies coming in from uTorrent or Sabnzb and then having something organize them without me having to do anything.

I have Couchpotato and SickBeard, but the way it's set up now isn't 100%. Instructions would be key, or perhaps a page number where it was discussed?

Thanks guys

E: I should mention its scene releases of stuff normally and it usually comes in a folder with a video file then 3-4 useless files.

For TV shows coming through SABnzbd you would:

1. Go to Categories and make a new category that would look like this, change the path to whatever you want. Also, you don't need to set the priority to high unless you want all new TV show downloads to be put on the top of the queue.

If you want SAB to notify Sick Beard that it has completed a download and that it should immediately process the download go here: http://code.google.com/p/sickbeard/wiki/PostProcessing If you continue to follow these instructions, SB will post-process downloads but there will be a delay of 15-20 minutes.

2. Then go to Sick Beard and go to Config -> Search Settings and where it says SABnzbd Category put the name of the category you just made in the previous step. Save.

3. Now go to Config -> Post Processing and select the folder you setup in step one. Uncheck Keep Original Files, and I have Move Associated Files, Renamed Episodes, and Scan and Process all checked but you can change those based upon your preference. Leave Scan and Process checked! Save.

4. Next setup your naming system and metadata type to whatever you use. Save.

Now what will happen is Sick Beard will tell SABnzbd to download a TV show and when that happens, it will also tell it that it should place those downloads in the TV category you created during step 1. Sick Beard will watch the folder that you designated in step 3 and when a new file appears in that folder it will scan it, rename it, and then send it to the location that you specified when you added the show to your show list in Sick Beard.

I don't use CouchPotato so instead I use SABnzbds built in sorting and it works well.

Straithate fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Feb 4, 2013

# ¿ Feb 4, 2013 15:15

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:

Appreciate it.

I think the only problem is how things are downloaded. Case in point - a show I got is in a folder and that folder has about 4-5 files in it, one being the show and the rest being fluffed. Everything works until it gets to SickBeard organizing the folder and putting it in the right spot - wondering if its because the file is in a folder?

What happens when it tries to process it? The extra files should either be moved with it if they are important (srr/srt/sfv/nfo) and you have that option selected in Sick Beard, or they will deleted or perhaps left in the folder -- I haven't played with that option. Nevertheless, your video files should be moved out of the completed download folder into the folder you specified when adding the show to Sick Beard. During this process the file and folder will be formatted to your specifications. If you do not have the show in your show list and you manually downloaded it, Sick Beard is going to skip over it when processing the folder and nothing is going to happen. It doesn't matter if your shows are in folders or not.

Straithate fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Feb 4, 2013

# ¿ Feb 4, 2013 18:17

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

bobdigi posted:

I use https://nzb.su/ for the Site URL. Not sure if the https is even needed or not. Worth a shot.

I also use https://nzb.su/ and it all works perfectly, so you may want to give that a shot.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2013 05:18

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

Trash Heap posted:

I assume if I want to do the whole sickbeard thing I may need VIP access. Also, they don't index adult content anymore either? That was like the first thing I remember using usenet for. I know they used to...

You will need VIP for both since they have disabled API access for non-VIP accounts, and hidden the porn tab.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2013 03:19

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

Drevoak posted:

So I've got sabnzbd running on my synology NAS. It works great for most of my downloads however any big files needing to be verified and eventually repaired can take hours since its running on the NAS. Is there a way I can safely tell sabnzbd to stop repairing the download so that I can move it to my main PC to do all the hard work? I'm just worried that stopping it midrepair can cause further damage.

Is there any real reason why you don't just run sabnzbd on your main computer and then transfer the files to the NAS after they are post processed? Do you turn your computer off very often or something? Depending upon your hardware you probably wont even notice that anything is happening in the background, I don't.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2013 05:23

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

madpanda posted:

It was set to 0, i tried changing it to 400 and get the same error.

You should set the retention to what your provider has as the max, so with Astraweb 1685.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 23:52

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

Keito posted:

No point in setting retention for the primary account anyway.

Probably not, but I remember running into some sort of problem when it wasn't set and SAB just sat there when it I tried to download something out of retention. This was a long time ago though, maybe that's no longer the case.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 23:56

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 01:53

Straithate: Sep 11, 2001; Bow before the might of the Clarkson!

I switched from Sickbeard this weekend and it took less than 20 minutes for it to scan 4 2TB drives and configure. It picks up all of your shows and you just need to click add -- that's it.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 13:02

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