Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan on linux: nzb download do not save any files

[Beso]

2008/8/28 Andreia Gaita <address@hidden>:
> On 8/27/08, Beso <address@hidden> wrote:
>> and pan still has a big issue with downloading nzb.... it cannot cache
>>  the nzb file but only download it, and if incomplete there are big
>>  problems putting together the complete parts. that's why klibido for
>>  this as nzb downloader is still better. or you could try out a new
>>  project called nzb downloader which is just based on qt and not on
>>  kdelibs as klibido. or at the end you could try out some windows nzb
>>  downloader with wine. now wine is quite good in emulating the nzb
>>  downloaders.
>
> If things are incomplete on the server by, say, 10%-15%, and it is a
> proper posting (i.e., with par2 files accompanying it, as all posts
> should have), you can just use par2 to recover the remainder of the
> files. I've been using pan and nzb's for years, and to this date,
> there was only one download I couldn't recover this way.
>
> andreia
>
>

the problem with pan is that if the nzb contains parts that are
incomplete it will not decode that part or, even worse, would stop
downloading that incomplete part in the download queue without an
option  to save the downloaded articles. in this way if par2 would
have been able to recover the incomplete parts it might happen that
the recovery blocks would not be enough to recover the pan downloaded
stuff.



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dott. ing. beso