Configure Switches

Control post-processing behaviour

Extra PAR2 paramters See Multi-core PAR2
Enable unrar Allow the use of the UNRAR command for unpacking RAR files. Whether or not RAR files are actually unpacked is controlled by the job options.
Enable unzip Allow the use of the UNZIP command for unpacking ZIP files. Whether or not ZIP files are actually unpacked is controlled by the job options.
Enable File Join Allow the use of file joining of split files. Works only if the files are called file.001, file.002, file.003 etc.
Enable Par cleanup Allows removal of PAR2 files after corrections of the download have been applied. Only set this to false when you have error correction problems witth SABnzbd.
Fail on yenc crc Errors Only important when using fill servers. When a primary server delivers a message with errors you can ignore the message and rely on PAR2 correction. You can also choose to try to download the message from a fill server, but this takes more time and bandwidth.
Post-process only verified jobs Only perform post-processing on jobs that passed all PAR2 checks.
Only get articles for top of the queue When a top-job stalls for some reason, start downloading segments for the next job (costs more memory). This prevents a job from blocking the queue when you have an unreliable Usenet server. If you need this behaviour, set the value to False. If you have a reliable server (most paid servers), you might as well set this to True.
Post-process only verified jobs Disabled by default. This will not try and extract if the file fails par2 checking.
Default post-processing Specify the [[Job Options]] for jobs that are started by reading NZB files in the dirscan directory.
Default user script Default user-provided script that should be executed after a job completes.

Other controls

Send group Some news servers require the Usenet group to be sent before starting download. Only set true if (one of) your servers has problems with downloading otherwise.
Sort by age When you use a server with a low retention time, you can choose to download the oldest parts of a job first. This way you have more chance on completing the download.
Check for new release If enabled, SABnzbd will check once a week whether a new release has been published on SourceForge.net
Replace Spaces in folder names Enable to name folders with words seperated by an underscore instead of a space
Launch browser on startup Select "No" to disable the auto-launch of the browser when SABnzbd is opened.
Ignore sample files Do not download files whose names contain "sample".
Pause downloading during post-processing Will pause the queue while verifying and repairing, only needed for resource-constrained systems (like NAS-devices)

Multi-core PAR2


The Win32 distribution of SABnzbd now comes with a multi-core version of the PAR2 program which will see improvements for those with multi-core processors. For linux or OSX you will need to locate the multi-core versions of par2 yourself.
The behaviour of multi-core PAR2 can be influenced by an extra parameter.
This option is only of use to users running the multi-core par2 version, so do not specify the value if you are running the normal (single-core) version of par2.
These are the choices:

-t- : Use it single-core
-t0 : Use multi-core for repairs but not for verify (prevents disk trashing)
-t+ : Always use multi-core

You may need to experiment a bit to get the best behaviour for your system.

Should you have another variant of PAR2, you specify its required parameters here.

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