On 2017-01-06 18:46:05 +0000, fred-bloggs said:
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:27:44 GMT, BillFrugge <pinback@darkstar.spc>
> wrote
>
>> On 2016-12-27 19:26:53 +0000, fred-bloggs said:
>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:16:00 GMT, BillFrugge <pinback@darkstar.spc>
>>> wrote
>>>
>>>> nzbking is a nice search engine, but it's results are worthless.
>>>> Every nzb file I've gotten from them lately points to files that are
>>>> far too small to be of any use. These are no exception. What should
>>>> be a 3GB download comes to 20-30MB.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No surprise, you are using Giganews.
>>
>> Found it!
>>
>> Giganews' retention is only part of it.
>
> Giganews misses the first 2 years of nzbking's index and Giganews' poor
> completion is a problem too.
>
>> Even newer posts are
>> irretrievable using nzbking.
>>
>> The problem is that nzbking is doing something different with the
>> creation of their nzb files, and my copy of newsbin pro is unable to
>> deal with it.
>>
>> I'm able to open nzb files with JDownloader that Newsbin won't.
>>
>>
>
> I use SABnzbd without a problem with nzbking nzbs.
>
> BTW nzbs are editable in notepad - if you can read xml and you want to
> investigate further.
I'm definitely going to look at SABnzbd. JDownloader supports giganews,
but not my backup server. (I do plan to change, though) The fact that
SABnzbd supports the Mac and Linux is even more attractive.
I've opened one of the nzbs in notepad, but not sure I've found the
difference yet.
|
|