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unpack overwrites

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:23 pm
by PietPuk
Sometimes I download a movie, it then unpacks and after (or during) the unpack the samplefile is downloaded (that happens sometimes when I have the "sort article queue" set to priority).
If that samplefile has the same name as the unpacked movie, it overwrites the unpacked movie and yes, I have everything set to auto-rename.
That happened a minute ago, so I downloaded the movie again and watched what happened with the samplefile and yes, the new download unpacked and the samplefile was overwritten this time.

Re: unpack overwrites

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:19 pm
by alex
Can you be more specific?

Which overwrites unrar, UE or it is a mix, say sample not rared but the main file is rared?

What is the post in question?

Re: unpack overwrites

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:05 pm
by PietPuk
Yes, the samplefile was not packed en the main movie was packed.
So it seems that unpacking doesn't check for filennames already there or not.

That (in the other case) the samplefile overwrote the main movie was odd, because usually that renames correctly.
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that

Re: unpack overwrites

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:59 am
by alex
i'll try to check it in theory, can you pm me an example or email nzb?

not sure maybe unrar extracts using a temp name, then it could result in a sync problem, so you tell it may happen either way.