Filter jobs when importing an NZB?

[pjricc]

In my day-to-day usage of NMP I have learned that it would be a good feature for me if NMP would allow "NZB" import filtering, or the ability to prevent specific jobs for user-defined file types from queuing.

For example, if I import a video NZB collection it will often contain AVIs, NFOs, SFVs, NZBs, BMP, and SAMPLE file types. In these cases I would prefer not to queue the NFOs, SFVs, BMPs, NZBs, and even the SAMPLES, much the same way we can instruct NMP not to queue PAR files.

The same thing happens with NZB collections containing audio files. I find often that these collections will also contain M3U (playlists), BMP and NZB files, where I am only interested in the MP3 or FLAC.

The reason is that once the download/extraction completes, the download directory can be littered with (in my case) lots of useless files that I immediately have to delete. Yes, I can handle all of this manually but it can be tedious - it would be preferable if the software could handle this by offering a way to prevent these files from downloading and extracting in the first place.

Opinions?
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Regards,
Peter

OS/DB: Windows XP Pro -- MySQL 5.0.45

[administrator]

The problem is that, in many cases, these miscellaneous files are included in the Par2 index file. Therefore, if they aren't downloaded, the set will need repairing which would mean that NMP will need to download Par2 volumes and the files will appear anyway. Now, this isn't always the case, but how would you know when it is or not?

I'd say that if you are using post processing to handle repair and extract duties you could add a final step to cleanup the download folder using a batch file or VBscript.

Regards

[pjricc]