SABnzbd - Repairing and extracting

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As soon as downloading all the files has finished, the task will be removed from the queue. You can now monitor its progress in the 'History' section under the queue. The next steps to be performed are checking the files, downloading PAR2 repair files, repairing, extracting and removing obsolete files.

Here we find our movie 'Big Buck Bunny' again. We can see that the process is being started:

The downloaded files are being verified:

Appearantly one or more files were incomplete. So some repair blocks need to be downloaded:

These repair blocks are first verified themselves:

Then the repair can start:

After repairing the downloaded files will be extracted:

Now the downloaded files can be found in your download folder. If you want you can purge the history by clicking on the following button:

Finally you can shut down the program in necessary by clicking on 'Options' -> 'Shutdown' in the top right-hand corner. However, you might not want to do that as it will shutdown SABnzbd entirely. So then it will stop checking your 'Watched folder' for new NZB files to import. Probably just closing your browser is what you want, so that SABnzbd will keep running in the background.

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