Completed Download Handling - Different Computers

I wanted to use two different computers with this - one running SAB, the other running NZBDrone.

The wiki entry says you can’t do it (or shouldn’t do it). Anyway I have it working…

The key was to map a drive with the SAME drive letter as the original drive, then both paths are the same.

For example:
MACHINE1 runs SAB and has a drive called “X:” and SAB dumps the downloaded files into a folder called “X:\TVinc”.
I shared the “X:” drive on my network (for example: \\MACHINE1\xdrive$ but could be anything).
Then on MACHINE2 which runs NZBDrone, I did a persistent map to the share and mapped it to drive X:

So now when SAB tells NZBDrone the path of a newly downloaded file, it uses the path “X:\TVinc\…” and NZBDrone on the 2nd machine looks in that same path, which has X: mapped to \\MACHINE1\xdrive$, and NZBDrone is able to locate and process the file successfully.

Also, as a side note, I’ve left the NZB Drone Factory enabled, because sometimes I manually download files outside of NZBDrone/SAB and just dump the files into the Factory folder and NZBDrone picks up the files and processes them. In this way, I get the best of both worlds. I’ve also tested this successfully.

HTH.

– Toby

Yeah, as long as the paths are identical (which you made them) then it will work. Its an advanced setup scenario and we didn’t want to overwhelm people with options/configuration.

The new download handler is working really well – thanks for the update!