Newsbin crashes when downloading headers and disk is full

[Calahan]

Hello,

if there isn't enough harddisk space anymore, Newsbin crashes when downloading headers
Using Newsbin 6.90 - Build 5524. Would be nice if this could be fixed.

All the best,
Calahan

[Quade]

Min Free Space on Data and Download Drives.

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[SETTINGS]
MinFreeSpace = {megs}


You might want to bump this up or add it in the NBI if it's not there.

I have mine set for 30 gigs. Which is 30000 in the NBI file.

You run the risk of corrupting DB's when you run the disk space that low.

I can try to figure out why downloading headers to a full disk crashes Newsbin.

[Calahan]

I'm using the "MinFreeSpace" setting and it works for downloading and unpacking files.
It does not work when downloading headers.

[Quade]

It'll pause the download so new header downloads won't start. Are you constantly re-downloading headers from large groups?

I could see how many headers are in the process of downloading and abort the downloads that are likely to blow you out of disk space. Headers are different from file downloads. There are no convenient stopping points. You can't pause the download because the connection will time out. Aborting would prevent running out of disk space. You could always re-add the header download.

[Calahan]

I'm downloading headers of large groups. I'm not re-downloading, just downloading.
Sometimes importing headers is so slow that the import folder is filled with thousands of files.
I added another 500 GB SSD, so I have 1 TB of space but it seems it's not enough.
Is it possible to abort running header downloads if free space limit would be hit?