Keep Terminal Running as a Widget

Don't bother using Terminal to run Hellanzb. Try a fantastic widget that you can leave running in the background and can, at the touch of F12 check the progress of your downloads.

The widget is available here: WidgetTerm 1.2
To start up Hellanzb all you need to do is type into WidgetTerm: hellanzb.py and press return. It will start up and continue to run unless you quick the widget or restart the computer.

Using your Idisk to grab the NZBs

If you want to have your home computer download any time, even when you are not there... this is how you do it.

As previously noted you can not set up hellanzb to find the nzb on your idisk without your idisk being where everything else goes too. Of course that is impossible with the size of the files etc.
Why do you want your idisk picking up the NZBs?
Well if your leave your hellanzb computer running at home, and you are at work or on the laptop on one of your other computers, you can save an NZB to your idisk that hellanzb will automatically start processing at your home. So when you get home there it is, downloaded and expanded for you exactly as you like.

The problem is, using OS X's built in Alias creating (putting an alias of your Idisk location on your drive running hellanzb) will not work, it doesn't reference it properly for the unix situation.

You will need "MakeSymlink" which once installed will allow you to properly set up a symlink or alias on your hard drive that references your idisk. This is confirmed working with hellanzb.

Awesome. Now I can download anywhere anytime, as long as I leave my computer running!

Hellanzb: Choose an External Drive for storage

Hi Guys,

Some tips for you.
I firstly want to explain how you set up the hellanzb config file to download to an external hard drive. See below:

Below is part of the config file. The most important is the PREFIX_DIR If you have this set as /user/ etc it will never download to your external hard drive, no matter what you put in the sections below (ie /Volumes/DownloadsHDD/Thundernews etc)

The folders below are folders I have created to store the various items on my external hard drive. So to set the original location to a mounted drive. Put /Volumes/ then the drive name.

Also please note that all the folders have to be on the one drive even the one that picks up the queued nzbs. So my next post will detail how to set that to a different destination (ie your idisk)

# Important locations
Hellanzb.PREFIX_DIR = '/Volumes/DownloadsHDD/'

# Where to put queued .nzb files
Hellanzb.QUEUE_DIR = Hellanzb.PREFIX_DIR + '/Thundernews/NZBs/'

# Where the fully processed archives go
Hellanzb.DEST_DIR = Hellanzb.PREFIX_DIR + '/Thundernews/Unpacked/'

# The .nzb currently being downloaded is stored here
Hellanzb.CURRENT_DIR = Hellanzb.PREFIX_DIR + '/Thundernews/To Download NZB/processing/'

# The archive currently being downloaded is stored here
Hellanzb.WORKING_DIR = Hellanzb.PREFIX_DIR + '/Thundernews/hellanzb Downloads/'