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/'