Interface: Description

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Toolbar

  • Icons:
Image:connect_button.png Connect: Connects/disconnects you to/from your server
Image:pause_button.png Pause: Pauses your download (Note: scheduler overrides this)
Image:nzb_button.png Import NZB: Import a NZB from a folder.
Image:download_button.png Download: Opens your default download folder.
Image:cleanup_button.png Cleanup: Deletes all 100% NZBs from the queue and all green PAR2 sets from the PAR2 tab.
Image:search_button.png Search: Global Search. Choose the Search engines to search with
Image:scheduler_button.png Scheduler: Click to activate scheduler (to set it go to Setup -> Scheduler) Note: An active scheduler overrides some settings: Pause (button), Connect (button) and download speed limit.
Image:shutdown_button.png Shutdown: When all Tasks are finished, Alt.Binz will execute chosen shutdown method (Setup -> Miscellaneous #2)
Image:setup_button.png Setup: Click to open setup menu (see Setup).
Image:site_button.png Site: Opens Alt.Binz homepage.
Image:forum_button.png Forum: Opens Alt.Binz forum.
Image:notes_button.png Note: Click to leave some notes.
Image:about_button.png About: Infos about Alt.Binz
Image:version_button.png Version: Click to see if there is a newer Version. (Button text changes to 'Current' or new version number, example: '0.26.5')
Image:donate_button.png Donate: Click to see what you can get with your donation


  • With a rightclick on free space, you can hide/enable buttons, hide/enable button text or change layout
  • Some Themes:

Image:abzblue.PNG Image:abzolive.PNG Image:abzsilver.PNG Image:abzzune.PNG

Connection Panel

  • You can see what each of your Connections does by clicking on Image:verbindanaus.PNG in the bottom right corner
  • The Connection panel has 5 columns:
    • #: Shows Number of thread
    • Status: Speed of thread
    • Action: Action of thread (Downloading / Idle / Connecting / Disabled / Connected)
    • Description: Article / Failure number
    • Server: your usenet server
  • You can disable / enable or adding new threads with a rightclick


Statusbar

  • statusbar shows the current status from Alt.Binz.
  • You can hide/enable them by rightclicking on the unused space.
  • Explanations from left to right:
    • Image:nolimit.PNG Limit: You can throttle your download here. (left click). You can choose between 0 and 100%. Don’t forget to set your max. download speed (Setup -> Connection). Note: Scheduler overwrites this setting.
    • Image:speedgr.PNG Current Speed/Speed Graph: You can see your download speed at the moment here. In the graph on the right you can see your speed in the last 2 min. the green horizontal line shows your speedlimit
    • Image:downloaded.PNG Queue size: Size of complete queue (dblclick to change display (KB - MB -GB))
    • Image:eta.PNG ETA: You can see here how long it will take until all downloads are finished. If you choose "eta on selected" you can see it here in blue.
    • Image:downloaded.PNG Transfered Bytes: You can see here how many you’ve downloaded. (dblclick to change display (KB - MB -GB), right click to reset)
    • Image:free.PNG Free Space: Shows to you how many free space is left on drive your default download dir is located.


Tab: Download Queue

  • All NZBs you want to download are in the download queue.
  • NZB display is divided in: Status, Parts, Size, Subject, Poster, Age, Group, Download folder, Unrar and Execute.In the column Unrar you can see the rar symbol Image:Unrar.PNG and the unrar folder if unrar is activated.In the column Parts you can see how many parts your NZB has. For example "49f/7p" means the NZB contains 49 parts and 7 repair files (PAR2 files).
  • Icons:
    • Image:Unpause.PNG Unpause: Click to unpause the marked NZB(s).
    • Image:Pause.PNG Pause: Click to pause the marked NZB(s).
    • Image:Movetotop.PNG Move selected to top: Moves selected NZB(s) in front of the queue.
    • Image:Moveup.PNGMove selected up: Moves selected NZB(s) one position up.
    • Image:Movedown.PNG Move selected down: Moves selected NZB(s) one position down.
    • Image:Movetobottom.PNG Move selected to bottom: Moves selected NZB(s) to the bottom of the queue..
    • Image:Join.PNG Join: Joins selected NZBs to only one NZB.
    • Image:Split.PNG Split: Splits selected files from one NZB to a new one.
    • Image:collall.PNG Collapse all: Hides all files from all NZBs, only NZBs are now visible
    • Image:expall.PNG Expand all: Shows all files from all NZBs.
    • Image:rename.PNG Rename group name: Click to rename a NZB.
    • Image:nzbexp.PNG Export to NZB: Exports the selected NZB as a file to your default NZB folder.
    • Image:dlord.PNG Change download folder: Changes the download folder for all selected NZBs.
    • Image:nzbplay.PNG Play: Plays the selected NZB if possible (please look at Setup->NZBplay for detailed infos).
    • Image:command.PNG Execute Command: Click to Set a command, which will be executed after download/checking/unraring. You can see the command in the execute column
    • Image:unrar.PNG Unrar: Click to activate unraring for the selected NZBs. (target is your default download folder or folder you set the nzb to unrar to)
    • Image:notunrar.PNG Do not Unrar: Click to deactivate unraring for the selected NZBs.
    • Image:passw.PNG Set password: If a NZB needs a password to unrar, then you can set it with this option.
    • Image:unrardir.PNG Change unrar folder: Click to change the unrar folder.
    • Image:Filter.PNG Filter: You can filter subjects including/excluding (press the green plus to toggle) the word you type into the field.
    • Image:Plus.PNG/Image:Minus.PNG expand/collapse: Here you can expand/collapse a NZB.
  • All options can also be chosen with a right click on one or more NZB(s).
  • Additional options with right click:
    • ETA on selected: Eta for selected NZB will be shown in statusbar on the bottom for ca. 3sec
    • Delete archives after unraring Toggles deleting after unraring for selected NZBs (overwrites setting in setup->unrar, for selected NZBs))
    • Toolbar visible: Hide/Show toolbar in download queue


Tab: PAR2

  • Unrar
    • You can see the unrar target here. The different icons stand for:
    • Image:winrarmp2.png This icon means that PAR2 set is marked for future unraring.
    • Image:winrarinprogressgs9.png Unraring of all rar sets from PAR2 set in progress.
    • Image:winrarfailwz2.png At least one of rar sets from PAR2 set failed unraring (damaged archive, file already exists...)
    • Image:winrarokbs9.png All rar sets from PAR2 set are successfully unrared.
  • Blocks
    • The first number shows the current number of blocks from the PAR2 Set. The second number is the needed number of blocks for this set.
  • Par2 Set
    • The name of the Set. The different icons stand for:
    • Image:par2oq4.png PAR2 set is incomplete (not enough blocks)
    • Image:torepairvv7.png PAR2 set is incomplete, but there are enough recovery blocks to repair it.
    • Image:repairingls6.png Repairing of PAR2 set in progress
    • Image:okiu8.png PAR2 set is checked & ok. Unraring will start shortly or is already finished.
    • Image:failedlm3.png Repairing of PAR2 set failed (99% par2.exe did not find enough blocks, Alt.Binz is able to detect more blocks then par2.exe. Either download manually a few more blocks, or repair with QuickPar. Check the log for the reason why the repair failed)
  • Progress
    • You can see the Progress here:
    • If the PAR2 Icon is red Image:par2oq4.png then you can't see anything there.
    • Image:Check.PNG Repair will start in a few minutes.
    • Image:Repairing.PNG Repair is in progress.
    • Image:Repsuccess.PNG Repairing is done, Alt.Binz prepares for unraring
    • Image:Unrar100.PNG Everything went fine. Your download is complete.
    • Note: If the file is big it can take some time to repair und unrar!


Tab: Log

  • All relevant infos what Alt.Binz does can be found here. If you have problems with Alt.Binz don't forget to copy needed lines to your bug report.
  • You can set options for logging under Setup -> Log


Tab: Newsgroups

  • This tab is only for selecting groups for XPAT search.
  • This is not header downloading!
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