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NZB Hunt Folders

Temporary Folder

In-progress downloads are stored here until finished.

Completed Categories

Categories are auto-generated from Movie Hunt and TV Hunt instances (e.g. Movies-Movie_Star, TV-Movie_Star). Required for NZB Hunt, SABnzbd, and NZBGet. Folders are created automatically.

Done adding servers? Continue to the next step in the Setup Guide.

Usenet Servers

Add your Usenet provider connections. Servers are tried in priority order (lower number = higher priority).

What is a Usenet server?
A Usenet server is where NZB downloads are actually fetched from. You need a subscription to a Usenet provider (e.g. Easynews, Newshosting, Frugal Usenet). Your provider will give you a host, port, username, and password to connect.
Tip: Multiple servers
You can add multiple servers for better completion rates. Use Priority 0 for your main provider and a higher number for backfill/block accounts. Same-priority servers work in parallel; lower priority is used as fallback.
Add Server

Performance Tuning

Fine-tune download performance, CPU usage, and resource limits. These settings help balance speed against system load.

Number of threads used to read and decode download data. Lower values reduce CPU usage; higher values may improve download speed on fast connections.

A small delay added between data reads to reduce CPU load. Higher values use less CPU but may reduce download speed. Value of 10 = 1ms. Set to 0 only if max connections don't reach full speed.

Maximum number of simultaneous unpack operations. Limits disk I/O strain when multiple downloads finish at once. Increase on fast storage (SSD/NVMe), decrease on slower drives.

Download Protection

Control how downloads are filtered and validated to prevent wasting bandwidth on bad or oversized NZBs.

Downloads exceeding this size are automatically paused with low priority. Useful for preventing unexpectedly large grabs. Set to 0 for no limit.

K / M / G

Downloads with availability below this percentage are aborted early via pre-check. A perfect download with 10% par2 files is 110%. Anything below 100% is unrepairable by definition.

How many times to retry when fetching an NZB from an indexer fails. Each retry waits progressively longer (60s, 120s, 180s…). Only applies to temporary server errors.

Processing

Configure how NZB Hunt handles downloads, retries, and connection behavior.

Maximum number of retry attempts per article per server.

When during download it becomes clear that too much data is missing, abort the job.

Abort download when this percentage of articles is missing.

Posts will be paused until they are at least this age (minutes). Setting job priority to Force will skip the delay.

mins

Disconnect from Usenet server(s) when queue is empty or paused.

Duplicate Detection

Reject downloads that are byte-for-byte identical to an item already in the queue. Uses NZB content hash.

Reject downloads that match the same release (by filename analysis). Detects same movie/episode from different indexers.

Bypass smart duplicate detection when PROPER, REAL, or REPACK is detected in the new download name. Allows upgrades.

Post-Processing

Configure unpacking, encrypted RAR handling, and unwanted file filtering.

Jobs will start unpacking during downloading. Only works for jobs that do not need repair.

In case of “Pause”, you'll need to set a password and resume the job.

Comma-separated list of unwanted file extensions. For example: exe, com, bat

File Browser

Must be empty to delete.