You got a three hour time limit until it expires.
Beforehand expiration, you better hit PAUSE on NZBGet or you’ll receive fails.
These affect the “health” of the file. Once health falls below 90%, it’s all over, Barney.
I didn’t know NZBGet would do that after expiry of the 3-hour Free-Usenet account. Ideally, it should realise that the news server password is no longer valid and warn you, rather than assume the files are all broken. Or perhaps it’s an issue with Free-Usenet sending incorrect information. I’ll try to let the developer know about this issue.
Having had a look, there seems to be a workaround for now. If the health drops below the threshold needed for the Par2 recovery (usually around 90%), the file is automatically moved to “History” and the status changed to “Failure” as you have discovered. From here:
- Renew your password in Free-Usenet for another 3 hours.
- Enter the new password in NZBGet’s news server settings.
- Click on “Save all changes” followed by “Reload NZBGet”.
- Click on the “History” tab and find the failed download.
- Click on “Failure” and select “Retry failed articles”.
JEDIT: I have added section 5 to my guide with the above details.