package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "real-debrid-downloader",
-  "version": "1.7.100",
+  "version": "1.7.99",
   "description": "Desktop downloader",
   "main": "build/main/main/main.js",
   "author": "Sucukdeluxe",

src/main/download-manager.ts

@@ -5868,9 +5868,10 @@ export class DownloadManager extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   private async acquirePostProcessSlot(packageId: string): Promise<void> {
-    // Honor the user-facing "Parallele Entpackungen" setting for package-level
-    // post-processing so multiple episodes/packages can extract concurrently.
-    const maxConcurrent = Math.max(1, Math.min(8, this.settings.maxParallelExtract || 1));
+    // Extract packages sequentially (one at a time) to focus I/O on finishing
+    // the earliest package first. maxParallelExtract is reserved for future
+    // intra-package parallelism.
+    const maxConcurrent = 1;
     if (this.packagePostProcessActive < maxConcurrent) {
       this.packagePostProcessActive += 1;
       return;

tests/download-manager.test.ts

@@ -243,42 +243,6 @@ describe("download manager", () => {
     expect((manager as any).shouldCollapseQuickPostProcessRequeue(packageId)).toBe(false);
   });
 
-  it("honors maxParallelExtract for concurrent post-process slots", async () => {
-    const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "rd-postprocess-slots-"));
-    tempDirs.push(root);
-
-    const manager = new DownloadManager(
-      {
-        ...defaultSettings(),
-        token: "rd-token",
-        maxParallelExtract: 4
-      },
-      emptySession(),
-      createStoragePaths(path.join(root, "state"))
-    );
-
-    await (manager as any).acquirePostProcessSlot("pkg-1");
-    await (manager as any).acquirePostProcessSlot("pkg-2");
-    await (manager as any).acquirePostProcessSlot("pkg-3");
-    await (manager as any).acquirePostProcessSlot("pkg-4");
-
-    expect((manager as any).packagePostProcessActive).toBe(4);
-
-    let fifthResolved = false;
-    const fifth = (manager as any).acquirePostProcessSlot("pkg-5").then(() => {
-      fifthResolved = true;
-    });
-
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 30));
-    expect(fifthResolved).toBe(false);
-
-    (manager as any).releasePostProcessSlot();
-    await fifth;
-
-    expect(fifthResolved).toBe(true);
-    expect((manager as any).packagePostProcessActive).toBe(4);
-  });
-
   it("extractNow only re-arms completed items that are not already extracted", () => {
     const root = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "rd-extract-now-"));
     tempDirs.push(root);