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SABnzbd uses NNTP access.

HTH

I'm not sure if this is possible, but is there any way to stop uploading from happening after/during a NZB is being downloaded? I'm on a college network that doesn't like P2P traffic, and also they ban using your MAC address. As long as I'm here, how can I be sure my MAC address doesn't get tracked...

Do you have universe and multiverse enabled as repositories? You can do it via the Software Center.

So, did you "sudo apt-get install sabnzbdplus" (which is needed), or did you download the tar-gzip-file?

What's the exact speed reported by SABnzbd? And you do know the difference between MBps and Mbps?

EDIT: SABnzbd reports MBps, whereas your ISP uses Mbps. There's a factor 10 between them. So a 30 Mbps Internet connections will give you a SABnzbd 3 MBps speed.

Rhowells wrote:Sorry, I meant I got the message from sabnzbd in the browser window when I started it, after having created a dummy .ini.

Can you post the error message as text and as a screendump? I'm surprised you get the error message in a browser window.

Rhowells wrote:I created a blank one but got the exact same error message

So it's a message from the Operating System (Windows) or your virus scanner, and not SABnzbd. You should try to solve it in the Operating System or virus scanner. Check the rights, or turn off your virus scanner temporarily.

Can you manually create / edit the file %userprofile%\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini ?

I guess the post's out of the retention of your newsprovider, and/or your newsprovider is not carrying that newsgroup.

If you do a (manual) retry, will that result in a successful download? If so, is it a brand new upload, and where you too early to download? If not, I wonder how the retry can go OK ...

Gimlei wrote:
Just wondering, is there any way to detect this earlier and show a warning to the user?

Wasn't SABnzbd warning you in the upper left corner with "Warning: <blabla>"?

If not, you will certainly see "missing from all servers" in the sabnzbd.log.

Using Firefox 7.0.1, but just tried it in IE 9 and same issue - speed shows up as zero. Is it an old post, out of your provider's retention? Because if that's the case, SAB will show the behaviour you see. And the MBs 'passing' are fake; it's only an indication SAB is working its way through the NZ...

Brute force:

Stop SABnzbd
Rename (or remove) the directory structure C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\sabnzbd
Maybe also rename (or remove) sabnzbd.ini
Start SABnzbd

shypike wrote:Try starting up with --clean as an extra option one time.

Will that take care of "C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\admin\running.sab missing"

What's the size of C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini ? And can you open it in an editor (notepad) and does it show normal content? What happens if you stop SABnzbd, rename / move C:\Users\Aaron\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini , then start SABnzbd, fillout the wizard, and restart SAB...