Download Folder Location Keeps Reseting

[djgray88]

Hey Guys,

I keep changing the download folder location to an external drive. In my case "/media/My Book/Downloads/complete".

However when I restart it always resets to the default location. I've tried changing it through the GUI and by editing the sabnzbd.ini file.

I'm running Jolicloud which is an modified Ubuntu distro.

All help is greatly appreciated.

[shypike]

Make sure the external drive is mounted before SABnzbd is started.

[djgray88]

I think the problem is that sabnzbd is starting on start up before the the drive is mounting.

How do you stop it launching at start up?

Thanks again for your help.

[shypike]

Depends on how you installed it.
Don't know much about autostart in Linux, so I'm moving this subject to the Ubuntu/Debian board.

[djgray88]

Cheers shypike.

For the linux guys out there; I installed it with the method on the sabnzbd homepage.

That installed version 0.4.9 I think it was. Then my distro automatically updated it to 0.5.1RC2.

[jcfp]

I think the problem is that sabnzbd is starting on start up before the the drive is mounting.

How do you stop it launching at start up?

Thanks again for your help.

See here. Just step 1 in that post is enough to disable auto-startup on boot; the rest discusses possible solutions to your problem.

[djgray88]

Thanks jcfp. Not sure how I missed that thread.

I'm a linux n00b. What format should I save the script as?

Also the terminal returned

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 System startup links for /etc/init.d/sabnzbdplus already exist.

When I entered

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sudo update-rc.d sabnzbdplus stop 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 .

Is that a problem?

[jcfp]

Try:

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sudo update-rc.d -f sabnzbdplus remove; sudo update-rc.d sabnzbdplus stop 02 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 .

[djgray88]

Returns

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 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/sabnzbdplus ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K02sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc1.d/K02sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc2.d/K02sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc3.d/K02sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc4.d/K02sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc5.d/K02sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc6.d/K02sabnzbdplus
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/sabnzbdplus ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K02sabnzbdplus -> ../init.d/sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc1.d/K02sabnzbdplus -> ../init.d/sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc2.d/K02sabnzbdplus -> ../init.d/sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc3.d/K02sabnzbdplus -> ../init.d/sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc4.d/K02sabnzbdplus -> ../init.d/sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc5.d/K02sabnzbdplus -> ../init.d/sabnzbdplus
   /etc/rc6.d/K02sabnzbdplus -> ../init.d/sabnzbdplus

[jcfp]

All Kxx links, that means it's disable in all runlevels which is what you want.

[djgray88]

Ah ok great.

What format/extension do I need to save the script as?

[jcfp]

What format/extension do I need to save the script as?

Just a simple text file, extension doesn't matter.

[djgray88]

Doesn't seem to be working. Doesn't launch by itself. When I launch via terminal it still has default locations.

Now that it's not launching on startup I guess it will save the changes though. Which should be good enough.

Will try again tomorrow. Is time to hit the hay.

Thanks again for all your help.