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swholst
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How to completely remove??

Post by swholst »

Hey everyone,

When I was in the middle of installing sabnzbd the power went out and I had to reboot  >:(!. Now whenever I try to start it, it keeps asking for a username and password...

I tried removing the program and starting fresh, but it keeps asking for a password in order to continue...how can I fix this? How do I completely remove everything to start fresh??

Any help is greatly appreciated!
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shypike
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Re: How to completely remove??

Post by shypike »

Stop SABnzbd.
Find the sabnzbd.ini file (look here for instructions: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-v2 )
Open the file with a text editor (like Notepad).
Find the fields "username" and "password".
swholst
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Re: How to completely remove??

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I can't seem to find the file that you mentioned  :(, the folder doesn't seem to exist in that location.

I tried searching for it and found a few other folders named sabnzbdplus, but they don't appear to have the correct .ini file.

What should I do? (sorry, I am quite new to Ubuntu).
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sander
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Re: How to completely remove??

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swholst wrote: I can't seem to find the file that you mentioned  :(, the folder doesn't seem to exist in that location.

I tried searching for it and found a few other folders named sabnzbdplus, but they don't appear to have the correct .ini file.

What should I do? (sorry, I am quite new to Ubuntu).
Open a Terminal with CTRL + ALT + T
then type

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rm ~/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini

and press ENTER.

Then start SABnzbd again.
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swholst
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Re: How to completely remove??

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It worked, thank you both!  ;D
johndoe82a
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Re: How to completely remove??

Post by johndoe82a »

It's because the folder is hidden, I'm assuming you are running gnome, in nautilus you can right click and there's an option called Show hidden files, it's also in a menu at the top I think (view - show hidden files? ; I'm not on a Linux operating system right now so not sure). When a folder has a period/dot in front of it (.sabnzbd), it becomes hidden.
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