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Anyone know what could keep SABnzbd from loading? It was working just fine... I came from newsleecher and this is 1000x better! My problem now is that it doesn't load... I open it and I'll get the wait cursor for a split second and it will go away. I check my tasks and sabnzbd isn't running. I can't bring up the web interface. It just completely stopped working. I've also tried uninstalling and re-installing.

Any help is highly appreciated.

PS. I am on Vista x64

Well I solved the problem. If you use categories with titles enclosed in brackets (example: "[a.p.p.z]"), your settings file once saved and reloaded will be considered not valid.

The way we handle incorrect INI files is far from ideal.
We're working on a better solution.

The reason brackets [] are not allowed is that we use the ancient Windows INI file format.
This format has lots of restrictions, so we will dump it sometime in the future.

BTW: didn't you see something like this in the web browser?

Maybe XML a solution for the future?

Very likely.

shypike wrote: The way we handle incorrect INI files is far from ideal.
We're working on a better solution.

The reason brackets [] are not allowed is that we use the ancient Windows INI file format.
This format has lots of restrictions, so we will dump it sometime in the future.

BTW: didn't you see something like this in the web browser?

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"sabnzbd.ini" is not a valid configuration file.
Specify a correct file or delete this file.

Nope, I didn't even know there was an error until I ran SABnzbd - Safemode.

Strange, because (unless you have auto browser launch disabled)
you should get a browser window with the error message.