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I dont know for sure if its a thing SABNZBD does but I have this Mac Mini, it runs SABNZBD. Complete and incomplete folders are on an external drive, so far, everything works. After a reboot however the path/name of the external drive changes, where it was ...My Book now it is ...My Book 2, 3, 4 and so forth. When this happens SABNZBD will map a folder on the internal HDD and download there, but (of course) it needs to download to the external HDD. The external drive is connected through USB, will connecting with Firewire make any difference?

Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

I strongly suspect SABNZBD because if it is not running, it does not skip from one name to another.

External drives need to be mounted on the local filesystem.
When at the time SABnzbd starts, the drive isn't mounted,
SABnzbd will create a local folder on the mount point.
This is because it isn't aware about the difference between a mounted drive
and an ordinary folder.
We will try to catch such a mounting error in future releases.
Make sure that the drive is mounted (and stays mounted) when SABnzbd starts.
The question why OSX uses varying names, I cannot answer.
SABnzbd does require a stable path name, it has no influence on
how the OS decides to mount the drive and also cannot find out about this.

BTW: it's better to have the "incomplete" folder on the local drive.

Allright, cheers for the prompt answer. I will put the incomplete on the internal drive.

Ill be searching now to see how to (auto)mount in osx.

Or, what if i start SABNZBD manually, will that help? So first the drive will mount in OSX so SABNZBD can find it.

This is the safe route indeed.
BTW: SABnzbd still requires a fixed path, it cannot "search" for the path.
We hope to make this a little easier in the future
by at least detecting that there is an issue.

I read on the Apple forum that a simple way to (quickly?) mount a drive is dragging it to the login preferences. In OSX you can auto-launch programs from there, seems you van also automount volumes. Maybe this works, I will find out tonight and share my experiences with it.

It seems to work as a charm now!

Good to hear that.
I'll add it to our FAQ list.