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SABnzbd uses the listed environment variables to locate the user profile. If the variables have the wrong value, SABnzbd will be looking at the wrong location. I still maintain that your account renaming isn't complete. There is a work-around possible, but then you need to modify the shortcut used ...

The default location is this: c:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini Check the user environment variables like: APPDATA=C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local USERNAME=xxx USERPROFILE=C:\Users\xxx The thing is I already deleted the everything in the c:\Users\xx...

How do you start SABnzbd? Somehow it looks like the user name is hard-coded in the sabnzbd.ini file. That's normally not case, unless you set that in Config->Folders. I have start on start up or I use the short cut on my desktop, I even tried using the .exe straight from the folder and still get th...

It does look like you didn't also adjust permissions. Is the new name "Computer-Expert-2"? No the new name is different, "Computer-Expert-2" is the old name. If I right click on sabnzbd.exe and run as admin it will open and just create a new folder in my users called, "Comp...

shypike wrote:How did you change your account name?
In Windows it's not possible to change the base name (as used in in c:\users),
only the "fancy" name that shows in the login screen.

I had to edit the registry using a different admin account.

I needed to change my account name and profile folder for win7 and now everytime I got to startup Sabnzbd I get an, 'error occurred'. I have tried to uninstall/reinstall and still not fixed. See error log below: Traceback (most recent call last): File "SABnzbd.py", line 1808, in <module> F...