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Hi Guys

I was a regular user of NZBD on ubuntu - now in windows 7 64 bit it's installed but wont start - I get error message saying see nzbd.exe.log
this is in the log:

WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 'C:\\Users\\?Dan'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "SABnzbd.py", line 1709, in <module>
File "SABnzbd.py", line 1029, in main
File "os.pyo", line 164, in makedirs
File "os.pyo", line 164, in makedirs
File "os.pyo", line 164, in makedirs
File "os.pyo", line 171, in makedirs

Any ideas please? Thanks very much.

tmentira wrote:
I was a regular user of NZBD on ubuntu - now in windows 7 64 bit it's installed but wont start - I get error message saying see nzbd.exe.log
this is in the log:

What is NZBD? Do you mean SABnzbd?

tmentira wrote:
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 'C:\\Users\\?Dan'
Traceback (most recent call last):

Well ... the error says me there is something wrong with 'C:\\Users\\?Dan'. So: why the question mark before Dan? Is there a special, non-US-ASCII character? Or no writing rights?

SABnzbd has problems reading your user profile due to an odd character in your user name.
Work-around:
Start it (always) like this:
"c:\program files (x86)\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.exe" -f c:\my\folder
where "c:\my\folder" is where you want SABnzbd to store its admin stuff.