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Everytime SabNZBd is restarted or shutdown all passwords entered in the NZB name with a "/" are gone and the nzbs are set to pauze with ENCRYPTED before the name. This means that if I have a large queue and shut down I need to lookup and re-enter all passwords, which is quite the pain.

This is probably caused by not properly terminating SABnzbd.
If you use the normal shutdown, passswords are preserved.
A blunt termination or restart may loose passwords because they weren't saved to disk yet.

Hi shypike,

I am not sure if I do what you mean. I dont shutdown SabNZBd with the shutdown button, but shutdown my PC. That means SabNZBd receives a proper shutdown message which should trigger a normal shutdown and should not be considered a blunt shutdown or restart. Do note it stores everything else without issues. Please clarify what you mean?

Cheers

mano3m wrote:That means SabNZBd receives a proper shutdown message which should trigger a normal shutdown

Windows will send a shutdown message to SABnzbd, but most of the time it's too impatient to wait
for a proper termination of SABnzbd.
This is especially true when you shutdown the PC in the middle of a download or (worse)
in the middle of a post-processing job.
The only way around this, is to install SABnzbd as a Windows service.

I can alleviate the problem a bit by saving the job administration to disk when you set a password,
but that will not solve other potential side-effects.