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Why would want one want to install sabnzbd as a service? And is there a disadvantage of doing this in any way?

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shypike wrote:Automatically started, independent of who is logged in.

Ok. Well, I'm looking at this: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/sabnzbd-as-a-windows-service

It says that it will not use the inf file in the user profile and that makes sense but where would it save its settings? If I install it as a service now, will it copy the current settings? What is the use of the update service?

You have to explicitly set a location for the INI file.
"Update" means that you can set another location.
Windows stores this info in the registry.

shypike wrote:You have to explicitly set a location for the INI file.
"Update" means that you can set another location.
Windows stores this info in the registry.

Set another location of what when using the update? The ini file?

If I just go ahead and install the service, it stores all current info in the registry and I don't need to change anything?

kevindd992002 wrote: Set another location of what when using the update? The ini file?

Yes of course.

If I just go ahead and install the service, it stores all current info in the registry and I don't need to change anything?

No, most goes into the INI file.

Because the service is not bound to a user account, SABnzbd cannot store the INI file in a user profile,
therefor you must come up with a location where it can be stored.

shypike wrote:

kevindd992002 wrote: Set another location of what when using the update? The ini file?

Yes of course.

If I just go ahead and install the service, it stores all current info in the registry and I don't need to change anything?

No, most goes into the INI file.

Because the service is not bound to a user account, SABnzbd cannot store the INI file in a user profile,
therefor you must come up with a location where it can be stored.

How do I let it know where the ini file is located?

EDIT: I see that there's a required "path" when installing sab as a service. Is that pertaining to the ini file?

kevindd992002 wrote: EDIT: I see that there's a required "path" when installing sab as a service. Is that pertaining to the ini file?

Yes

shypike wrote:

kevindd992002 wrote: EDIT: I see that there's a required "path" when installing sab as a service. Is that pertaining to the ini file?

Yes

Should it be the full path, including the ini file itself or just the directory where that ini is located? So the ini contains all the settings of sab, as in all of them?

The full path to the folder in which the INI file resides
or the full path of the INI file itself.
In the former case the file will get the standard name sabnzbd.ini

shypike wrote:The full path to the folder in which the INI file resides
or the full path of the INI file itself.
In the former case the file will get the standard name sabnzbd.ini

Alright. Correct me if I'm wrong, so I just install sab as a service and specify the location of the ini file and then just overwrite it with the one I currently have to retain the settings?

Yes.

shypike wrote:Yes.

What will this do to the other files (aside from the sabnzbd.ini) in the user appdata folder?

All admin folders will be placed in the folder that holds the INI file.
You can look all of this up here:
http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/command-line-parameters