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Hello I installed sabnzbd and start I become the Message :SABnzbd.exe 2.3.2 SABnzbd detected a fatal error: Cannot access the user profile. Please start with sabnzbd.ini file in another location Program did not start! What is wrong ?

UnicodeDecodeError:
'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 11: invalid start byte

Is there a ü (u with umlaut) in your user name? Or in your path?
And you're on Windows, right?

Did you use earlier versions of SAB on your Windows system? Which version? Did that work?

Yes , my Windows 10 User Profilename has a "ü" ! Must i change the Username ? Its difficult and Tricky to change it, earlier Versions do also not work.
What can i do now ?

I'm surprised; I thought SAB on Windows could handle a ü in a username.

So I tried, and I can put my sab-confing into directory umlaut-jürgen. No problem

So something strange is going on.

Are you good with the command line? If so, maybe you can do this as a workaround

Open a CMD (terminal) window in Windows
Find and go into the directory with sabnzbd-console.exe
Then do this:
With c:\blabla\ a directory that is writable and has no special characters

PS C:\sharing\SABnzbd> SABnzbd-console.exe --config-file c:\blabla\myconfig.ini
SABnzbd-console.exe : Die Benennung "SABnzbd-console.exe" wurde nicht als Name eines Cmdlet, einer Funktion, einer
Skriptdatei oder eines ausführbaren Programms erkannt. Überprüfen Sie die Schreibweise des Namens, oder ob der Pfad
korrekt ist (sofern enthalten), und wiederholen Sie den Vorgang.
In Zeile:1 Zeichen:1
+ SABnzbd-console.exe --config-file c:\blabla\myconfig.ini
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (SABnzbd-console.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException


Suggestion [3,General]: Der Befehl SABnzbd-console.exe wurde nicht gefunden. Er ist jedoch am aktuellen Ort vorhanden. Windows PowerShell lädt Befehle nicht standardmäßig vom aktuellen Ort. Wenn Sie diesem Befehl vertrauen, geben Sie stattdessen ".\SABnzbd-console.exe" ein. Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie unter "get-help about_Command_Precedence".

It dosnt work :-(

The Log at Moment :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "SABnzbd.py", line 1701, in <module>
File "SABnzbd.py", line 1236, in main
File "sabnzbd\decorators.pyo", line 36, in call_func
File "sabnzbd\__init__.pyo", line 321, in initialize
File "sabnzbd\bpsmeter.pyo", line 190, in read
File "sabnzbd\bpsmeter.pyo", line 149, in defaults
File "sabnzbd\decorators.pyo", line 36, in call_func
File "sabnzbd\database.pyo", line 86, in __init__
File "sabnzbd\database.pyo", line 91, in connect
sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file

If you use powershell you should use: But the c:\blablashould be really an existing folder, not actually "blabla".

Perfect ! Thank you ! It works now !