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Hello! Long time user here but I have an issue that has stumped me for months now and I need to solve it!

I have two accounts on my Win10 PC - one admin (me) and one non-admin (wife). When my PC reboots, SABNZBd will start automatically. When it does, it loads without admin rights and I can tell the difference because the theme is dark. It will then process a queue (this queue is at least a year old) and will not delete the NZB files which basically creates and infinite loop and it downloads until my HDD is completely FULL (many TBs).

Once I shut it down, restart SABNZBd in admin mode, all is back to normal. I can process NZBs just fine, no rogue queue from last year.

I have searched and cannot find where this queue is located - I figured just deleting it manually as admin would fix this. I cannot find it.

I have uninstalled/reinstalled (just updated to 4.4.0).

Any ideas on how I can eliminate this old queue and/or solve the issue altogether? I created the shortcut to always run in admin mode but if I do not log on, then it will start in non-admin mode and that old queue will run.

Step 1: check the command used to start sabnzbd
If the command uses the -f parameter then this will point to the location and name of the used config file.
The portable version of SABnzbd uses this -f parameter.
This config file contains the relative and/or absolute path of all the other folders used.
If there is no -f parameter then follow step 2

Step 2: the config file used when starting sabnzbd will be in the default location: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini
This config file contains the relative and/or absolute path of all the other folders used.
Note that this location depends on the currently logged in user!

You can find/set these folders from within the program:
Go to SABnzbd Config tab: Folders, activate 'Advanced Settings'
Check especially the 'Default Base Folder' in 'User Folders' and 'System Folders'
Default all other folders are folders relative to these base folders, but these can be changed to absolute path for other locations.

Maybe you should run Sab as a service. Then it will always work the same way.
Just make sure to remove it from tour Startup programs.