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Since I updated to the most recent version, when I load an NZB file which contains only another NZB file (or the download instructions thereof) sabnzbd loads the contents of the NZB file with filename of the first file. For example, if I get an NZB file from binsearch it will have the name of the search I used to find it, or a timestamp if I am selecting it from a "browse" of a user or newsgroup.

For example, if I load a file named 1345360628.nzb it contains the instructions to download this: In previous version of sabnzbd I'd expect to see a new download under the name "The.X.Factor.UK.S09E01.720p.HDTV.x264-KNiFESHARP" but instead I see this:

This is a big deal. My post processing script (which doesn't work either, but that's another thread) needs to see properly named folders or files in the base directory in order to rename them and put them in the right folder.

SABnzbd works as designed in this case.
Not every indexer produces properly named NZB files
and the assumption is that you gave the initial NZB a proper name.
A design decision here can go either way and in this case it doesn't go in the direction that you like.
I see no immediate solution, because always using the new NZB name
is just as arbitrary and will not please all users either.
Any creative suggestions?

Has sabnzbd been taken over by new developers? This response is maddening. Never before in my years of using the program has it behaved so poorly. For the entirety of its existence, downloading an nzb file will actually load the contained nzb file with the name of the file. This is BRAND NEW behavior.

Same developers and this was changed some time ago,
because the old behaviour was due to a bug in the code.
When first implemented it had the current behaviour, which got
killed later due to a bug, which was subsequently fixed.
Of course for you it was a feature.