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Had this come up today, on .16 and .17 and now nothing will download! Any ideas?


SABnzbd detected a fatal error:
"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini" is not a valid configuration file
Error message: Invalid line at line "1".

Specify a correct file or delete this file.

Program did not start!

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I don't actually have the specified folder. I have uninstalled sab and put it back on, and also tried both versions with the same result.

Your sabnzbd.ini file has become corrupt.
Inspect it with Notepad (or something similar).
Location: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-0-7
In the worst case you need to remove that file and reconfigure SABnzbd.

Thanks for the reply. I can't even get sab to open to try and re-configure it. I don't have the folder where the error is. Never had this problem before with any version. Is there anyway to install this missing folder by itself?

It's not a missing folder, but a corrupt INI file.
The file is located where the Wiki page says it is, although the folder might be hidden.
Without removing that file (sabnzbd.ini) SABnzbd will not start.

Got there in the end. I had to do a search for "sabnzbd.ini" on my whole C drive, but there were 2 ini files hidden that I deleted, and it all works lovely again. Thanks for the help shypike.

Where were those files located?

I'm using Windows 8, so they were in c/users/user/sabnzbd but I couldn't find them until I did a search of C drive. It may have just been me looking in the wrong place or they were hidden. It looks like it was a program at 0620 yesterday morning that didn't d/l correctly that caused the error.