migrating settings when using SABnzbd as a service

[pcgirl]

I am currently setting up an Unraid server and I want to migrate my Sabnzbd, sickbeard and couchpotato settings and databases. Upon looking for the correct info I discovered something interesting that I thought I would pass on. When I pulled up the sabnzbd.ini file that I found in the Users\Appdata\Local\Sabnzbd directory with Notepad++, I discovered that it did not contain current settings that I was using in SAB. Sure enough, the date on the file was from over a year ago. So I was really puzzled as to where my ini file was on my windows 7 PC which I am currently using. Well upon further investigation, I discovered that all the files for Sabnzbd where under C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\sabnzbd. I found this very strange, so I did a google search on C:\Windows\sysWOW64 and discovered that this is where the config files are kept for programs that are run as a service. Since I had setup SABnzbd as a windows service this made sense. Now if I had just copied over the files from the Users\Appdata\Local\Sabnzbd directory, I would not have had the correct files. Just thought someone might find this helpful.

[shypike]

When you setup SABnzbd as a service, you must give it an -f parameter
telling it where to find the sabnzbd.ini file.

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SABnzbd-service.exe -f <path> install

So you specified where the file was.