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I have just set up sabnbd and am running into an error.
I am getting Repairing failed, [Error 206] The filename or extension is too long
The path to the folders is C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\Documents\downloads\incomplete, C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\Documents\downloads\complete
The particular files I am having an issue would look like this C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\Documents\downloads\incomplete\Thunderstone - 1x06 - The Lion\Thunderstone_S01E06_TheLion.mpg.262
Total 115 characters..
I have edited the .ini to change the max directory length to 254 and restarted and still receive the error.
Any ideas? Am I being boneheaded and missing something?

Thanks

254 is the part that SABnzbd can see, without what's inside the RAR file itself.
Inspect the RAR files manually.

Hmm. Thanks. I'll have to keep that in mind. Problem with that here though is that they are not rars. It's simply a split file.. Like this..
foo.mpg.000
foo.mpg.001
etc..
pars were made for these files..
pars are good, I can manually quickpar and repair/rejoin (no actual repair just rejoin is needed)
to turn it into foo.mpg

Sorry to resurrect such an ancient thread, but I've just come across this bug with regards to split files (avi's), already unpacked from the RARs, in SABnzbd 0.6.14 on Windows 7. Sometimes the error is "Error [Error 206] The filename or extension is too long while running par2_repair on set foo" and on others it's "Error [Error 87] The parameter is incorrect while running par2_repair on set bar". Like the OP, I've also set folder_max_length to 254.

The 254 is the max size per path element, therefor it has no effect.
You need to set the value to something like 64.