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I have sabnzbd (0.6.6) running on an apple tv which works fine by itself but am having problems with a plugin for XBMC.

The plugin allows you to look up a nzb which then loads it into sabnzb to start the download. The plugin then allows you to watch the file as it downloads once the 1st & last .rar files have downloaded.

The download starts ok but the file never starts playing. I believe it is a permissions problem as the plugin requires read/write access to the incomplete folder.

All the folders created by sabnzbd have owner=root, but XBMC runs as owner=mobile. Is there a way to change the owner of sabnzbd? or allow read/write access for any owner to all the files/folders within the incomplete folder?

If you run SABnzbd as root, the folders will be owned by root.
So the message is: don't run it as root but under the same account as XBMC.

Thanks for the reply.

This is all new to me so could you explain how i run under the XMBX account?

I sorted out the Apple tv which now works but am trying to sort out the permissions of the incomplete folder on my iMac.

I did a chmod -R 0777 on the folder but when a new download starts the permissions stay as :drwxr-xr-x when i am after :drwxrwxrwx.

I read a post on here about changing a line in the SABnzbd.py file and the only SABnzbd.py file i can find is in Contents/resources which shows when i show package contents of the SABnzbd in the applications folder.

The line i changed was: os.umask(prev and int('077',8))

which i changed to: #os.umask(prev and int('077',8)) but didn't work, so tried changing to: os.umask(prev and int('000',8)) and that still doesn't work.

How can this be done?

You should not disable the line, but add the proper umask, so:
os.umask(prev and int('000',8))
The side effect will be that you expose the SABnzbd admin files, including sabnzbd.ini to all accounts.
Not sure if you want that.

I tried the correct umask but still get 'drwxr-xr-x' for the permissions on the folder.

Not too bothered about exposing the files for now...would just like to get it to work.

Isn't that good enough? Why do you need write access for the other accounts?

For some reason unknown to me yet, the only way i got the xbmc plugin to work on the apple tv was having full read/write access on all accounts.

I'm now trying to get this to work on my mac so would like the same permissions on the incomplete folder. I just dont know why it's not happening with the change made to SABnzbd.py and performing chmod -R 0777 on the folder.