Quade wrote:There's an issue when the names are too short. Not what the names are.
Very probably a related issue, but after upgrading to B8, one of my watch folders was being "automagically" deleted from the .NBI's [NZBWATCH] list on startup. BTW, it disappeared simultaneously from ALL the .NBI's at the same time after only one run of Newsbin, including the .BAK & .OLD!
The configuration entry (AddTop, DownloadPath, etc) for the watch folder always remained present & untouched.
I simply could not figure out what the {bleep} was going on. I tried deleting & recreating the folders on the drive in case there was some whacky corruption or junctioning or attributes or something. Nope. I manually created the entries in the .NBI, but they were "automagically" deleted again from EVERY .NBI whenever I loaded Newsbin.
Finally, I was about to roll back versions when I came here and read your comment above.
Well, well... my vanishing watch folder was called "TV" in the NZB Options tab, pointing to a folder called "!T!". Renaming the folder on the drive to "!TTTTTTTTT!" had no effect.
However, renaming the watch folder under NZB Options to "TeeVee" stopped it from being automatically deleted on startup! Pretty much the "too short" issue, I think.
I reckon you have multiple things to investigate:
1) Non-null strings being too short to be used
2) User settings being deleted from their configurations without notice
3) .NBI backups that actually backup previous states