It seems like a lot of people have asked this question.  I have read all of the responses and watched the Space Invader videos (which unfortunately are out of date so didn't solve my problem).  Still can't figure this out.  I am sure when someone points it out it will obvious, but it isn't now.

 

Radarr gives me this error:

 

"You are using docker; download client SABnzbd places downloads in /config/Downloads/complete but this directory does not appear to exist inside the container. Review your remote path mappings and container volume settings."

 

I want to change SABNZBD to point to my share called media that has a Downloads folder and a complete and incomplete folder within it.

 

Can't navigate in the browse in SABNZBD folder configuration - I assumed it would be under MNT/User/ but nothing shows under MNT in browse.

 

Here is what I put in Docker setup for SABNZBD:

 

 

 

In SABNZBD I see this - of course it is defaulting /config

 

 

As noted, when I browse I can't find the mnt/user/media/ folder.  What do I do to correct this?

If you are browsing within the docker you’ll see the container path. /downloads or /incomplete-downloads. That’s what you’ll want to set in Sab.

In SAB, you've set the downloads location to be Downloads/incomplete.  Since this is a relative path, it's being stored within /config/Downloads/incomplete (which maps to /mnt/user/appdata/sabnzbd/incomplete

 

You want to set the downloads folder to be /Downloads/incomplete  That way it'll map to /mnt/user/Media/Downloads/incomplete

 

Do the same for the completed downloads folder

@Squid Thanks for the reply.  So when I update the location to /Downloads/incomplete it gives me the error "Cannot create directory /Downloads/incomplete".  I tried doing this with and without the directory already created.  So not sure what to do from here?

 

Never mind - I looked through some more posts and realized my docker settings were mixing case and not matching.  So I got it working.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Edited November 5, 20223 yr by The Transplant

On 11/5/2022 at 4:12 PM, The Transplant said:

@Squid Thanks for the reply.  So when I update the location to /Downloads/incomplete it gives me the error "Cannot create directory /Downloads/incomplete".  I tried doing this with and without the directory already created.  So not sure what to do from here?

 

Never mind - I looked through some more posts and realized my docker settings were mixing case and not matching.  So I got it working.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I am having the same issue can you share a write-up/ screenshot of the changes you had to make for it to work?

On 11/15/2025 at 7:10 AM, Derotron said:

I am having the same issue can you share a write-up/ screenshot of the changes you had to make for it to work?

Here is my configuration:

/mnt/user/media/downloads → /downloads (completed downloads)

/mnt/user/media/incomplete → /incomplete-downloads (incomplete downloads)

/mnt/user/appdata/sabnzbd → /config (configuration)

I can post more if that doesn't help.