Not sure what happened but NzbDrone.exe is no longer in opt/NzbDrone folder? there’s a folder in there as of 11/14 called NzbDrone.update. Any help is appreciated!
disclaimer: i suck at linux
Are there any other files in /optNzbDrone? Should be LOTS.
If not, I think you ran into the same issue I did w/ updating from webgui. It wiped all my files. Annoying, but recoverable.
Check and see if you have ~/.config/NzbDrone with a back ups sub-folder. If so, you’ll be able to back up easy.
If you need to recover (from a debian/ubuntu based system) “sudo apt-get install --reinstall nzbdrone”
That will put it back.
“sudo chmod a+rw /opt/NzbDrone” will fix the issue of being able to update from web gui (probably there is a better solution).
Start nzbdrone - see if it saved your settings.
If it did, yay! Done!
If not, you’ll need to delete all the files in ~/.config/NzbDrone (NOT the subfolders) and restore from one of your back ups.
BTW, for moving around in the file system I recommend midnight commander (mc). “sudo apt-get install mc” will add it.
Thanks! thought i would try to reinstall first, but i go tthis error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nzbdrone : Depends: libmono-cil-dev (>= 3.10) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I checked and there is a Backups subfolder in there, not sure how to restore it though?
Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file and make sure it has the updated address for sonarr (says sonarr, not nzbdrone). It’s available on the wiki if you need it.
Then try again to reinstall.
Restoration is manual. mc will treat the zips like folders, so it’s easy to copy files out of them. 
awesome, thanks for your help. gonna give it a shot now.
Well, i don’t really know what i did but i kept trying to upgrade mono after spending the last two days compiliing and trying to install mono 3.6 three times, mine still says mono 3.2. I followed the instructions exactly…
However, i don’t get any error when reinstalling nzbdrone, so I was able to get that up and running again.
Does anyone have any ideas on the issue with mono…
Hmm okay, does that still apply though if i used method 2/3 for upstart? I’ve been running NZBdrone for a long time now and never had a problem like this (not sure if there were updates in between but i imagine there were).
But for now i turned off the automatic updating within the UI.
Disable respawn in the upstart config
#respawn will break the built-in updating, if you wish to enable respawn you need to make sure updates are disabled within the UI
#respawn
Thanks Markus. I used methods 2/3 for the upstart, does this apply there as well? In any case, i disabled automatic update from the UI
Method 2: LSB style init-script (Debian/Ubuntu) ?
If so, not to my knowledge, but it could have a similar issue.
thank you for this ! i had the same issue with updating although it says updating can happen and start downloading i went to /opt/NzbDrone and the directory was empty with only UI available.
i run sudo apt-get install --reinstall nzbdrone and everything came up fine.
damn!