diff --git a/documentation/phase3/sabnzbd.md b/documentation/phase3/sabnzbd.md
index 9b17f304..8f5eec85 100644
--- a/documentation/phase3/sabnzbd.md
+++ b/documentation/phase3/sabnzbd.md
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ interface SABnzbdConfig {
 
 **Queue vs History:**
 - **Queue:** Active downloads (downloading, queued, paused)
-- **History:** Completed or failed downloads
+- **History:** Post-processing (Verifying, Repairing, Extracting, Moving, Running), then Completed or Failed
 
 **Monitoring Flow:**
 1. Check queue for NZB ID
@@ -181,7 +181,9 @@ interface SABnzbdConfig {
 - `Paused` → Manually paused
 - `Extracting/Unpacking` → Post-processing extraction
 - `Repairing/Verifying` → Post-processing par2 repair
-- `Completed` → Successfully downloaded and extracted
+- Queue item at 100% (any other status) → `extracting` (unified `processing`): the tail of file assembly (and direct unpack), not completion
+- History post-processing statuses → not completed; monitoring keeps polling
+- `Completed` (history) → Successfully downloaded and extracted; `storage` gives the download path
 - `Failed` → Download or post-processing failed
 
 ## Remote Path Mapping
@@ -241,6 +243,7 @@ organizePath = PathMapper.transform(sabPath, config)
    - Applying `reverseTransform()` when setting category path (outgoing)
    - Applying `transform()` when processing completed downloads (incoming)
    - Using same `PathMapper` utility as qBittorrent for consistency
+**8. Requests failed at 100% before post-processing finished** - A queue item at 100% (the tail of file assembly, before SABnzbd moves the job to history for post-processing) mapped to `completed` with no storage path, so the monitor failed the request with "Download path not available". Fixed by mapping it to `extracting` in `getDownloadProgress()`; only a `Completed` history slot completes. Admin Retry treats `processing` as alive (`ALIVE_STATUSES` in `retry-download/route.ts`), so it resumes monitoring instead of re-adding the NZB.
 
 ## Automatic Cleanup
 
diff --git a/src/app/api/admin/requests/[id]/retry-download/route.ts b/src/app/api/admin/requests/[id]/retry-download/route.ts
index 78ddcb1d..8ee66d8b 100644
--- a/src/app/api/admin/requests/[id]/retry-download/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/admin/requests/[id]/retry-download/route.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ const ALIVE_STATUSES = new Set([
   'queued',
   'paused',
   'checking',
+  'processing', // e.g. a 100% SABnzbd item still finishing; re-adding would duplicate it
   'seeding',
   'completed',
 ]);
diff --git a/src/lib/integrations/sabnzbd.service.ts b/src/lib/integrations/sabnzbd.service.ts
index 40df08b2..7d043f85 100644
--- a/src/lib/integrations/sabnzbd.service.ts
+++ b/src/lib/integrations/sabnzbd.service.ts
@@ -927,7 +927,11 @@ export class SABnzbdService implements IDownloadClient {
     } else if (statusLower.includes('repairing') || statusLower.includes('verifying')) {
       state = 'repairing';
     } else if (percent >= 1.0) {
-      state = 'completed';
+      // 100% in the queue is the tail of file assembly (and direct unpack). SABnzbd
+      // then moves the job to history for post-processing (Verifying, Repairing,
+      // Extracting, Moving, Running); only a Completed history slot has the final
+      // storage path, so this is not completion yet.
+      state = 'extracting';
     }
 
     return {
diff --git a/tests/api/retry-download-guard.routes.test.ts b/tests/api/retry-download-guard.routes.test.ts
index de142245..3c173920 100644
--- a/tests/api/retry-download-guard.routes.test.ts
+++ b/tests/api/retry-download-guard.routes.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
  * Documentation: documentation/phase3/download-clients.md
  *
  * The stored link is only checked when the download is re-added; resuming
- * monitoring of a live torrent never uses it.
+ * monitoring of a live torrent never uses it. A download the client still
+ * reports as processing counts as live.
  */
 
 import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
@@ -51,6 +52,23 @@ describe('POST /api/admin/requests/[id]/retry-download', () => {
     expect(jobQueueMock.addDownloadJob).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it('resumes monitoring a SABnzbd download that is still processing instead of re-adding it', async () => {
+    // A 100% SABnzbd queue item reports processing; re-adding it would give SABnzbd a duplicate NZB.
+    prismaMock.downloadHistory.findFirst.mockResolvedValue({
+      id: 'dh-2', magnetLink: 'http://prowlarr-new:9696/1/download?link=abc', downloadClient: 'sabnzbd',
+      downloadClientId: 'SABnzbd_nzo_1', torrentName: 'Release', indexerName: 'Indexer', indexerId: 1,
+      torrentSizeBytes: null, seeders: null, leechers: null, torrentHash: null, torrentUrl: null,
+    });
+    clientMock.getDownload.mockResolvedValue({ status: 'processing', progress: 1 });
+    const { POST } = await import('@/app/api/admin/requests/[id]/retry-download/route');
+    const response = await POST({} as any, { params: Promise.resolve({ id: 'req-1' }) });
+
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(await response.json()).toMatchObject({ path: 'resumed_monitoring' });
+    expect(jobQueueMock.addMonitorJob).toHaveBeenCalledWith('req-1', 'dh-2', 'SABnzbd_nzo_1', 'sabnzbd', 0);
+    expect(jobQueueMock.addDownloadJob).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
   it('rejects re-adding a stored link that is not a Prowlarr download link or magnet', async () => {
     clientMock.getDownload.mockResolvedValue(null);
     const { POST } = await import('@/app/api/admin/requests/[id]/retry-download/route');
diff --git a/tests/integrations/sabnzbd.service.test.ts b/tests/integrations/sabnzbd.service.test.ts
index ba385db7..f95b63fc 100644
--- a/tests/integrations/sabnzbd.service.test.ts
+++ b/tests/integrations/sabnzbd.service.test.ts
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ describe('SABnzbdService', () => {
     expect(extracting.state).toBe('extracting');
   });
 
-  it('maps completed status when percentage is 100', () => {
+  it('maps a 100 percent queue item to extracting, not completed', () => {
     const service = new SABnzbdService('http://sab', 'key');
     const progress = service.getDownloadProgress({
       nzbId: 'nzb-7',
@@ -394,10 +394,76 @@ describe('SABnzbdService', () => {
       priority: 'Normal',
     });
 
-    expect(progress.state).toBe('completed');
+    expect(progress.state).toBe('extracting');
     expect(progress.percent).toBe(1);
   });
 
+  it('reports completed only once history says Completed, with its storage path', async () => {
+    // 100% in the queue is the tail of file assembly. SAB then moves the job to history,
+    // where post-processing (Verifying, Repairing, Extracting, Moving, Running) is reported;
+    // only a Completed history slot is done and has the final path.
+    const finalPath = '/downloads/readmeabook/Post Processing Book';
+    let historyStatus: string | null = null; // null: still in the queue
+    clientMock.get.mockImplementation(async (_url: string, config: { params: { mode: string } }) => {
+      if (config.params.mode === 'queue') {
+        return {
+          data: {
+            queue: {
+              slots: historyStatus !== null ? [] : [{
+                nzo_id: 'nzb-pp',
+                filename: 'Post Processing Book',
+                mb: '100',
+                mbleft: '0',
+                percentage: '100',
+                status: 'Downloading',
+                timeleft: '0:00:00',
+                cat: 'readmeabook',
+              }],
+            },
+          },
+        };
+      }
+      if (config.params.mode === 'history') {
+        return {
+          data: {
+            history: {
+              slots: historyStatus === null ? [] : [{
+                nzo_id: 'nzb-pp',
+                name: 'Post Processing Book',
+                category: 'readmeabook',
+                status: historyStatus,
+                bytes: '104857600',
+                // Even a known path must not complete the job before SAB says Completed.
+                storage: historyStatus === 'Extracting' ? '' : finalPath,
+                completed: historyStatus === 'Completed' ? '1700000000' : '0',
+              }],
+            },
+          },
+        };
+      }
+      throw new Error(`Unexpected SABnzbd mode: ${config.params.mode}`);
+    });
+
+    const service = new SABnzbdService('http://sab', 'key');
+
+    // Still in the queue at 100%: keep monitoring, there is no path to organize yet.
+    const assembling = await service.getDownload('nzb-pp');
+    expect(assembling).toMatchObject({ status: 'processing', progress: 1 });
+    expect(assembling?.downloadPath).toBeUndefined();
+
+    // Post-processing in history: neither completed nor failed, so the monitor keeps polling.
+    for (const status of ['Extracting', 'Moving']) {
+      historyStatus = status;
+      const postProcessing = await service.getDownload('nzb-pp');
+      expect(postProcessing, status).not.toBeNull();
+      expect(['completed', 'failed'], status).not.toContain(postProcessing?.status);
+    }
+
+    historyStatus = 'Completed';
+    const done = await service.getDownload('nzb-pp');
+    expect(done).toMatchObject({ status: 'completed', downloadPath: finalPath });
+  });
+
   it('creates the default category when missing', async () => {
     clientMock.get
       .mockResolvedValueOnce({