Subj : Re: fsxNet File Areas>>>Disappearing Files?
To   : paulie420
From : Avon
Date : Thu Nov 12 2020 09:03 pm

On 11 Nov 2020 at 08:29p, paulie420 pondered and said...
 
 pa> I'm probably just uninformed on how the fsxNet file bases/FTN File Bases
 pa> work.
 pa> 
 pa> What happened was I hadn't setup my fsxNet file bases, ever...
 pa> 
 pa> and I recently didso and Mystic tossed all these wonderful files into the
 pa> fsxNet file bases. ALL versions of mystic, tons of mods and doors and...
 pa> FILES.

how did it do this? were these files you manually placed in file base dirs
then ran a mutil function to import them?

 pa> 
 pa> A day later, they are all gone - replaced with yes, the current nodelist
 pa> and... I can see that they are all the files uploaded YESTERDAY, but...

did you run a maint.ini with [PackFileBases] enabled?


 pa> 
 pa> Is there a way to keep ALL the files forever? Is that not what the point
 pa> of the fsxNet file bases are supposed to be? 

Yes they should stay in your bases unless manually removed via Mystic file
editor options or if you remove the files from the directories concerned.

The reason I ask about the [PackFileBases] is that I wonder if this logic
checking is holding true in your case and if so Mystic data records are being
wiped etc.?

I am suspicious of the files, how they arrived, their Linux permissions and
the way MUTIL *may* be playing a part.


 pa> 
 pa> Is there a way to keep them until I can scrape what I want to keep on my
 pa> board?
 pa> 
 pa> I see one setting in the file areas called FileEcho Hub - to not allow
 pa> pass thru... but I probably just don't understand what this means.

That's a red herring. This is a setting to stop you system (acting as a HUB)
from tossing incoming files onwards to another echomail node your linked to
as exporting files to. So Don't worry about that setting :)

 pa> 
 pa> For an example, I'd noticed a raspberry pi compile of syncterm and told a
 pa> friend to go grab it because he is having issues with syncterm on a pi.
 pa> And of course it wasn't there...
 pa> 
 pa> So; will someone explain all my issues away??? Thanks kindly.
 pa> 
 pa> 

Happy to remote in and take a look if that would help.

Email me avon@bbs.nz or drop me a netmail if you need help :)

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