On 11 Nov 2020 at 08:29p, paulie420 pondered and said...

I'm probably just uninformed on how the fsxNet file bases/FTN File Bases work.

What happened was I hadn't setup my fsxNet file bases, ever...

and I recently didso and Mystic tossed all these wonderful files into the fsxNet file bases. ALL versions of mystic, tons of mods and doors and... FILES.

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

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

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

Is there a way to keep ALL the files forever? Is that not what the point 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.

Is there a way to keep them until I can scrape what I want to keep on my board?

I see one setting in the file areas called FileEcho Hub - to not allow 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 :)

For an example, I'd noticed a raspberry pi compile of syncterm and told a friend to go grab it because he is having issues with syncterm on a pi. And of course it wasn't there...

So; will someone explain all my issues away??? Thanks kindly.

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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On 12 Nov 2020, Avon said the following...

On 11 Nov 2020 at 08:29p, paulie420 pondered and said...

I'm probably just uninformed on how the fsxNet file bases/FTN File Ba work.

What happened was I hadn't setup my fsxNet file bases, ever...

and I recently didso and Mystic tossed all these wonderful files into fsxNet file bases. ALL versions of mystic, tons of mods and doors and FILES.

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

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

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

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

Yes they should stay in your bases unless manually removed via Mystic fileeditor 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 beingwiped etc.?

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

Is there a way to keep them until I can scrape what I want to keep on board?

I see one setting in the file areas called FileEcho Hub - to not allo 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 toas exporting files to. So Don't worry about that setting :)

For an example, I'd noticed a raspberry pi compile of syncterm and to friend to go grab it because he is having issues with syncterm on a p And of course it wasn't there...

So; will someone explain all my issues away??? Thanks kindly.

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 :)

I had setup fsxNet WITHOUT setting the file areas up for the longest time.

The .TIC & .ZIP files piled up, until a few days ago when I added the fsxNet file bases and ran ./mutil mailin.ini with FileToss turned on. They all came in, no problem; full fsxNet file bases.

The 'did I run PackFileBases' is a tough one, because I do have a 'filesort' ini since I'm actively adding a bunch of files to my file areas. :/ Eek. I *think* I could have run it; sorry, I know this answer sucks.

I just told a friend of a file (raspberry pi syncterm) that I had seen in one of the fsxNet file areas, and when I went to get it for him... I noticed all the areas are pretty empty, except for the CURRENT nodelist and other files hatched out like... today/yesterday.

Furhtermore; A lot of times when I look at FTN file bases on OTHER bbses, they are all empty - so I wonder if... this happens due to some [error] setup issue...

Sure you could remote in, especially if no one has an ah ha moment. My .ini situation is less than ideal - and I'm trying to learn EVERY function and how to implement them correctly, but... it is CLOSE to fubar.



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