So my file bases all wiped on 8/10/17 (Yeah, I obivously don't check them too often, and I mean not the files, just the file entry dB) and I assume my nightly addfiles.exe run re-imported all the files, BUT there are no file descriptions (Usually addfiles imports the file_id.diz file).

Should I just kill the fileareas and run addfiles again, see if it fixes the problem? Anyone seen this before?


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Re: File Base Wiped?
By: Android8675 to All on Mon Sep 11 2017 08:45:12

So my file bases all wiped on 8/10/17 (Yeah, I obivously don't check them too often, and I mean not the files, just the file entry dB) and I assume my nightly addfiles.exe run re-imported all the files, BUT there are no file descriptions (Usually addfiles imports the file_id.diz file).

Should I just kill the fileareas and run addfiles again, see if it fixes the problem? Anyone seen this before?

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are you importin from files.bbs or from the directory listing? (fileid.diz, desc.sdi)

addfiles * -sz import file_id, etc//

adfilles * import from files.bbs

(I believe.)

it all explained if you run addfiles --help

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Re: File Base Wiped?
By: Android8675 to All on Mon Sep 11 2017 08:45 am

So my file bases all wiped on 8/10/17 (Yeah, I obivously don't check them too often, and I mean not the files, just the file entry dB) and I assume my nightly addfiles.exe run re-imported all the files, BUT there are no file descriptions (Usually addfiles imports the file_id.diz file).

Should I just kill the fileareas and run addfiles again, see if it fixes the problem? Anyone seen this before?

ADDFILES won't recreate the file areas however. If you mean delete the database files and re-run addfiles, that should work provided the files have embedded descriptions (FILE_ID.DIZ) and you're using a working addfiles command-line and your BBS is setup correctly for extracting files from archives (e.g. *.zip).

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Re: File Base Wiped?
By: Digital Man to Android8675 on Mon Sep 11 2017 04:09 pm

So my file bases all wiped on 8/10/17 (Yeah, I obivously don't check
them too often, and I mean not the files, just the file entry dB) and
I assume my nightly addfiles.exe run re-imported all the files, BUT
there are no file descriptions (Usually addfiles imports the

file_id.diz file).

Should I just kill the fileareas and run addfiles again, see if it
fixes the problem? Anyone seen this before?

ADDFILES won't recreate the file areas however. If you mean delete the database files and re-run addfiles, that should work provided the files have embedded descriptions (FILE_ID.DIZ) and you're using a working addfiles command-line and your BBS is setup correctly for extracting files from archives (e.g. *.zip).

Yes, that's what I ment, delete the database files and re-addfiles.

Heh, got SBBS setup to extract from 20 different compression types including .7z, .zip, .zoo, .tar, .bzip, .gz, .arc, .arj, .rar, .exe, .iso, etc.

The only place I call addfiles is when I receive .tic files, but I don't think I need to do that anymore as tickit.js handles all that? Maybe tickit.js caused the problem.

My addfiles cmdline is:

ADDFILES - -snzkci

Maybe I should setup a nightly call to that app.


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