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    From Mojo@1:103/705 to All on Fri Jun 29 14:38:28 2018
    Is there a way to move message area out of one group and into another group and have it keep all the messages it currently has in them?


    I have tried this with one message base and now I have no messages in any of them. I wanted to split up my FidoNet areas to have 25 in eah and I did this but now none of the areas have messages in them. Beofre I moved them they all had messages in them. I got some others I want to do this with but not if this is going to happen if I split them up.


    Thanks
    Mojo

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Mojo on Fri Jun 29 13:28:45 2018
    Re: Message Areas
    By: Mojo to All on Fri Jun 29 2018 02:38 pm

    Is there a way to move message area out of one group and into another group and have it keep all the messages it currently has in them?

    Yes, so long as the "internal code" remains the same. If you change the internal code, then you'll need to copy or rename the data/subs/<code>.* files to suit.

    I have tried this with one message base and now I have no messages in any of them. I wanted to split up my FidoNet areas to have 25 in eah and I did this but now none of the areas have messages in them. Beofre I moved them they all had messages in them. I got some others I want to do this with but not if this is going to happen if I split them up.

    Did you change the internal code prefix for the message group? Doing so will change the internal codes of all the subs within that group, so you'd have to do some file renaming (in data/subs).

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Mojo on Fri Jun 29 13:24:47 2018
    Re: Message Areas
    By: Mojo to All on Fri Jun 29 2018 02:38 pm

    Is there a way to move message area out of one group and into another group and have it keep all the messages it currently has in them?

    I think that can be done if the internal code of the message area still matches the internal code after moving it to the new area. If its internal code changes, I believe you should be able to just rename the files for the sub-board to match the new internal code. I believe the sub-board files are stored in the sbbs\data\subs directory.

    Nightfox

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Mojo on Fri Jun 29 16:29:38 2018

    On 2018 Jun 29 14:38:28, you wrote to All:

    Is there a way to move message area out of one group and into another group and have it keep all the messages it currently has in them?

    you have to manually copy/move/rename the files behind the scenes, too...

    i haven't found it yet but it would be nice if scfg had a way to pick up a message area and move it elsewhere while taking care of the underlaying copying/moving/renaming stuff for you...

    my mail tosser does this but RA and FD do not... so i use FE to make the changes and then manually go editing RA's and FD's stuff along with my JAMnntpd
    area configs, too... FE makes it great... the other manual editing part isn't so fun even though i know exactly which areas...

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Digital Man on Sat Jun 30 08:46:00 2018
    On 06-29-18 13:28, Digital Man wrote to Mojo <=-

    Did you change the internal code prefix for the message group? Doing so will change the internal codes of all the subs within that group, so
    you'd have to do some file renaming (in data/subs).

    I found that out the hard way a long time ago. ;-)


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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Nightfox on Sat Jun 30 08:47:00 2018
    On 06-29-18 13:24, Nightfox wrote to Mojo <=-

    I think that can be done if the internal code of the message area still matches the internal code after moving it to the new area. If its internal code changes, I believe you should be able to just rename the files for the sub-board to match the new internal code. I believe the sub-board files are stored in the sbbs\data\subs directory.

    Yes to all of the above. I've done it, and DM confirmed it too.


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  • From Mojo@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Fri Jun 29 20:22:44 2018
    Re: Message Areas
    By: Digital Man to Mojo on Fri Jun 29 2018 01:28 pm

    Yes, so long as the "internal code" remains the same. If you change the internal code, then you'll need to copy or rename the data/subs/<code>.* files to suit.


    Thank you Digital Man that was my problem the internal code. Once I fixed that everything returned to normal.

    Take care and have a good weekend
    Mojo

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