I'm seeing a new phenomena on Cyberia. My file base *.dir files are being deleted on a random bases. This started happening last week or the week
before. The original files in the file directories are not touched, just the *.dir files are deleted.

The only recent changes I made were to change the BINKP server settings to
skip for File Conflicts. I had had it set to Rename.

The other change I made was to upgrade to the latest MRC client. I don't believe that's related, but I added it to the list for completeness.

I'm running the massupload option in mutil to recreate the dir files. But
each day it seems a new random DIR file gets deleted and I have to recreate
it.

Is this happening to anybody else? What's causing it? How do I fix it?

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On 08 May 2019 at 09:44a, Gryphon pondered and said...

I'm seeing a new phenomena on Cyberia. My file base *.dir files are being deleted on a random bases. This started happening last week or the week before. The original files in the file directories are not touched, just the *.dir files are deleted.

The only recent changes I made were to change the BINKP server settings
to skip for File Conflicts. I had had it set to Rename.

The other change I made was to upgrade to the latest MRC client. I don't believe that's related, but I added it to the list for completeness.

I'm running the massupload option in mutil to recreate the dir files. But each day it seems a new random DIR file gets deleted and I have to recreate it.

Is this happening to anybody else? What's causing it? How do I fix it?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Cyberia BBS | cyberiabbs.zapto.org | San Jose, CA (21:1/120)

Golly, that does sound weird. Well for me no, I'm not seeing anything like this. I'm also at a loss to think of a reason why Mystic would be doing anything like that. Could be a HDD related issue? File corruptions on the
drive or a lack of space ??

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On 11 May 2019, Avon said the following...

Golly, that does sound weird. Well for me no, I'm not seeing anything
like this. I'm also at a loss to think of a reason why Mystic would be doing anything like that. Could be a HDD related issue? File corruptions on the drive or a lack of space ??

I haven't seen that happen either. Although I have noticed something on a smaller scale happening recently...

When a file is hatched out with the "Replace" verb, Mystic will remove the
old version from the file listing, as it should. It doesn't seem to be
actually removing the file from the HDD. When my maintenance runs, it will import the file back into the file base again...


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On 11 May 2019 &4, Avon said the following...

On 08 May 2019 at 09:44a, Gryphon pondered and said...

I'm seeing a new phenomena on Cyberia. My file base *.dir files are b deleted on a random bases. This started happening last week or the we before. The original files in the file directories are not touched, j the *.dir files are deleted.

The only recent changes I made were to change the BINKP server settin to skip for File Conflicts. I had had it set to Rename.

The other change I made was to upgrade to the latest MRC client. I do believe that's related, but I added it to the list for completeness.

I'm running the massupload option in mutil to recreate the dir files. each day it seems a new random DIR file gets deleted and I have to recreate it.

Is this happening to anybody else? What's causing it? How do I fix it

Golly, that does sound weird. Well for me no, I'm not seeing anything
like this. I'm also at a loss to think of a reason why Mystic would be doing anything like that. Could be a HDD related issue? File corruptions on the drive or a lack of space ??

It hasn't happened in a few days so I don't know what was causing it.
Hopefully it's not gonna happen any more.

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* Origin: Cyberia BBS | cyberiabbs.zapto.org | San Jose, CA (21:1/120)