Subj : Messagebase question
To   : MRO
From : RickV
Date : Tue Oct 14 2025 11:18:39

Hello MRO!

22 May 71 11:58, you wrote to Richard Vonzel:

 MR>   Re: Messagebase question
 MR>   By: Richard Vonzel to Digital Man on Mon Oct 13 2025 11:44 am

 >> Re: Messagebase question
 >> By: Digital Man to RickV on Tue Sep 02 2025 04:05 pm

 >>  >  >  > Will Synchronet scfg re build the message bases if you
 >> delete all t
 >>  >  >  > If not is there a way to get hem to re build?

 >>  >  > Yes, if you run "scfg -a".
 >>  >  > https://wiki.synchro.net/util:scfg#command-line


 >> So I tried this and it did not create new message base files.

 MR> just restore a backup or dump some files in from a new install.
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In this case no that won't work. I was have some trouble with miss configuration, so I deleted all the message areas and files, and re created the areas. The re built the files with scfg -f -a, worked great. Then just sent rescans to my feeds to re capture all the messages. BOOM! back up.

RickV


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