Subj : KIA BBS issues
To   : Sniper
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Sep 13 2025 14:48:22

  Re: KIA BBS issues
  By: Sniper to All on Fri Sep 12 2025 11:24 pm

 > Hello all,  its been a minute.

Welcome back!

 > So I've finally had some time to try to get
 > the old KIA BBS back up and running. Several months back, I was able to
 > restore the old BBS.  I built a Virtual WinXP system on a TerraMaster NAS
 > device, and pulled the BBS off a backup. Version is SynchroNet 3.16.
 > Everything seemed to work then life slapped me, lost my job decided to
 > retire, so I left it sit for a bit.  So I'm back...  I am attempting to
 > upgrade it.  I currently have a Win10 Pro system on the same TerraMaster
 > NAS.  I copied the 3.16 over and most of it worked, except the doors, of
 > course.  I did all the updates to the Win10 system suggested.  Then updated
 > SynchroNet from 3.16 to 3.19.  At this point, I believe everything is
 > working.  I have tested several door games, and they seem to be working.  So
 > I think I got all that working.  So that is where I am at the moment.  I did
 > a backup of the system at the 3.19, then attempted to do the upgrade to
 > 3.20.  It failed...  Not sure what happened, but, it seems to reset
 > everything to an initial install.

Sounds like you didn't run 'jsexec update'. The upgrade archive contains instructions (README.TXT).
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