Subj : QWK packet error
To   : BiggieB
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Sep 18 2026 10:52 am

  Re: QWK packet error
  By: BiggieB to all on Thu Sep 17 2026 09:38 pm

 > I think we lost power when my BBS was processing a QWK polling from VERT and
 > I have been getting this error now. Not sure  exactly what happened but the
 > message sub is blank now. ALL the other subs seem to be working fine.
 >
 > Any idea on how to fix this?
 >
 > Thanks a bunch!
 >
 > See below:
 >
 > 9/17  07:34:35p  QNET !ERROR[x87] 2 (No such file or directory) (WinError
 > 183) in qwktomsg.cpp line 519 (sbbs_t::qwk_import_msg) writing
 > "D:\SBBS\data\subs\dove-syncdata" access=-206 info=smb_new_msghdr index file
 > length (0), expected (200000)

Run fixsmb on it:
https://wiki.synchro.net/util:fixsmb

 > 9/17  07:34:35p  QNET D:\SBBS\data\VERT.qwk renamed to
 > D:\SBBS\data\VERT.qwk.6aac790b.bad

After the msgbase is fixed, you could import those previous messages still (if 
you care) by renaming these *.bad files to VERT.qwk (one a time)
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

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