Subj : Re: Issue
To   : IB Joe
From : g00r00
Date : Tue Jun 14 2022 12:02 pm

 IJ> I think there is a small issue you might want to review for the next
 IJ> release...
 IJ> 
 IJ> Message areas are auto created in the \mystic\msgs\ directory.  If I
 IJ> want to move the message files to a subdirectory like all the fido to
 IJ> \mystic\msgs\fido\ or \mystic\msgs\usenet\ ... Here is goes... if I move
 IJ> / target the message ares one at a time it'll move the files over ... If
 IJ> I try to move several over at a time with the Global command menu.... It
 IJ> seems to leave some files behind in the \mystic\msgs\ directory and they
 IJ> appear to be links to the files that were moved.

A couple of notes here because I think a lot of this might just be confusion on how things work:

If you are seeing .lnk files those are not any type of links to files, those are part of the message base itself.  Mystic message bases each have 7 data files with the following extensions: lnk, scn, xlr, jhr, jlr, jdt, and jdx.  If you remove any of those you could cause some problems down the line.

When using the global editor it does not rename or move files for you, you are only updating the path.  If you want to try to relocate your files into those directories you have to manually copy them and then use the global editor to update the path.  It will only update that value not move files.

The reason the auto create in the import doesn't allow you to set the path for each network is because I have been over the years trying to get people to stop moving the message base data files all over the place because it makes it harder to do upgrades or to change the root Mystic install directory, or move between Windows and Linux (for examples).  This is something I could add though but I haven't because my goal was to remove the configurable message path per message base.

.... I'm not a complete idiot... Several parts are missing!

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