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   g00r00 to All   
   Re: Issue   
   14 Jun 22 12:02:12   
   
   From: nospam.g00r00@f215.n129.z1.fidonet.org   
      
    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.   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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