Re: Changing drives
By: Phil Culmer to All on Fri Aug 21 2009 11:48 am

I recently set up synchronet, and all was going well, with my file
libraries on a removable drive, and everything else on my D: drive.
I then decided to move my installation to the external drive, so that I could make it portable, editing config files as needed.

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It's more of less working, but when it runs tbdmaint or msgmaint, the dos shell attempts to run something on drive D:, and then sit there with an abort/retry/fail error if I've not got an installation on D: for it to
find.

Any idea what else needs editing?

Did you change the command-lines for these events in SCFG->External Programs->Timed Events? The stock/default command-lines should work fine when moving the files from one drive to another. As example:

Internal Code MSGMAINT
Start-up Directory ../data
Command Line %!smbutil mp1000 subs/*.shd

You can see the start-up directory is relative to the current working directory (which should be your Synchronet CTRL directory) and the path is just "subs/*.shd" - everything being relative.

Failing that, what files would I need to copy from my current install to a fresh install on E: to avoid setting the whole thing up again? I'm guessing /data and /ctrl - anything else?

text, if you made any modifications there.

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