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Subject: A couple of questions Date: Mon Apr 08 2024 08:57 pm
From: Digital Man To: Apam

  Re: A couple of questions
  By: Apam to Digital Man on Mon Apr 08 2024 08:51 pm

 >   Re: A couple of questions
 >   By: Digital Man to apam on Mon Apr 08 2024 08:16 pm

 >  DM> I don't know about DD mods, but normally files are "new" when their
 >  DM> upload date/time is newer than the user's last logoff time.

 > That's what I would have thought too. After I typed the message, I discovered
 > the file scan pointer date, and noticed it was for the 6th of april, I
 > changed it to the 9th, but still it listed all the files. I'll try disabling
 > the DD mods.

 >  DM> Which feature is that exaclty?

 > Well, I'm not sure what they are called in synchronet of the top of my head,
 > but say they're file groups and file areas, it seems to split up some of the
 > areas into sub areas, like this

 > File Group
 > |
 > |--File Area
 > |--File Area 2
 > |--File SubArea
 > |   |-- File Area 3
 > |   |-- File Area 4
 > |--File Area 5

 > There is an option in scfg, under file groups:

 > Virtual Sub-Directories

 > with the option of:
 >   Internal Code Suffix
 >   Short Name
 >   Long Name

 > I thought maybe that was the feature that is causing the sub area

No, that's a different feature (impacting Synchronet FTP and HTTP server
representation of file directories) and not something you can turn off.

 > Anyway, I'll try with the dd stuff disabled

Sure. I don't know what Nightfox calls that feature, but I assume it's
configurable.
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