Hello mark!

Monday September 09 2019 09:00, you wrote to me:


 >  On 2019 Sep 08 16:58:34, you wrote to All:

 VC>> The system can no longer pass packets to them as all extention
 VC>> letters are used up.

 > this is one reason why these days it is easier and somewhat better to
 > not use bundles at all... just raw PKTs and there's no more problem
 > like this specific one...

 VC>> Another option is if mbse on reaching .xxz (where xx is the day)
 VC>> to delete all older empty archives and then restart with .xx0.

 > this is what i remember being done BUT when the new bundle was
 > created, the old truncated one was removed so it appears that your
 > problem is in the code that should be removing the last truncated
 > bundle one the new bundle's name has been determined...

 > of course, if you insist on using bundles, you could drop the
 > extension increments and always send

 >   .mo1
 >   .tu1
 >   .we1
 >   etc...

 > that might be done by setting your system to delete the bundle instead
 > of truncating it...

 > i switched to raw PKTs over a decade ago and have never looked back...


MAy well have to do the same but looking yesterday at the last archive used
late afternoon it does appear that mbse may well be using the last one for new
packets.  I will keep an eye on it over the next few days but today it looks
like the downlink has reduced his polling count over a 24 hour period to once
per hour but must remember to check it after 23:00 to verify.


Vince

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