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to: Janis Kracht
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2002-11-05 20:21:28
subject: NodelistGuide or FAQ

Hello Janis.

05 Nov 02 11:52, you wrote to me:

 >>> The big differnce between the two runs was that on the second run,
 >>> I removed all the *.305 files and re-imported the segments :) It
 >>> could be that the original segments were corrupted I suppose..

 >> It did not like something, that is obvious, but what, and why should
 >> "touching" the files "fix" the problem.

 JK> Being a bit tired after midnight that night, I wasn't in the mood to
 JK> trouble-shoot the problem the way I might have .. I knew I had to
 JK> catch all the tics and files that had been generated, and still do the
 JK> second run and check it .  Touching the files made a big difference
 JK> in the previous month's errors.. why, I have no idea.  I found the C
 JK> source on my system and will be taking a look at it this week (I hope
 JK> ).

Hope you find some enlightenment. :-)

 >> Deleteing the "old" files could point
 >> to a corrupt file some where, but then what caused it to become
 >> corrupt in the first place?

 JK> It would have to be within a very short time period that this
 JK> happened.. the exact same files were copied into the pertinent
 JK> directories before the first run.. In the second run, the files were
 JK> deleted and then re-copied to 'force' a regeneration..

Me no understand why it is like that, but have seen somewierd things happen 
on compurters. :-((

Russell

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