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Hi Bill,

> Has there ever been a way figured out how to enter over 30 files areas any
> way other than one by one, manually?

I used to use ADDROM by Mark Williamson, which was a freeware RA 2.0
utility that reads every directory on a CD or path, or from a dirlist.txt 
file which
you can edit. It then adds all the directories to your FILES.RA 
automatically.

The only problem that like many classic RA utilities, this was written for 
RA
2.0 and not 2.5x.  RA changed the FILES.RA structure in version 2.5 when
Andrew added the FileDataBase and file indexing features.

Here is what I suggest:

1. Backup your existing FILES.RA and FILES.RDX. Just to be safe also
backup FGROUPS.* MESSAGES.* and MGROUPS.*.

2. Use ADDROM as described in the docs. I think it saves the new FILES.RA
to another filename, so copy that back to FILES.RA. You can download
ADDROM.ZIP from the BBS Archives.

3. Erase FILES.RDX (the index to FILES.RA). Hopefully you have not reordered
any of your file areas as any reordering will be lost by doing this.

4. Run RA20xto250.exe (this came with RA 2.50, and is used to upgrade
the 2.0 FILES.RA and MESSAGES.RA files over to 2.50 format, and it also
will recreate any missing index files.

That should do it... It's been about 10 years since I did this but it used 
to
work great.. hopefully I remembered the steps.  :)

Regards,  Mike 

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