Hello August!

*** 21.02.20 at 17:03, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]
 MF>> The two new file echo areas were automatically created and both the .tic
 MF>> files were deleted from my FILES directory.

 AA> And, I assume you are running the windows version of OXP?

At the moment yes but I've never had any problems with my Linux install  
whether the feature is enabled or not.

 AA> I don't have a NODEDIFZ or NODELISZ created at all.

 AA> OR.. maybe the program *has* been trying to create them but that's when
 AA> it locks up?

That could be a possibility because OpenXP writes an empty message in the  
messagebase every time a new file has been processed in a file echo .....

---------- 8< ----------
EMP: /FIDO/FILES/NODEDIFZ
ABS: FileScan@2:292/854
BET: C:\USERS\MARTIN\OPENXP\FILES\NODEDIFF.Z52
EDA: 20200221095600W+0
MID: 2002210956.1.Tick@2:310/31
ROT: 2:310/31!2:240/5832!2:292/854
Zusammenfassung: Fidonet NODEDIFF for this week (ZIP)
X_C:
X-XP-NTP: 30
X-XP-ATT: 0010
F-TO: Fidonet NODEDIFF for this week (ZIP)
LEN: 0

EMP: /FIDO/FILES/NODELISZ
ABS: FileScan@2:292/854
BET: C:\USERS\MARTIN\OPENXP\FILES\NODELIST.Z52
EDA: 20200221095600W+0
MID: 2002210956.2.Tick@2:310/31
ROT: 2:310/31!2:240/5832!2:292/854
Zusammenfassung: Fidonet NODELIST for this week (ZIP)
X_C:
X-XP-NTP: 30
X-XP-ATT: 0010
F-TO: Fidonet NODELIST for this week (ZIP)
LEN: 0

EMP: /FIDO/FILES/Z2PNT_D
ABS: FileScan@2:240/1120
BET: C:\USERS\MARTIN\OPENXP\FILES\Z2PNT_D.Z52
EDA: 20200221120900W+0
MID: 2002211209.1.Tick@2:310/31
ROT: 2:310/31!2:240/5832!2:240/1120
Zusammenfassung: Z2 PntDiff (Boss) day 052 (21.02.2020)
X_C:
X-XP-NTP: 30
X-XP-ATT: 0010
F-TO: Z2 PntDiff (Boss) day 052 (21.02.2020)
LEN: 0

EMP: /FIDO/FILES/Z2PNT
ABS: FileScan@2:240/1120
BET: C:\USERS\MARTIN\OPENXP\FILES\Z2PNT.Z52
EDA: 20200221120900W+0
MID: 2002211209.2.Tick@2:310/31
ROT: 2:310/31!2:240/5832!2:240/1120
Zusammenfassung: Z2 PntList (Boss) day 052 (21.02.2020)
X_C:
X-XP-NTP: 30
X-XP-ATT: 0010
F-TO: Z2 PntList (Boss) day 052 (21.02.2020)
LEN: 0
---------- 8< ----------

So, casting your mind back to the time when you said that you'd had some  
sort of messagebase corruption, maybe one of your messagebase files is  
still corrupted and maybe OpenXP is trying to write to that messagebase  
file but can't.

 AA> I *do* have a lowercase "/nodelist" directory, but I had created that
 AA> myself.

That shouldn't be a problem.

 AA> Could it be that the program expects to operate in C: drive?  My OXP is
 AA> configured in my H: partition.

Nope.

 AA> I'll try one more week with the TIC feature disabled. If that goes
 AA> smoothly, I will enable it.

Looking forward to the next thrilling installment :-)

Regards,
Martin

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