Hi folks, posted this in the Synchro Fido Echo but I am posting it here also.
I woke up this morning and my account has been deleted on my SynchroNet
board, I tried to use the User Editor, but it says that the data file can't
be opened. Cannot open c:\sbbs\data\user/user.dat. Any way to fix this?

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Re: Synchro Deleted my account
By: Bucko to All on Tue Sep 25 2018 07:30 am

Hi folks, posted this in the Synchro Fido Echo but I am posting it here also. I woke up this morning and my account has been deleted on my SynchroNet board, I tried to use the User Editor, but it says that the data file can't be opened. Cannot open c:\sbbs\data\user/user.dat. Any way to fix this?

Never seen that happen. I wonder why your #1 user got deleted?

Can you restore that user in uedit?

Ttyl :-),
Al


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On 09/25/18, Al said the following...

Never seen that happen. I wonder why your #1 user got deleted?

Can you restore that user in uedit?

That's the only account with access to UEDIT. It shows me in the User Editor
on the main screen as deleted but because of that data error I can't edit the account..

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Re: Synchro Deleted my account
By: Bucko to All on Tue Sep 25 2018 07:30 am

Hi folks, posted this in the Synchro Fido Echo but I am posting it here also. I woke up this morning and my account has been deleted on my SynchroNet board, I tried to use the User Editor, but it says that the data file can't be opened. Cannot open c:\sbbs\data\user/user.dat. Any way to fix this?

Question.. do you have an SBBSCTRL environment variable set, either in your environment or sbbs.ini, and it it set correctly?

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Re: Re: Synchro Deleted my account
By: Bucko to Al on Tue Sep 25 2018 07:45 am

That's the only account with access to UEDIT. It shows me in the User Editor on the main screen as deleted but because of that data error I can't edit the account..

There are backups in that directory also.. proceed with caution.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al


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On 09/25/18, Al said the following...

Question.. do you have an SBBSCTRL environment variable set, either in your environment or sbbs.ini, and it it set correctly?

There is a sbbsctrl variable set as CTRLDIRECTORY=C:\sbbs\ctrl\

If that is what you mean..

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I tried a backup and it didn't change anything..

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Re: Re: Synchro Deleted my account
By: Bucko to Al on Tue Sep 25 2018 08:00 am

Question.. do you have an SBBSCTRL environment variable set, either
in your environment or sbbs.ini, and it it set correctly?

There is a sbbsctrl variable set as CTRLDIRECTORY=C:\sbbs\ctrl\

If that is what you mean..

I've never heard of that but that may be a windows thing and it does point to where my SBBSCTRL environment points to, so I think that's good.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Re: Re: Synchro Deleted my account
By: Bucko to Al on Tue Sep 25 2018 08:01 am

I tried a backup and it didn't change anything..

OK, I think you should wait for advice from Digital Man.

I'm at a loss here.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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On 09/25/18, Al said the following...

There is a sbbsctrl variable set as CTRLDIRECTORY=C:\sbbs\ctrl\

If that is what you mean..

I've never heard of that but that may be a windows thing and it does
point to where my SBBSCTRL environment points to, so I think that's good.

Ttyl :-),
Al

LOL That's a good thing I guess then.. .LOL If it's not one thing it's another.. LOL

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On 09/25/18, Al said the following...

OK, I think you should wait for advice from Digital Man.

I'm at a loss here.

Yea, that is what I am thinking... Hopefully, he'll get back to me today either here or in Fido.. :)

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Thanks for trying to help out Al, I ended up restoring backups from the other day.. I was able to get on and set up another account in case it happens again.. I did test it again and it still gives the error from the Control
Panel but ;UEDIT works... Like I told Digital Man, IMO it's not the user.dat that is the issue, it has to be something in the useredit program.. ANyways.. I'm back online for now at least.. LOL

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Re: Re: Synchro Deleted my account
By: Bucko to Al on Tue Sep 25 2018 03:55 pm

Thanks for trying to help out Al, I ended up restoring backups from the other day.. I was able to get on and set up another account in case it happens again.. I did test it again and it still gives the error from the Control Panel but ;UEDIT works... Like I told Digital Man, IMO it's not the user.dat that is the issue, it has to be something in the useredit program.. ANyways.. I'm back online for now at least.. LOL

Have you used ;uedit from the BBS or command line to edit your user?

Users will be deleted if they don't call in (how much time you have set for Maximum days of inactivity) but I can't think of any other reason a user account would be deleted.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Re: Re: Synchro Deleted my account
By: Al to Bucko on Tue Sep 25 2018 01:53 pm

Re: Re: Synchro Deleted my account

Have you used ;uedit from the BBS or command line to edit your user?

Users will be deleted if they don't call in (how much time you have set for Maximum days of inactivity) but I can't think of any other reason a user account would be deleted.

Ttyl :-),

Yes I used ;UEDIT all the time. That works fine.. My account was actually not deleted but Deactivated. I don't know what would cause it but at least I am on-line again.. We'll see tomorrow morning though.. lol
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