• KIA BBS issues

    From Sniper@VERT/KIA to All on Friday, September 12, 2025 23:24:46
    Hello all, its been a minute. So I've finally had some time to try to get the old KIA BBS back up and running. Several months back, I was able to restore the old BBS. I built a Virtual WinXP system on a TerraMaster NAS device, and pulled the BBS off a backup. Version is SynchroNet 3.16. Everything seemed to work then life slapped me, lost my job decided to retire, so I left it sit for a bit. So I'm back... I am attempting to upgrade it. I currently have a Win10 Pro system on the same TerraMaster NAS. I copied the 3.16 over and most of it worked, except the doors, of course. I did all the updates to the Win10 system suggested. Then updated SynchroNet from 3.16 to 3.19. At this point, I believe everything is working. I have tested several door games, and they seem to be working. So I think I got all that working. So that is where I am at the moment. I did a backup of the system at the 3.19, then attempted to do the upgrade to 3.20. It failed... Not sure what happened, but, it seems to reset everything to an initial install. So I restored back to the 3.19. I'm having a strange error that I didn't notice before. If I try to make a change, or shut down the BBS I'm getting: Failure writing Initalization file: c:\sbbs\ctrl\sbbs.ini. I'm done some searching in the docs and the Wiki, but am not having any luck finding this issue. I'm thinking that this may be the reason the system reverted to an initial install. Any thoughts? My apologies, If you all remember me, I'm rather long winded. :) hahaha!
    Sniper

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Sniper on Saturday, September 13, 2025 14:48:22
    Re: KIA BBS issues
    By: Sniper to All on Fri Sep 12 2025 11:24 pm

    Hello all, its been a minute.

    Welcome back!

    So I've finally had some time to try to get
    the old KIA BBS back up and running. Several months back, I was able to restore the old BBS. I built a Virtual WinXP system on a TerraMaster NAS device, and pulled the BBS off a backup. Version is SynchroNet 3.16. Everything seemed to work then life slapped me, lost my job decided to retire, so I left it sit for a bit. So I'm back... I am attempting to upgrade it. I currently have a Win10 Pro system on the same TerraMaster NAS. I copied the 3.16 over and most of it worked, except the doors, of course. I did all the updates to the Win10 system suggested. Then updated SynchroNet from 3.16 to 3.19. At this point, I believe everything is working. I have tested several door games, and they seem to be working. So I think I got all that working. So that is where I am at the moment. I did a backup of the system at the 3.19, then attempted to do the upgrade to 3.20. It failed... Not sure what happened, but, it seems to reset everything to an initial install.

    Sounds like you didn't run 'jsexec update'. The upgrade archive contains instructions (README.TXT).
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