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Re: Migrate question
By: RickV to All on Thu Sep 04 2025 10:19 am
> Hello everybody!
>
> After reviewing the wiki on migrating Synchronet, I removed and did a fresh
> install on my Linux Mint VM. After the install I set it up slightly with
> scfg. I then copied my data, ctrl, node*, text, mods,and xtrn directories.
> After that when I ran scfg again, nothing was updated, everything was the
> way it was before I copied the directories. Am I missing something, why is
> Synchronet not reading the newer files?
You copied the files to the wrong location. Try doing a system-wide
file search for "main.ini" (for example, e.g. "dir /s c:\\main.ini" if on
Windows) and if/when you find that filename in multiple locations, that
should give a clue what you did wrong.
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