Hello Rj!   
      
   Sunday December 03 2017 10:57, you wrote to me:   
      
    VC>> If you are going to use mbse over a previous BBS then you may well   
    VC>> also want to adopt all of the various bbs file areas into mbse   
    VC>> using mbfile.   
      
    >    There's a separate issue regarding that as all of the public files   
    > areas are/were kept in separate, from the Mbse BBS install,   
    > directories, and that it turns out I didn't have a backup of.   
      
    >    So there are a lot of files in the BBS files database that are not   
    > actully present.  Presumably I can take are of this by putting the   
    > files were it thinks they are but I need to decide which ones to to   
    > that for...   
      
   That is what the mbfile adopt function is for however if you have all of the   
   files.bbs and 00index you may have other ways of ding it but when I migrated    
   to   
   mbse I did use the mbfile adopt feature as it was a lot easier even if there   
   was over 300 areas.   
      
      
   Vince   
      
   --- Mageia Linux v5.1/Mbse v1.0.7.4/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715   
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)