Subj : Migrate question
To   : RickV
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Sep 05 2025 12:34:08

  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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