Subj : Re: Addfiles Glitch
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Apr 19 2021 20:10:24

  Re: Re: Addfiles Glitch
  By: Daryl Stout to Digital Man on Mon Apr 19 2021 11:08 am

 > Rob,
 >
 >  DM> "ADDFILES area"?
 >
 >  DM> Please explain exactly what you tried and paste the exact error
 >  DM> message. --
 >
 >   The command was ADDFILES then the path of where they were located.

That is not how that program is used.
See https://wiki.synchro.net/util:addfiles for the correct usage.

 > I tried the full path c:\sbbs\data\dirs\pathname (where pathname was
 > the path), and even tried the internal code. On both, I was told the
 > area wasn't found...but it was on the hard drive.

Again, the *exact* error message. "area wasn't found" is not an exact error message.

 > I ended up going
 > to the main menu for the area, and using ;UPLOAD SYSOP to process the
 > files (thankfully, there weren't that many to add).

Okay, but that doesn't solve the problem.

But anyway, your message says you're running v3.19a, for which ADDFILES has been deprecated in favor of addfiles.js:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:addfiles
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