If I want to add the various files I download from elsewhere to the file areas on the BBS, is it as simple as moving them to the File Areas?
If I want to add the various files I download from elsewhere to the f areas on the BBS, is it as simple as moving them to the File Areas?
within the bbs you can use a mass upload option from the sysop menu once you drop them into the dirs on the HDD
There's also a similar tool in MUTIL :)
If I want to add the various files I download from elsewhere to the f areas on the BBS, is it as simple as moving them to the File Areas?
You can use mutil or a mass upload on the BBS.
You can mass upload files that don't exist in your database if the files are in
the directories. If those files have a file_id.diz the descriptions will be imported from them, it's sweet.
If those files don't have a file_id.diz you can import files and descriptions with mutil using Import_FILES.BBS (if you have files.bbs
with those files).
If I want to add the various files I download from elsewhere to the file areas on the BBS, is it as simple as moving them to the File Areas?
If I want to add the various files I download from elsewhere to the f areas on the BBS, is it as simple as moving them to the File Areas?After you put them in the appropriate folders you need to log-on to the BBS and do a sysop upload ("Mass Upload")
My workflow if I'm just adding weekly downloads of mine that I want to add;
scp files from my local laptop to the bbs:
scp ~/Downloads/uploads/* user@bbs.box.com:~/mystic/files/uploads
Then I do a '/U' mass upload in my Uploads file area.
From there I 'V'view and 'M'move them to their correct bases.
If its a bigger job, I use mutil to upload many directories at once... sometimes pulling in 00INDEX files for descriptions. Info on mystic wiki or in mutil.ini... :P
If its a bigger job, I use mutil to upload many directories at once.. sometimes pulling in 00INDEX files for descriptions. Info on mystic w or in mutil.ini... :P
Do you set those up like automatic events?
Do you set those up like automatic events?
Not really, Barmed... but like.. I was installing a bunch of old BBS/Shareware/Etc CD-Roms from back in the day, and a lot of the ZIP
files didn't have FILE_ID.DIZ for Mystic to automagically import the descriptions... in that case, a lot of old collections used 00INDEX
files or FILES.BBS or... a few other formats; these are text files with
a big list of all the files in a directory; and you can setup Mystic's mutil tool to import that file and give all the files you added a description.
There is info about doing so on the Mystic Wiki... its sometimes a b**ch to setup, but the option IS there if you're adding TONS of stuff.
Really, I add files kinda in a way that ISN'T automatic... but feels
right to me. I get in the zone and go on robot mode, the keypresses
become a routine and... I should probably figure out smarter ways to import stuff. BUT it works for me. :P
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