Re: [Mldonkey-users] files.ini corrupted when disk was full

[Andre Hinrichs]

Am Samstag, 28. Dezember 2002 19:29 schrieb Sergio Bayarri Gausi:
> Hello,
>
> > > But this is the most important file and mldonkey should take care of
> > > not corrupt this file.
>
> However, when this happens, it can be solved with a simple "recover_temp"

I couldn't because mldonkey didn't start anymore (error reading file).

> > Is it?  I delete it from time to time to get rid of some really old
> > sources.
>
> It depends.... If you delete it you'll have to rehash the entire temp
> folder again (recover_temp), which consumes quite a lot of time.
>
> The best thing would be to make a simple (perl,python,whatever) script
> which scans the files.ini file and removes *only* the sources, not the md4
> of the files.
>
> That's to remove everything in the file_locations = [ ... ] statements :)

Yes, I'm also not a friend of deleting this file.
BTW, doesn't mldonkey delete the sources from time to time? (max_source_age)


Andre