Re: Trouble uploading two files with the same first 8.3 chars. AllVers
  By: Electrosys to All on Fri Mar 01 2019 04:10 pm

 > Hi Everyone,
 >
 > I upgraded to sbbs3.17c (3/1/2019) and I'm still having a small bug when
 > uploading files with the same first 8 characters. The two files are
 >
 > galgox-imginary_numbers.xm
 > galgox-pixieplanet.xm
 >
 > When I do a batch upload and upload the one file galgox-imginary_numbers.xm
 > the short name is GALGOX~1.XM and the long name is stored as usual.
 >
 > But when I upload galgox-pixieplanet.xm, GALGOX~1.XM becomes the short name
 > for that file as well and then the BBS complains that the file already
 > exists.
 >
 > When I uploaded these files on vert.synchro.net I didn't have this problems
 > as two different short names were generated for each of the files.
 >
 > What am I missing in the upgrade?

No.

 > Or is there some maintenance program that I need to run?

Not related to the issue you described.

 > Also note that I had this same problem before my upgrade when running 3.16c.
 >
 > Any insights would be appriciated.

What version of Windows are you running? It sounds like Windows is doing
something weird with short filenames. If you use "dir /x" on those files, what
do you see? This what I see on the files you uploaded here:

02/17/2019  06:20 AM           479,046 GALGOX~S.XM  galgox-imaginary_numbers.xm
02/17/2019  06:11 AM            24,255 GALGOX~J.XM  galgox-pixieplanet.xm

Your short filenames are likely going to be different than mine.

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