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    From BiggieB@VERT/JJAMBBS to all on Thursday, September 17, 2026 21:38:51
    I think we lost power when my BBS was processing a QWK polling from VERT and I have been getting this error now. Not sure exactly what happened but the message sub is blank now. ALL the other subs seem to be working fine.

    Any idea on how to fix this?

    Thanks a bunch!

    See below:

    9/17 07:34:35p QNET !ERROR[x87] 2 (No such file or directory) (WinError 183) in qwktomsg.cpp line 519 (sbbs_t::qwk_import_msg) writing "D:\SBBS\data\subs\dove-syncdata" access=-206 info=smb_new_msghdr index file length (0), expected (200000)

    9/17 07:34:35p QNET !ERROR[x88] 2 (No such file or directory) (WinError 183) in qwktomsg.cpp line 519 (sbbs_t::qwk_import_msg) writing "D:\SBBS\data\subs\dove-syncdata" access=-206 info=smb_new_msghdr index file length (0), expected (200000)

    9/17 07:34:35p QNET Finished Importing QWK Network Packet from VERT: (0 msgs) in 1 seconds (0 msgs/sec), 2 errors, 0 dupes

    9/17 07:34:35p QNET D:\SBBS\data\VERT.qwk renamed to D:\SBBS\data\VERT.qwk.6aac790b.bad

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to BiggieB on Friday, September 18, 2026 10:52:15
    Re: QWK packet error
    By: BiggieB to all on Thu Sep 17 2026 09:38 pm

    I think we lost power when my BBS was processing a QWK polling from VERT and I have been getting this error now. Not sure exactly what happened but the message sub is blank now. ALL the other subs seem to be working fine.

    Any idea on how to fix this?

    Thanks a bunch!

    See below:

    9/17 07:34:35p QNET !ERROR[x87] 2 (No such file or directory) (WinError 183) in qwktomsg.cpp line 519 (sbbs_t::qwk_import_msg) writing "D:\SBBS\data\subs\dove-syncdata" access=-206 info=smb_new_msghdr index file length (0), expected (200000)

    Run fixsmb on it:
    https://wiki.synchro.net/util:fixsmb

    9/17 07:34:35p QNET D:\SBBS\data\VERT.qwk renamed to D:\SBBS\data\VERT.qwk.6aac790b.bad

    After the msgbase is fixed, you could import those previous messages still (if you care) by renaming these *.bad files to VERT.qwk (one a time)
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  • From BiggieB@VERT/JJAMBBS to Digital Man on Friday, September 18, 2026 14:38:02
    That did it!

    Thanks a million. I really appreciate it :)

    -Brian

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