I've run into a situation where my user IDs appear to have reset and started counting back up from 1.

I did have an error a while back that required recreating my main mystic data file (but not the user datafile) - could that be the cause?

Is there any way to fix this before it causes any problems?

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On 08/30/17, deepthaw said the following...

I've run into a situation where my user IDs appear to have reset and started counting back up from 1.

You can run 'mbbsutil -fixindex', and that will renumber them.

I did have an error a while back that required recreating my main mystic data file (but not the user datafile) - could that be the cause?

Yes, g00r00 had stated that the user.dat and mystic.dat are linked. If one of them is restored from a back-up or something, it will start causing issues
with the numbering.

He did state that he was going to look into unlinking the two file in the future.


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You can run 'mbbsutil -fixindex', and that will renumber them.

Okay, I did that. For some reason, bbslink is still linking to the right characters in LORD which I thought this would mix up. As long as it fixes things!

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On 08/30/17, deepthaw said the following...

I've run into a situation where my user IDs appear to have reset and started counting back up from 1.

I did have an error a while back that required recreating my main mystic data file (but not the user datafile) - could that be the cause?

Yes check for duplicate IDs, if you find any use mbbsutil -fixindex to fix them. There to seem to be issues with mis as well. I just had two copies and either was working so I couldn't login till I rebooted the system. Not sure what it was doing or if it's the newest version so will download again and update tonight.
Hmm, I see someone just said that - never mind ;)

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I did have an error a while back that required recreating my main mystic data file (but not the user datafile) - could that be the cause?

Yes, that is exactly the cause.

Is there any way to fix this before it causes any problems?

mbbsutil -fixindex

That might fix it. If it doesn't let me know and I'll figure something out.

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That might fix it. If it doesn't let me know and I'll figure something out.

It did fix it but I'm curious about something now. Despite my account's user
ID changing from 1 to 15, door games through bbslink.net that were using my account # still work.

Is that number stored separately from the ID I could see in the user editor?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
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It did fix it but I'm curious about something now. Despite my account's user ID changing from 1 to 15, door games through bbslink.net that were using my account # still work.

I am assuming BBSLINK uses your name, not your number. The account number I would guess is a BBS account number?

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