Topic: Related to obsolete release

[David Yip]

Dear Sir/Madam:

I just want to talk about the obsolete release topic. The official support is stopped is ok. But is it ok to open the forum for users to help other users peer to peer. Sometimes & some reasons that cause user can not upgrade the server immediately. You can mention & highlight that no official support but let users can discuss & solve some problems by themselves. (Sorry, my english is not very good).

Something like that , I find the error 'Corrupted database :Not a zero terminated string in file' in selective file restore sme 7.x. I just find the answer in forum is 'not supported & please use sme8'. This is not a good feeling. After that , I try to fix the problem by myself and find that I can rename or delete the files dar-catalog in the backup USB Harddisk. The problem is fixed & I want to share it to others(more that 500 users read that post) and then find the forum is closed & not able to share it. Please open the forum again if possible. Thanks!

David Yip (from Hong Kong LJ Computer Systems)

[chris burnat]

Dear Sir/Madam:

I just want to talk about the obsolete release topic. The official support is stopped is ok. But is it ok to open the forum for users to help other users peer to peer. Sometimes & some reasons that cause user can not upgrade the server immediately. You can mention & highlight that no official support but let users can discuss & solve some problems by themselves. (Sorry, my english is not very good).

Something like that , I find the error 'Corrupted database :Not a zero terminated string in file' in selective file restore sme 7.x. I just find the answer in forum is 'not supported & please use sme8'. This is not a good feeling. After that , I try to fix the problem by myself and find that I can rename or delete the files dar-catalog in the backup USB Harddisk. The problem is fixed & I want to share it to others(more that 500 users read that post) and then find the forum is closed & not able to share it. Please open the forum again if possible. Thanks!

David Yip (from Hong Kong LJ Computer Systems)

David, can you post the reference to your post?
Thanks.

[David Yip]

Dear Chris:

I am sorry to reply late. (Very busy in Hong Kong haha!)

The related forum is this one.
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=47941.0

Thanks!

David Yip

[chris burnat]

Dear Chris:

I am sorry to reply late. (Very busy in Hong Kong haha!)

The related forum is this one.
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=47941.0

Thanks!

David Yip

Dear David,
I have flagged your request to a Senior Dev.  My understanding is that re-opening the VS7 forums is not an option, sme7 is dead and buried, unsuported and basically insecure.   All users should have moved to sme8 by now.  Sorry for disappointment.
chris

[janet]

David Yip

I suggest you add your comments & fix to the bug report referred to
ie
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7345

Future readers in need of support for that problem can follow the links to the bug report.