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Hello,

While I was rebuilding the site, I suffered a crash. I rebuilt again, and everything seemed fine. However, when I went to add a a new link, the ID started from 1 again... I added a few links, and it looks like everything is OK... Links is filling in the "gaps" in my ID numbering.

It looks like Linksid.txt disappeared, and that's what's causing this problem.

Should I worry about this, and "fake out" Links2 with a new linksid.txt? Or should I just not worry about it?

Stephan
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Just create a regular text file named linksid.txt and put the number of your highest link id# in it, upload it to the data directory, chmod it, and you should be all set.

Dan
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Thanks Dan... yes, I can do what you suggest, but what I was trying to figure out is whether it's necessary and/or advisable to do so.

Regards,
Stephan
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Yes. When the linksid.txt file either becomes empty or is deleted, do what Dan recommended and it should work again.

Regards,

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OK, I just edited the links database, manually renumbered the links which I had added post-crash, and put in a new linksid.txt ... everything seems back to normal.

Thanks!!
Stephan
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Good...Glad it worked.

Regards,

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