Hi
Reading your replies to problems here just makes me reaslise how good you all are and how far I still have to go and how much I still have to learn. Please can someone point me in a direction to sort this problem I am having ?

When I Click on Build All in my Admin Menu I get this response with error :
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Links Manager: Building Pages
Building Pages
Pages built on 26-Aug-2001 at 02:52:22
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Backing up database . . .
Backup exists for today.. Skipping
Done.

Building URL Index . . .
Done.

Updating New and Popular Records . . .
What's New Cutoff: 14 days
Popular Cutoff: 2 hits
Updating record: 1, marking as new.
Done.

Updating ratings ..

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : unable to open ratings directory: /data/rates. Reason: No such file or directory
Script Location : nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.006


Please can someone tell me where I am going wrong ? :-)
Thank you all.
Rgds
Georgio

OK there was a thread just recently on this ...

Let's if I remember the solutions:

check if the folder is there
check permissions
possible data corruption of the files for rates under admin/data/rates
my suggestion was to upload a phony file then rebuild over it.


If I missed anything please do a search

good luck

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Thanx QooQ :-))

I found my errors. Primarily caused by being in front of the PC for too many hours at a time.

The solution was so simple, I need to give myself a lashing with a whip :-))

The paths to my folders were not correct in my links.cfg page. I also had to create the extra folders ie. Cool, New and ratings in the pages folder. I also had to create the Detailed folder in the admin directory too. Having done all this, it is now working.
Thanx for your assistance :-))
Rgds
Georgio

no problem ... good luck

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