Aloha Dated Folders with x's Before & After

[smamark]

Is there an Aloha process that would add lowercase x's to the beginning and end of the dated sub-folders? Aloha Manager is still picking up the data in those folders for reporting, so I am assuming it is an Aloha process that added them. Any ideas what they mean?

Thanks...

Mark

 

[AlohaRoss]

that folder was renamed. Aloha is looking for a gnddbf30.xxx in dated folder to show up in aloha report field. Hope that helps. If you have any files other than gnddbf30.xxx in data or newdate, you can safely remove them. They were remnants of broken files. Usually trans.log file being renamed or someone making backup of file before changing something. I do that with any .cfg files. rename then .cfg.xxx so I have backup.

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[smamark]

Thanks for the reply. However, I'm not quite sure I follow you. There have been several dated sub-folders created lately (the like 7 or 8 days) that were named x20151207x, x20151206x, etc. Is the Aloha application doing this, and if so, why?

Thanks again...

 

[MenulinkMan]

The folder was renamed by a human, not Aloha. Typically, when I have had issues with a dated sub, i've renamed the folder to begin and end with an X, and made a backup of that folder that I could work with. This way I always had a backup if something went bad.

As AlohaRoss said, alot of people will also do this with regular files - such as naming them .xxx or .bak, so we have a backup of whatever we are working with.