entries.txt became empty

lorebett · Post by **lorebett** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:41 am

I'm still using version 1.43 (I'm planning to upgrade pretty soon); and after I received an email saying that a new email message "Someone has just signed your guestbook" I found out that my guestbook became empty, and actually the entries.txt file on the site became empty... Is this a known issue with this old version of the script? Some vulnerability?

thanks in advance
Lorenzo

Post by **Klemen** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:59 pm

Hi,

This is a "file corrupted" case. It happens sometimes with text databases, probably because multiple threads (or scripts) try to write to the same file on the same time. If you have a guestbook with many entries or a lot of website visitors I would recommend finding a guestbook with a MySQL database.

Either way I always recommend keeping scripts updated with the latest version and GBook is no different.

lorebett · Post by **lorebett** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:22 am

the problem was due to the fact that I had run out of space in the site hosting my guestbook.

Henrie · Post by **Henrie** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:19 pm

Hi Lorenzo,

A really late reply

But thank you for letting us know what caused it. It could help others.

Greetings,
Henrie

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lorebett · Post by **lorebett** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:47 pm

yes very late, sorry about that

I had really forgotten about it!