Hi DM,

Recently, it seems I've had a lot of file downloads from the guest account (possibly web downloads). I don't mind that, but almost every time I log into my BBS now, I get pages of notifications that various files have been downloaded by Guest. Is there a way to disable those guest file download notifications that appear during logon?

Nightfox

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Re: Disabling guest file download notifications?
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu May 22 2025 01:06 pm

Hi DM,

Recently, it seems I've had a lot of file downloads from the guest account (possibly web downloads). I don't mind that, but almost every time I log into my BBS now, I get pages of notifications that various files have been downloaded by Guest. Is there a way to disable those guest file download notifications that appear during logon?

Disable download notifications for *just* guest downloads? No.

However, you *can* set the "Download Notifications" setting for each file directory to "No" (in SCFG) or you can change the Uploader of the files in question to someone other than yourself.
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Re: Disabling guest file download notifications?
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu May 22 2025 05:53 pm

Disable download notifications for *just* guest downloads? No.

However, you *can* set the "Download Notifications" setting for each file directory to "No" (in SCFG) or you can change the Uploader of the files in question to someone other than yourself.

I see, thanks.

Nightfox

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Re: Disabling guest file download notifications?
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri May 23 2025 09:49 am

Re: Disabling guest file download notifications?
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu May 22 2025 05:53 pm

Disable download notifications for *just* guest downloads? No.

However, you *can* set the "Download Notifications" setting for each file directory to "No" (in SCFG) or you can change the Uploader of the files in question to someone other than yourself.

I see, thanks.

Would you prefer a global option to turn off all download notifications (for all uploaders and downloaders)? Or maybe turn off all download notifications for "free" files?

The latter of those 2 could be achieved by setting the text.dat/text.ini "FreeDownloadUserMsg" string to a blank string.

The former could be achieved by setting the "DownloadUserMsg" string to a blank string.

It'd also be possible to blank these strings at runtime (via JS) conditionally depending on the user logged-in, but that'd be for the terminal server, not the web server.
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Re: Disabling guest file download notifications?
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Fri May 23 2025 12:07 pm

However, you *can* set the "Download Notifications" setting for each
file directory to "No" (in SCFG) or you can change the Uploader of the
files in question to someone other than yourself.

I see, thanks.

Would you prefer a global option to turn off all download notifications (for all uploaders and downloaders)? Or maybe turn off all download notifications for "free" files?

The latter of those 2 could be achieved by setting the text.dat/text.ini "FreeDownloadUserMsg" string to a blank string.

The former could be achieved by setting the "DownloadUserMsg" string to a blank string.

It'd also be possible to blank these strings at runtime (via JS) conditionally depending on the user logged-in, but that'd be for the terminal server, not the web server.

I might play around with setting those to blank strings.

Nightfox

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