John, due to that issue, I never use the gui or hcicmd to cycle smat files. Instead I have a script that does that for me. It reads the netconfig to find the smat files and then if there any “old” files renames them with a timestamp and suffix that increments if a file already exists with that name. It then does the cycle save (based on what is in the netconfig) and goes thru the renaming process again. It will operate on all connections in a site or a single specified connection.
The current vesion also moves the renamed files to the site dir to a savedmsgs dir to its assoctiated thread name dir so that all saved messages for thread1 would be in the directory
$HCISITEDIR/savedmsgs/thread1
