Using Mineshire
What happens to your servers when you close Mineshire
Click the X on most programs and they’re gone. Mineshire does something different, and it catches people out in both directions. Some are surprised their server is still running. Others wonder why a scheduled backup never happened.
Both come down to the same thing, so it’s worth five minutes to get straight.
The window closes, the servers don’t
By default, closing the window moves Mineshire into the notification area, the little icons near the clock. It keeps running there and so do your servers. Friends can stay connected while you get on with something else.
Click its icon to bring the window back. Right-click it for a short menu to open, start, stop or quit.
Quitting for real
Quit from that right-click menu to close Mineshire for real.
If you’d rather have the close button quit the app every time, there’s a switch for it in Settings, called “Keep running in the background when I close the window”. Turn it off and closing the window quits Mineshire, and it asks you first if servers are running.
Starting with Windows
There’s a separate switch, “Start Mineshire when I sign in to Windows”, and it’s off until you turn it on. With it on, Mineshire opens hidden in the notification area when you sign in. Servers that are set to start when Mineshire opens will start too, and you set that per server in the server’s own settings.
It only applies to the installed copy of Mineshire.
What needs Mineshire to be open
Anything Mineshire does for you needs Mineshire running, even if the window is hidden. That includes scheduled backups, restarting a crashed server, and the tunnel that gives friends an address.
The part people miss is the schedule. Backup plans only run while Mineshire is open. If your PC is off, or you quit the app from the tray, nothing runs at that time.
About restarts after a crash
Each server has a switch called “Restart if it crashes”. With it on, Mineshire starts the server again after an unexpected stop, but it gives up after three crashes in ten minutes. A server that keeps crashing needs a human, and a loop of restarts would only hide the problem.
When it gives up, open the console and read the first error. Our post on common server errors helps with that.