Re: [Pan-users] Re: Download of DAMAGED incompletes....

[Alberto BARSELLA]

Hi,

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 at 11:35:39AM -0700, Duncan wrote:

> OK.  This is caused when the overview index on the server gets out of sync
> with the actual message store.  
[......]

Thanks for the explanation.  Here the problem appeared after some days 
of erratic operation from the newsservers (there's a group of them with 
a dns roundrobin).  The new stuff coming in is ok, so maybe it was some 
screwup at my ISP.

> There are two basic approaches to handling article d/l and saves.  You are
> using the one that doesn't work in cases like this, attempting to d/l and
> save the attachment directly.  The other way, d/ling to cache, and THEN
> saving, should work better, but  of course requires a larger cache,
[......]

Ok, let's see if I have understood everyhing correctly.

> Anyway, what you do is this.  Instead of hitting save attachment directly
> from the overview and letting it download and auto-save, just hit
> download, not save.  With multi-parts, you WILL need to expand them so you
> can select all the parts, when telling it to d/l, or it will only get the
> first part of each multi-part.

I've selected not to collapse complete multi-parts in order to expand 
the thread, but it looks like it's not important to select all 
sub-parts, if I select the thread and hit "download" it says it's 
downloading everything.  There's some complaining about articles not 
found, and it has stopped in mid-download, with only some stuff in the 
cache.  Is there a limit to the number of errors before it stops 
completely?  I've tried to select all parts manually and it looks 
like it's doing the same thing.

I'm trying something different: I've told pan to copy everything to 
pan.sendlater (it was just an empty folder).  Looks like it's working 
better, it's still downloading after many errors.
Ok, it stopped again and I had to restart it manually.  This means I 
cannot leave it running unattended, but overall it's managing to 
download more parts than with "save"..... It'll do for now, since this 
kind of error is very rare on my newsserver.

> A variation on this technique was pointed out earlier on this list.  If
> you have multiple servers available but either none of them have the
[.......]

Yes, I remember reading that, but I have no "backup" hi-quality 
server....

Bye and thanks again for the explanations,
Alberto
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