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| Fired everything up this morning and think I had a spastic mouse click when
newsgroup was downloading. The old screen showing list of headers, which
were read, unread, watched, etc. displayed for a second, as usual, but
during those couple of seconds downloading the updated screen (where I MAY
have accidently clicked), it came up with only two days worth of messages,
ALL unread, NO tags. Exited OE, came back, same thing, except now the "old"
screen was what I'd just got! It used to show posts from over a year ago,
with all the tags, etc.. I unsubscribed, resubscribed, same thing. Click
download headers a few times (300), and it stopped at 2/17 as the oldest,
with half of them shown as re: to older post, but the earlier posts cut off.
Uped download headers to max 1000, and no surprise no difference. Reset XP
to yesterdays settings, same thing. I can find nothing in options, tools,
etc., that will retrieve all the old posts. Now it appears to be
downloading new stuff ok, it's just limiting old posts to 2/17, and dumped
the old tags. Shit!! Weird!! Anyone???
I DO NOT need comments about what a piece of trash OE is, and I should be
using yadda, yadda, etc.... OE has done the jobs for XX years with no
problems, so Constructive comments on solving This will be appreciated..
TIA
Don
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| Quilljar wrote:
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> Yes but....Oh nothing !
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misspelled butt d:-> ))
Yeah, I know - may have to consider an alternative, BUT hate to pay extra
for something, usually just to get rid of ad headers, that really doesn't
appear to do anything OE does, since all I need are the bare fundamentals.
I'm an old dog that isn't fond of learning new tricks that have no clear
advantage..
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| Marshall Banana 2005-02-24, 6:05 pm |
| Also Sprach CRASH <sorry@aint-here.spam.com>:
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> Quilljar wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> misspelled butt d:-> ))
quote:
> Yeah, I know - may have to consider an alternative, BUT hate to pay extra
> for something,
Who says you have to pay for anything???
Dan
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I know engineers. They love to change things.
-- Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy
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| Dallas 2005-02-24, 6:05 pm |
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"CRASH"
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> I DO NOT need comments about what a piece of trash OE is, and I should be
> using yadda, yadda, etc....
I won't diss ya about OE... but I gotta wonder why you keep all those old
posts? How do you manage all that?
Anyway maybe some help:
I have never tried this! Back up your stuff before you do it.
Exit OE.
Search your hard drive for "alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim".
You should finds some hits in C:\Documents and Settings\
Like: alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim.dbx
My guess is that the newsgroup data is stored there, I'd rename it, restart
OE and resubscribe and see what happens.
Dallas
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| Melissa 2005-02-24, 6:05 pm |
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Hi Dallas,
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:28:24 GMT, you wrote:
quote:
> I won't diss ya about OE... but I gotta wonder why you keep all
> those old posts? How do you manage all that?
It's been several years since I've even wanted to look at OE, but one
of the things I remember about it was its occasional problems with
large databases becoming corrupt.
If an OE user insists on saving a great deal of messages, perhaps
something like Fookes Software's "Mailbag Assistant" might be
something to look into (from the same people who bring us the great
"NoteTab Pro" text editor). It's a great mail archiving and search
program, and can deal with the database formats of several different
email clients; including OE. If anyone's interested, Mailbag
Assistant can be found here:
http://www.fookes.com/mailbag/index.php
My email and news programs of choice don't seem to have problems with
large message databases, but I use Mailbag Assistant anyway (along
with burning MBA archives to CD), just so that I don't have to risk
losing certain messages I really want to keep for future reference.
- --
Melissa
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| Dallas wrote:
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> but I gotta wonder why you keep all
> those old posts? How do you manage all that?
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Nothin to manage, they just sit there, but handy to scroll back/up to look
at the oldies but goodies (usually..), or good for a search to dredge
something up ya can't remember, etc...
quote:
> You should finds some hits in C:\Documents and Settings\
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Yup, beatcha to it, but thanks anyway!! Didn't have to resubscribe, those
entries were still there, and it just udated like a nice new install.
Unsubscribe still leaves the old dbx, there were several I hadn't used for
at least a year (motel.teen.cheerleader, etc  that got dumped with the
corrupt ones.
Cheers'n Beers.. [_])
Don
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| Arthur 2005-02-24, 10:01 pm |
| Definitely something you might want to 'Fooke' around with : )
Arthur
{SNIP}
"Melissa" <willkayakforfoodREMOVE_THIS@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:p5zxn50lqdd.dlg@uni-berlin.de...
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> If an OE user insists on saving a great deal of messages, perhaps
> something like Fookes Software's "Mailbag Assistant" might be
> something to look into (from the same people who bring us the great
> "NoteTab Pro" text editor). It's a great mail archiving and search
> program, and can deal with the database formats of several different
> email clients; including OE. If anyone's interested, Mailbag
> Assistant can be found here:
quote:
> - --
> Melissa
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| Dallas 2005-02-25, 4:01 am |
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"CRASH"
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> there were several I hadn't used for
> at least a year (motel.teen.cheerleader, etc
Yeah, right...
I was there just last week and saw some of your new posts.
Dallas
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| John Ward 2005-02-25, 10:00 pm |
| Hi Dallas,
So what's Crash's moniker on that group?? :-))
Regards,
John Ward
"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
news:6RyTd.5406$873.2798@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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> "CRASH"
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> Yeah, right...
> I was there just last week and saw some of your new posts.
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> Dallas
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| Dallas 2005-02-26, 4:00 am |
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"John Ward"
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> So what's Crash's moniker on that group?? :-))
The Candy Man
Dallas
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| Dallas wrote:
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> "John Ward"
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> The Candy Man
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Candy's dandy, but liquor's quicker..........
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