Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
I'm trying to look at some of the threads from March and April this year
and am getting nowhere. If I show enough patience I can get the
Article not found
page which also offers the "Remove All Expired Articles" button, but
clicking on it does not change the total number shown in the index or
fix the problem.
It is (obviously) not the thread which interested me, but I get this
effect on both of the test/Test posts from Frog on 7th and 8th of April
(your timezone may vary).
Older threads work ok, as do newer ones.
I've seen this kind of thing happen occasionally, and it's not the
newsgroup itself, but how it's handled within your profile, possibly
with indexing.
What you probably should do is go to the Properties of the newsgroup,
and in the General Information, select Repair Folder. That one should
force downloading of all the headers (or as many as you choose) and
re-indexing.
Given the size of this newsgroup (my display shows a little over 114,000
messages), that will take some time to do, and in my experience, if you
do all of them, you're likely to see scripting timeout errors, where you
have to grant permission for scripts to continue to run.
Although I'm enthusiastic about advising users moving to a new machine
to simply copy the entire profile from one to another, I found that the
last time I made a move myself, newsgroups with large histories were
problematic following the move, and for most of them, I generally had to
go through the task of repairing folders, sometimes more than once, and
on a couple of groups, I ended up having to unsubscribe and resubscribe.
In retrospect, I probably should have maximized downloading at
something on the order of 10,000 or 20,000 messages, and lessened both
the time it took to download headers, and the frequency of scripting
timeouts.
Smith
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