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While searching on this forum for another issue, I ran across a hint from either Quade or Dexter that said if one chooses to search on (in my case) 'Unsorted' using a blank search parameter, the resulting file list would be the last 24 hours of newest files posted for those in that 'Unsorted' group. I have been using this daily for weeks now until today. It quit working approximately 14 hours ago (age of newest files in list) probably from something I did but have no idea about.

My news server has the posts since I can update the groups in a normal fashion.

Any ideas what I might have done to trigger this?

Thanks,

Laurie

version 6.42 build 2146

It's working here. Is the source still set to "Internet"?

So it is peculiar to my instal.

Source is set to internet.

I just downloaded the latest group updates and everything is fine there. I receive '00 hour' posts.

I can search for one of those '00 hour' posts and it comes up on the search tab but now the most recent blank search is 15:38 with the same 539 search results.

The only thing I have done in the past few days is set up some 'subject reject' filters to deal with the inevitable porn that shows up where it doesn't belong.

Sounds silly but I shall do a reboot right now...

Laurie

EDIT: Nope - that didn't help.

I DID shutdown last night before all the files in my list had finished but have never had a problem with that before.

EDIT #2: Instead of a blank search on 'Unsorted' I chose 'All Groups' and it worked. I received a list of 4624 '00 hours' and a couple at the bottom of the list of 5 and 15 days.

One more wrinkle - The newest file I get on the search list is now 16:02 old. That puts it at ~ 10:30 last night as it is now 2:34 PM here. I shut down before 10:00 PM last night as I watched the 10:00 news. Hmmmm....

Wrinkle #2 - The posts are gradually working their way OFF the bottom of the list when they reach the 24:00 hour age mark. 534 posts on the list now.

Obviously this isn't a show stopper but it is a great feature that I was using every day.

Laurie

So I wondered if there was something in one group that was causing a problem so I created a couple of new GOG's and started to blank search on my groups one at a time. There is one group that will not return but 4 posts (but should return at least 1000). The other groups in a different GOG work okay in blank search mode.

Laurie

Final Word: Checked that 4 post group and what used to be my go to group for tv shows is now chock full of cr@p. No idea why I never noticed it before now. Tis gone - never to darken my doorstep again.

PM me the group. I'll check it out.

You know we don't catalog JPG's right?