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Release Candidate 3 has a number of bug fixes and a couple more missing things have been hooked up

Summary:

• Hooked up sort on Status column
• Hooked up shortcuts for Hide Old and Show Filenames.
• Lots of small fixes (details in release notes)

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Thank you for the "Unrar" icon.

I appreciate it.

dexter wrote:[*]Hooked up shortcuts for Hide Old and Show Filenames.

This is great, thanks!

If there is a way to in the future keep the view, it would be even greater!
(Doesn't have to be exact; something like scrolling the view so the first (before repaint) selected post is visible after the repaint would do nicely (if it doesn't get hidden by turning on Hide Old, that is - in that case, current behaviour is fine as fallback:-)))

- mho

Thanks for fixing the focus when returning from another app (ctrl-R...)!

- mho

Hmm i cant understand why im seeing only posts that are set in my filter "global" yet it is not selected anywhere,(filter profile) groups settings dont have it turned on.. i had to deactivate it.


PS it would be nice to be able to manually specify the number of headers one wants to download.. not some fixed numbers only(50000 100000 5000000 etc)

Semel wrote:Hmm i cant understand why im seeing only posts that are set in my filter "global" yet it is not selected anywhere,(filter profile) groups settings dont have it turned on.. i had to deactivate it.

The global filter always applies (in addition to any specific filter you apply).

Ok, I just installed 6.0r3 over the lastest 5x version. I tried to reproduce the 3 pane window setup I had with 5x and no matter how I set it up, or how many different ways I try to, it's not remembered the next time I go to open a group's window. The GOG's that I open, all open in a full window pane behind my other panes. Am I missing something?

The search tab has to be open and in the position where you want the post tabs to show up. They anchor to the search tab. You probably hid the search tab.

If you delete the "Workspace.xml" file in the data folder, it'll reset the display back to square 1.

Ah, that was it....much better now...thanks!

Issue with NB not updating Post List when doing a "Download the Latest Group Updates" when downloading headers as they are being posted!

I've just uploaded a post and wanted to see it's progress as I was posting so I could catch any upload errors so I used the "Download the Latest Group Updates" but NB never updated the Post List after downloading the headers, only when I do a 'Show Posts' on the group does NB show the just downloaded headers.

This may be tied into the issue I have with image groups not showing all the headers after downloading them, doing a 'Show Posts' is the only way to see all the headers you just downloaded.

This may be too late to fix for the 'Final' release but it's something to consider for future betas if possible!

Noticed one other thing that's been happening with headers, in one group (a.b.g.dox) I've seen them download but no posts show mainly because this group I'm checking for headers is a low post group? I only have one server setup for headers (just checked) so can't see why headers are being pulled but no posts showing? e.g. today, did a show posts on that group, clicked the 'latest downloads' button and over 300,000 headers downloaded but there were none to see, so nothing had been posted since last time I checked!!

Looks like the next release (either RC4 or Final) I'll delete NB entirely and start from scratch and see what happens!! Maybe multiple upgrades over the same install has caused some problems, so a fresh install is probably the best option.

I've had nothing unusual at all with that group. Right click and Download All, that resets your spool better than reinstalling newsbin. Then show all posts. You should see everything that's on the server. If you still see nothing, check the logging tab for messages.

DT

I don't think I explained myself clearly!!

I've got all the headers for the group, but NB seems to be pulling headers sometimes when there has been no posts to that group. I checked with Forte Agent and there have been no new posts for about 20 hours, I have the same posts showing in both Forte/NB but NB downloaded over 300,000 headers when I checked a few hours ago so where did those headers come from and where did they go?

A fresh install is probably better as something seems to be pooched!

I doubt a fresh install will change anything. The range.db3 tells Newsbin what to download next from the groups. Maybe it's corrupted for this group.

I can't think of anything you can't fix in Newsbin by deleting a couple files.

Right, I've deleted the Stored Posts and deleted the group in NB, deleted the folder in SPOOL_V6, re-added the group and downloaded all the headers again so we'll see if this cures it.

Quade wrote:The search tab has to be open and in the position where you want the post tabs to show up. They anchor to the search tab. You probably hid the search tab.

If you delete the "Workspace.xml" file in the data folder, it'll reset the display back to square 1.

Very important points. I was going crazy trying to figure out whether the undocked post tabs were by design or not. Thanks!