Newsbin vs another reader/incompletes vs completes

[mr_kidd]

Hey all, I've been an off/on user of newsbin for years. Can't say I'm comfortable using it or fully understand how it works. So I've got a problem that I was hoping someone might have an idea about.

I signed up for a new service, configured Newsbin to use it and started happily dnloading some data. The end result was just about every file being incomplete even the pars. To try to save +20GB of useless data on my hard drive I decided to test the new service by using their newsreader to grab those pars and see if it suffered from incompletes as well. It did not. It downloaded the pars and I was able to repair one of my dnloads.

So, the question is, why is newsbin dnloading the files as incomplete while the service's own newsreader dnloads them as complete? What should I be looking at to help determine this?


One more question, I've got a bunch of *.nb2 files that's obviously some of the data I'm trying to rescue. Since Newsbin isn't dnloading anymore of those files is it just a matter of removing the Newsbin naming scheme from those file names and running repair on them? How can I work with this data to "fix" it?

[Quade]

What version are you using?

It did not. It downloaded the pars and I was able to repair one of my dnloads.

Sounds like it was incomplete in both places so, the issue doesn't seem to be incompletes with and without Newsbin but, incompletes that never automatically assembled. 6.40 is pretty aggressive about assembling incompletes and downloading the pars. I'd suggest using 6.40 if you aren't.

NB2 files are the partial downloads, in Newsbin you ought to be able to right click the files and "Assemble Incompletes" to convert the NB2's into files. It's after this conversion that Newsbin downloads the pars.

[lordkinbote]

Assemble incomplete hasn't worked for me in the last few builds. I'm on 6.40 build 2059 now and pretty much since 6, it hasn't worked. Is there something I can do to possible reset it and kick start it?