help newsbin downloading all headers

[masimo]

Yesterday I found that the pause was not working. I went to scheduler and turned it off. Pause began to work again.

Next time I checked the newsgroups there were 35k+ "new" headers in the bin. Dates went back to several hundred days. I cleaned it out and now I just checked again and there are again thousands of new headers with old dates and all the new stuff is not there.

I changed nothing except turning off scheduler and that was changed only because it was already misbehaving. It is still using the same directory and the retention settings have not changed: download age 800, display 3, storage 1000.

I am running on a windows virtual machine on a macbook pro using parallels. The only thing I recall doing differently lately is suspending windows when I rebooted the mac with newsbin still open while suspended. I usually close newsbin when I suspend but didn't this time.

Any idea of what is happening and how can I fix it other than just letting it continue to download until it his the max age again.

thanks,

Mike

[Quade]

It might be the server sending the wrong group range. I've seen that a bunch recently.

Probably the best way to reset it is to right click the group, select "Post Storage/Use Download Age"
Then set a 5 day download age.
Then update the group.

[masimo]

turned out that parallels somehow assigned the same logical disk to two different physical disks in windows. The old link went to a new disk without a newsbin download directory so it went ahead and created a new directory then did just as it should according to the setting.

rebooted parallels so it found the old original disk and everything is back to normal.

lesson: in parallels don't suspend with newsbin running. shut it down then suspend and there is no problem.

Mike