Browse headers problem

[bonalymac]

Its a long long time since I tried this. And I may be doing it wrong.

Rather than do internet search, I wanted to download all headers, and then browse them. Right clicking on the Group and selecting Download all headers, and I get told I'm downloading 2,518,646 headers, taking about 10 mins to complete.

When its complete, clicking on show all posts returns a blank window.

My spools folder shows me having a range.db3 file 12kb, and a Storage.db file of 44 kb, but it goes to that size almost immediately I start downloading, and then remains the same size throughout.

What am I doing wrong?

[Quade]

What's your "storage age" set to? If it's too short, it'll throw away all the newly downloaded headers that are older than that age.

Look down where it says "Cache X/Y (Z)"

Z represents the number of blocks of headers downloaded that still need importing. It should show some decreasing number after downloading a bunch of headers.

[bonalymac]

Thanks,

Download age was 30 days, I've increased it and re-downloading.

Z is currently 0

I'll retry now

PS


Thats working already, thanks

Looks like all older posts.

Thanks again

[Quade]

It's "Storage Age". "Download Age" only applies the first time you visit a groups. If you "Download All" you bypass "Download Age".

[bonalymac]

Thanks again. I had actually set Storage age, not download age, that was a typo.

All working now, thanks.