auto-shutdown enables itself

[dane]

Hi - no matter how many times I uncheck auto-shutdown on the advanced tab of options, it seems to re-enable itself and starts shutdowns when the download queue empties. When I'm watching and see the warning I can kill it, but often it just shuts down. How can I make the change stick?

thanks,
DaDane

[Quade]

1 - use "File Save As" to find out where your NBI file is. Don't actually rename it. Just cancel out. It should be in the data folder.

2 - Use an editor like "Wordpad" to look in the NBI file.

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[settings]
AutoShutdown=?


This is the setting that controls shutdown.

3- Check the setting see if it's 1 or zero.

4 - Exit the editor, start Newsbin, uncheck the setting, then hit the second icon on left of the main toolbar to save or exit Newsbin.

5 - Repeat #2 and look in the NBI file again. If it's not "0" then I suspect Newsbin can't write to the NBI file.

6 - You can manually set it to zero in the editor then save the file and try again. If that works, it suggests there's some permission problem saving the NBI setting.

You need to make sure Newsbin isn't running when you manually change the NBI.

[dane]

Thanks Quade - I've done as you've outlined and the result in the file is "0". I'll monitor it to make sure it stays zero.

Appreciate it,
DaDane