I had a hardware problem on my PC and UE seems to have lost some headers.
I had downloaded the attachments, then Undeleted the headers (I like to keep them in the group so I can see that I downloaded them). I have UE and its database on its own little disk drive, but after I fixed the hardware problem, I started UE and saw that several of these headers were missing (the whole season one of a tv show). I thought maybe they'd just been deleted, clicked to show deleted - nothing. Hmm... did a rescan of the newsgroup that should have contained these headers, still nothing.
I thought doing a rescan always restored missing headers. Is there something else I can do? Or do I need to reset the headers in that group then get headers? (I'd rather not do this as I use custom groups and this would lose this info)
Any thoughts or suggestions?
thanks Larry
ps - again, this was not caused by UE, at least not directly.
Edit note - I have "Natural" header deletion in this group, so it shouldn't have timed out.
Lost headers from system crash
Re: Lost headers from system crash
Try to right click on the newsgroup in the workspace and invoke advanced->reset header ranges.
There are rescan settings in properties->general which limit the scope of headers rescanned, but maybe it is just simpler to reset the header range so all headers will be redownloaded.
There are rescan settings in properties->general which limit the scope of headers rescanned, but maybe it is just simpler to reset the header range so all headers will be redownloaded.
Re: Lost headers from system crash
I guess that's my only hope.
Tell me tho... the difference between a rescan and reset & normal header get is that all my custom collections will be lost with the reset, right?
thanks, Larry
Tell me tho... the difference between a rescan and reset & normal header get is that all my custom collections will be lost with the reset, right?
thanks, Larry
Re: Lost headers from system crash
"advanced->reset header range" is not the same as "reset headers", resetting header range doesn't affect existing headers.
as to rescan you can check options in edit menu->properties->general, rescan headers, if you have "rescan only last x headers" empty and "only redownload" checked it should be the same result as reset header range.
as to rescan you can check options in edit menu->properties->general, rescan headers, if you have "rescan only last x headers" empty and "only redownload" checked it should be the same result as reset header range.
Re: Lost headers from system crash
Sorry if I'm a little dense here...
I can now see that one of my groups has a hole in the headers it has. I have retention set to 400 days. When sorted by date, I can see that has 400 days old to around 200 days old, then again just about 50 days old. I don't know if its missing little holes at other places, but this is a big one.
So if I do the "advance -> reset header range", UE will go back 400 days and fill in this and any other holes in my headers?
This group has a LOT of headers and I have a pathetically slow internet connection, getting headers from 400 days back will take 3 or 4 days time, I want to be sure that when this is done, the problem will be fixed.
thanks, Larry
I can now see that one of my groups has a hole in the headers it has. I have retention set to 400 days. When sorted by date, I can see that has 400 days old to around 200 days old, then again just about 50 days old. I don't know if its missing little holes at other places, but this is a big one.
So if I do the "advance -> reset header range", UE will go back 400 days and fill in this and any other holes in my headers?
This group has a LOT of headers and I have a pathetically slow internet connection, getting headers from 400 days back will take 3 or 4 days time, I want to be sure that when this is done, the problem will be fixed.
thanks, Larry