completed bodies filter

slotboxed · Post by **slotboxed** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:09 am

I'd like to create a filter to show only completed articles - both single articles and partials.

I tried:

1. select messages not pending from all
2. extract messages with bodies from selected

but partials that are not complete (ones with checkmarks) still show.

Any ideas?

bruce73 · Post by **bruce73** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:34 pm

Try this:

Message Filter>messages are with bodies>extract

slotboxed · Post by **slotboxed** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:13 pm

Doesn't work. As soon as a piece of a partial has a body, it shows up. I'd like it so it doesn't show up until all pieces of a partial have downloaded their bodies, i.e. that the partial is complete. The program knows when this occurs, because the icon changes from a green box with a checkmark to a green document. I just don't know how to translate that event to a filter.

Edit: In other words, no partial that is not complete (no checkmarked icons) should ever appear using this filter. I guess I should mention that this is while articles are being downloaded. New icons appear in this window as they are downloaded. I just want completed attachments to appear. Multipart articles that are not fully downloaded (all parts) should not appear.

bruce73 · Post by **bruce73** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 11:38 pm

Gotcha. I misunderstood earlier; I thought you wanted to see downloaded parts of partials.

I'm not sure if this can be done. I tried a filter selecting/extracting only non-partial messages with bodies, but then the completed partial didn't show. So apparently, as far as a filter is concerned, NP doesn't see the completed partial as one message after it's fully downloaded, but a combination of several partial messages. Looks as if you can't have it both ways, if that makes sense.

I'll give it some more thought. If you come up with the solution, post back, as I'd be curious to know.

slotboxed · Post by **slotboxed** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 8:19 am

After observing the behavior more closely, I see that a checkmarked icon appears within the filter only when the first part of a partial has a completed body. If one could delay the first parts of partials to download only after all the rest of the parts of the partials were downloaded, then the filter would work as desired.

bruce73 · Post by **bruce73** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:58 pm

Right, NP uses the first part of the partial for identification. But to delay the downloading of the first part automatically seems a little tricky. If you use watch/save filters, you can prioritize them, so conceivably you could eliminate the *part01*/*.01 (or whatever) files from the first filter, give it a higher priority, and then specify them in another filter.

Or, manually, when you're selecting what to download, disable autosupport for partials, apply a filter that would select only the first parts, and set them to download with a low priority. Then select the rest with a higher priority. That way, the first parts wouldn't be downloaded until everything else has been.

slotboxed · Post by **slotboxed** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 12:23 am

An ability to sort on the icon column (by icon type) would make this filter unnecessary, or would at least minimize the hassle of selecting only complete downloads.

Edit: If one could sort the icon column by icon type, a filter could be created which would accomplish my goal. As it is, one CAN sort this column, but by what criteria it does so escapes me.