Usenet Explorer

I really am enjoying the program. But any new program is going to have a learning curve.I have been reading the topics in the forum and as I work through things their use to me becomes clearer. I have two questions. 1. How do I get back to the headers once I do a partial download? For now what I do is go back to the search service subject box and click on search. It brings me back to the collections I am working on. Is there a better, faster, smarter way of doing this? (Gasp) X-news has a back arrow button but since I am a nooby here I cannot seem to find one.

2. I don't quite understand this Ram/header scenario? When I download headers I am only getting about 180-200 days of headers. I thought one of the strengths of this program it would allow for me to download several hundred thousand headers at a time. This was a big time problem with X-news and it would cause all kind of problems with threading and closing the group. I don't necessarily need any hand holding just point me to somewhere in the manual or somewhere on the internet for some intelligence on the matter. I monitor about 40-60 newsgroups and only about a dozen have more than 2.5 meg amount of headers. Most are in the 400-6y00,000 range. Now the search service is extremely helpful but I still like to do things the old-fashioned way t00.

Check settings edit menu->properties->save/unpack, save, saving attachments, if it deletes headers after save, in view menu->quick filter bar you can check "Del" on per window basis to see previously deleted headers.

If you purge headers yourself - you need to invoke view menu->workspace, newsgroups, advanced->reset header ranges to redownload older headers.

Retention settings are in edit menu->properties->newsgroups, retention and headers per server. If it doesn't download headers within the retention - try to contact your provider, sometimes header retention is less than retention of bodies (e.g. for astraweb it is the same).