Hirogen wrote:What can I say it happens all the time, when I download all headers, when I do a server search and when using NZB files, it varies from 25 to 90 % files incompleet or corrupt.
Setup:
ISP 3 bots priority 1
news.usenetserver 6 bots priority 1
test.usenetserver 6 bots priority 1
When I download these files with either Xnews or Newsbin all files are just fine
Tried new clean install even an OS install but it keeps occuring with all my downloads will try out Beta 20 later today to see if that one fixes it.
One more thing with Beta 9 I didn't had that problem it started with beta 12
1. Ok. A clean install (which version of NL?) in a newly installed OS - correct?
So, the cache is brand new as well as the registry. Correct?
2. When you downloaded with Xnews and Newsbin, was article number or message-id used? NL beta 9 retrieved articles by article number, not message-id. Subsequent versions only use message-id. Just trying to narrow this down to (or eliminate) message-id problems with UNS or problems with UNS & NL. I've heard about message-id and sync problems (between front-end and back-end servers) in the past, but didn't know if the new owners had gotten the problems sorted out. Salami recently mentioned message-id problems with UNS with "older" articles. Also, it seems to me that most of the posts about the problem involves UNS servers (no statistics on this, just my often unreliable memory).
3. Also, try (if you haven't already) activating the "Send Group" command option. Since b15 doesn't work for you (correct?) I don't really expect this to solve all, but just see if it helps. Hey, it's easy, and might as well try.
4. Is it possible for you to try downloading from servers other than UNS?
Salami, good idea starting this thread to keep posts for this problem organized. The posts were getting too spread out. Difficult (at least for me) to follow.
0ne more thing. I don't use UNS or any of the unlimited accounts (with the exception of my ISP). I hadn't seen this "incomplete files" problem in a long time. But, I ran into this problem just after updating b19 to b20. Immediately after 2 groups were "cleaned (more that 50% garbage)", files started downloading as incomplete. The log showed "(incomplete file)". Thanks for that log entry Spiril. Definitely a help. The files had a status of "downloaded" and were no longer in the queue. Seemed like a cache problem to me. Resetting the 2 groups, which cleaned the cache and re-downloaded headers, solved the problem immediately. Just to make sure it wasn't a "cleaning" problem in b20, I cleaned the same groups, downloaded files, but could not duplicate the problem.
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