"walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:46:17 +0000:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:09:48 -0700, Jeff Berman wrote: >> >> I just noticed that Binary subject lines are sometimes >> formatted funny, like "Test_File.rar (/53)"... > > I've often seen similar things, usually when one part of a > multi-part post is displayed twice, with two different sets > of numbers: > > foo.part12.rar (8/27) > foo.part12.rar (/27) > > As far as I can tell, the /27 notation means that the post > is complete. On the other hand, when I click on both of > the above articles I get *two* complete downloads of the > file foo.part12 stored on disk. The /nnn format means what you guessed, but it's a relatively new change. Among other things it saves a few bytes in the database, but mainly, it was done as part of a bugfix for a problem where the same posts were showing up multiple times, once tracked with one number (say 8/27) once with another (say 5/27). The fix collapsed the individual part number out so pan would always see it as the same post. Charles warned that the fix worked for new posts but didn't fix existing entries in the database, and that those who needed that would have to delete the database (IIRC the groups subdir, but you could try individual files inside if you are only seeing the issue with a couple groups of many) and re-d/l headers. Since you weren't following the group/list well enough to know what it was, it's fairly safe to presume you didn't delete the db and where you see duplicate entries, one 8/27 and one simply /27, it's because the entry with the 8 is from before the fix. FWIW, here, I work with a multi-gig cache (pan defaults to 10MB, it's set by hand in preferences.xml), download to cache a bunch of stuff, sort thru it, erasing headers as I'm done with them, then erasing cache when I'm done with everything. I was in the middle of one such cycle when the upgrade came, a bit frustrated with duplicates but working thru them, and decided it wasn't worth worrying about since I'd soon be done with them anyway. After I finished that cycle and deleted both headers and cache, I haven't seen the problem again, even working with the existing db. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
