Greyed search service view context menu

03 Oct 23: One server was relocated, the server currently doesn't have a public IP address since in the meantime it is running on starlink. I wrote some additional tunnel code running separately to handle this. When the server is engaged the connection is 5600+ days uniform (since around 24 July 2008). In the unlikely case I disengaged the server because of some problem the retention is 1200-3800 days depending on newsgroup. If you experience any issue please let me know.

29 Nov 23: Because of encrypted and obfuscated posts flood mass posted by a few nzb indexing websites using usenet servers as private storage for their members to download the posts - the situation with the content is pretty chaotic since their purpose is to post in such a way, so users must use their website exclusively, when the website disappears - the encrypted posts just eat usenet providers' hard disk space uselessly. If you can't find something specific please let me know at alexbirj at gmail dot com what exactly you can't find for me to check how it is possible to retain the posts. Non-obfuscated posts shouldn't be affected at all, let me know if you notice anything missing.

29 Nov 23: The search protocol had to be upgraded to extend 3 byte (16M+) limit on the server side for number of sets per instance, so at least the version 5.8.3 is needed to access it, otherwise should be no any difference.
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pls
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Greyed search service view context menu

Post by pls »

This one is curious. After doing a search, I am intending to do "Download and Save" on several of the collections from the search page.

The first time I click Download and Save, it works fine.

The second time, nothing happens. And if I again right click on a collection, all of the downlaod and import related items on the context menu are grayed out. I have to exit and restart the program before I can get another entry to download.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
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alex
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Greyed search service view context menu

Post by alex »

Greyed (disabled) just means operation in progress.

The "Search" button is also changed to "Cancel", just wait until it becomes "Search" again.

Header import of several collections means it needs to download a lot of message-ids, if they are too random it will be significant volume of traffic, so it won't be immediate.

You may try to import collections (especially large ones) one by one so every operation will be faster.

You can press "Cancel" to stop the current operation whether it is search or import - it will be aborted and the menu items will be reenabled right away.
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