PC Crashed - lost all newsgroups

[dt]

My PC froze so I had to reboot it. All the newsgroups I subscribed too have vanished. I'm also unable to make "Get newsgroup list" or "Rescan newsgroup list" do anything (i.e. no newsgroup lists are being collected from any server I am subscribing too despite all the server details having been retained.

What's annoying is I think that much of the required database data may still exist. The folder where it all was is 1.33Gb in size; 1.24Gb of this is the "Newsgroups" folder inside that.

Is there any way to make use of any of the data I have on my hard disk in these folders? Also, does anyone have any suggestions for how to retrieve up to date newsgroup lists or try to get UE to 'remember' what newsgroups I was subscribed too (ideally also getting back all the headers that I think I still have).

[prusiner]

I am exactly in the same situation.

After a power outage I restarted UE. Verifying took a lot and after program startup was complete nothing was there except for server data. I have more than 4 Gb of unsaved bodies. Is there any possibility for returning them to life?

[hholland]

I suppose you have tried shutting down UE (normal exit), and then rebooting your system (restart), and then restart UE.

I had the problem, but that solved it for me

Hal

[prusiner]

I suppose you have tried shutting down UE (normal exit), and then rebooting your system (restart), and then restart UE.

I had the problem, but that solved it for me

Hal

Wrong supposition!!

I started to mess with it, trying to recover unsaved bodies, which I managed to do. But I had to start from scratch due to the mess.

Anyway this will be helpful for the next time so thank you very much.

[alex]

unsaved bodies which don't belong to any newsgroup should go to 'recycle bin'.

did you set periodic 'save all'? it could give much more consistency to the reg.dat file.

if you can describe how to recreate the problem (e.g. using the computer reset button instead of unpredictable freeze) i could increase fault tolerancy here.

to prevent damage from power outages there are UPS, cheap brands (around $35, about 20 min of power) work ok as well - for years.