How does UE memorize the download status?

rbachl · Post by **rbachl** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:04 am

I do not understand how UE marks and memorizes certain bodies as downloaded. A downloaded single body is marked with a light blue icon with grey stripes, downloaded partial bodies of a collection are marked with green icons with grey stripes, and downloaded collections are marked with yellow icons with grey stripes. Correct me if I am wrong.

Now comes the more difficult part: If I delete the body from the downloaded list in the task manager, the marking for the downloaded status in the newsgroup window will also vanish. Is this a feature or a bug? Some other single bodies are still marked as downloaded although they do not appear in the downloaded window of the task manager. I do not know why that is the case. Since I am always storing the attachements and erasing the bodies, I do not have the downloaded status displayed for these bodies. Partially downloaded bodies are displayed correctly as partially downloaded (lower part of the icon in yellow or green) though.

If it is intended behavior to display downloaded status only for those bodies that are available in the task manager downloads window, then there is some problem with some of the icons in the newsgroup window wrongly marked. Moreover, it would be a very useful feature to memorize the downloaded status for all bodies that have been downloaded over the retention period of the newserver, regardless whether these have been deleted or not.

alex · Post by **alex** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:45 am

check settings in properties->articles->saving attachments.
if some bodies are left after saving but you want to delete them all you need to check "delete incomplete bodies" and uncheck "keep artilces with no attachments intact".

just if an article body will become complete later and you need everything again you will have to undelete old headers and download the bodies again.