Usenet Explorer

hi
I'm a registered user
this morning when i opened UE i got informed about the new version 1.1.3
(btw Yesterday I downloaded 1.1.2). After the download I overwrote old ue.exe in my program folder.
Started ue as usual and got new headers on all subscribed groups and....
all my older headers where vanished !!! UE kept only headers from last 5 days !!! I had over 5 millions headers in some groups (using Giganews they have over 50 days retention so a lot of those headers were pretty old)
I changed no option at all since yesterday. I have always used 50d in the retention field for default group, so all my groups will have that retention.......
I tried reset 1 group and star downloading again..... he keeps downloading only last 5 days.....
Only method i found to overcome this is: delete newsgroup from list, subscribe again and download headers. This way UE will download again all headers on server.

Is this a bug ? Or the new age / date thing works this way ? I haven't read any note before installing the new version.. just download overwrite and run. Maybe my fault ?

no, i made just a small change, like in sprintf it was "%d.d" i changed it to "%d.%d" it couldn't bring any damage since it only didn't use one argument, stack is not affected by the format string in this case, it is the opposite if there are less arguments than needed it will go beyond the function argumants in stack (if you understand what i'm talking about).

as to the second problem i'm checking some variable for being zero, just there was a single crash from a trial version (since usually task manager is used as docking window or if not it is likely to be open when you press the new switch dates/age button, the probability is small and i'm lucky to get this crash, i mean all is pretty straightforward).

so 1.12 and 1.13 are practically the same.

with v1.13 there are no crashes up to now.

try to check your settings in properties->newsgroups for newsgroups which you didn't delete yet, maybe you accidentally put 5 instead of 50 somewhere (ue has checksum verification so it cannot change it itself).

when you reset newsgroup it also resets the header range so it should download all headers again.

moreover unless you use article number newsgroup destination type (do you?) ue cannot delete headers unless it is retention defined in properties->newsgroups (with article numbers newsgroup destination type the reason may be server changed article numbering).

it means you set retention 5 days or the date on your computer was wrong when you started ue.

dates/age is a very small option, it only changes how the date column is displayed in newsgroup views, it is 10 strings of code in the function for displaying the date in the date column, no connection to retention or the database, like if today is 29 Oct 2005 and article was posted 24 Oct 2005 when you set it to age it will show e.g. 5d (days old) instead, just few people asked for that over time.