Usenet Explorer

I am currently looking for a news client to replace Agent. Usenet Explorer is the second option I've tried so far and it looks promising save for this problem.

I just installed the client last night and started downloading binaries. I use Ctrl-D and then define a directory for it to save the attachments to once they are downloaded.

This worked for the first hundred attachments or so, and now it won't save them at all. It downloaded everything and lists it all in the Downloads tab, but every attempt to save them to a directory fails.

Does anyone know why this is happening, and why it failed completely after working just fine for a while?

System:
-Dell laptop, Pentium M 2.0, 2GB RAM, 100GB+ free drive space.

-Zone Alarm firewall

-Bitdefender antivirus configured to ignore the UE directory tree and saved attachment directory tree.

Basic troubleshooting (disabling AV, etc) skipped because the application functioned properly before the onset of the problem.

-Doc

Can you manually save the attachments? Try switching to the Downloads tab and right-click->Save attachments.

Did you accidentally select Suspend save queue? (Either on the toolbar or through File->Default toolbar->Suspend save queue)

You say you have 100GB+ free space. How much free space is on your save partition if you have separate partitions defined?

Did it stop saving while you were away or were you working in UE at the time?

P.S. Don't look on this as being a problem with UE - there are a great many options to configure which may be daunting to some people and some are not as well documented as even seasoned users would like. Check here for a user-created tutorial. Stick with it and you'll find it far exceeds anything Agent can currently do, especially if you do it the old fashioned way (downloading and manually checking headers).

EDIT: I forgot to mention that you should check Properties->Articles and see if Detect yEnc errors and/or Abort download when significant lines misreporting are checked. I think they are checked by default but I have them unchecked as they can interfere with the process. You can generally leave them unchecked if what you normally download has accompanying PAR files to repair them.

Josef K wrote:Did you accidentally select Suspend save queue?

Bingo! I must have done so without realizing it. As soon as I clicked it again it started processing all the downloaded files and saving them to the directories I'd defined for them. Thanks!

Josef K wrote:
P.S. Don't look on this as being a problem with UE - there are a great many options to configure ...

Although I had no idea why it had stopped working, I wasn't even close to giving up on the app yet. As for Agent, man, that thing hasn't been altered significantly in 10 years. Getting away from it was the best thing I've done in a long time.

Josef K wrote:EDIT: I forgot to mention that you should check Properties->Articles and see if Detect yEnc errors and/or Abort download when significant lines misreporting are checked.

They were and I unchecked them. Pretty much everything I DL includes PAR files. Thanks for the tip!

I'll check out the tutorial and let you know what I think towards the end of the trial.

Best regards,

-Doc