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Hi

I discovered a strange bug indeed.
I invoked download and save (ctrl-d) on the post you see below this mail. After downloading the post was marked light gray as with all the downloaded and saved bodies and I expected to find the files on disk with the attachement of the articles but I found only 1 file with a very odd name (null)
Yep exactly the 'null' word inside 2 parenthesis. First time happened to me.

Below there is the F4 output of UE on the article headers (sorry It's a bit lenghty but maybe can be useful to you for debug.

I'm using version 1.98 and auto Collections enabled (basically I see the posts as 1 collection and I invoked Ctrl-D on that one)

This the first time happened something similar in about 2 years i'm using UE.

And I have no problems at all with other attachements in the same group or in other groups.


Selected posts: 4
Total parts: 11
Available parts: 11 (100%)
Parts with bodies: 11 (100%)
Size: 4.06 MB

Subject: Poker Books - Good Luck at the Tables "Insider Secrets of Online Poker (Theodore Cage).pdf" (*/4)
Author: jayelbee <jayelbee@jlb>
Date: Wed, Aug 15 00:14
Partial: Total: 4; Available: all; Bodies: all.
Parts:
Part: (1/4) Message-ID: <QeSdnTFQ3d9KSVzbnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Part: (2/4) Message-ID: <dY6dnX8u9aNDSVzbnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Part: (3/4) Message-ID: <Hu-dnam_moh_SVzbnZ2dnUVZ_uDinZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Part: (4/4) Message-ID: <Vc2dnXFUzs90SVzbnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical

Subject: Poker Books - Good Luck at the Tables "Poker Books (Aug 2007).vol001+002.PAR2" (*/2)
Author: jayelbee <jayelbee@jlb>
Date: Tue, Aug 14 23:29
Partial: Total: 2; Available: all; Bodies: all.
Parts:
Part: (1/2) Message-ID: <QeSdndNQ3d_FV1zbnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Part: (2/2) Message-ID: <Vc2dnRFUzs_CV1zbnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical

Subject: Poker Books - Good Luck at the Tables "Super System (Doyle Brunson).pdf" (*/2)
Author: jayelbee <jayelbee@jlb>
Date: Tue, Aug 14 23:57
Partial: Total: 2; Available: all; Bodies: all.
Parts:
Part: (1/2) Message-ID: <QeSdnRRQ3d9_TVzbnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Part: (2/2) Message-ID: <Vc2dnVpUzs97TVzbnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical

Subject: Poker Books - Good Luck at the Tables "The Education Of A Poker Player (Herbert O. Yardley).pdf" (*/3)
Author: jayelbee <jayelbee@jlb>
Date: Tue, Aug 14 23:57
Partial: Total: 3; Available: all; Bodies: all.
Parts:
Part: (1/3) Message-ID: <dY6dnSMu9aNLTVzbnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Part: (2/3) Message-ID: <Hu-dnZK_mohLTVzbnZ2dnUVZ_uDinZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical
Part: (3/3) Message-ID: <Vc2dnVtUzs9GTVzbnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@giganews.com> (has body)
Newsgroup: Import (import, msg-id direct)
Dests: alt.binaries.e-book.technical

But those are the actual attachment names as they were posted.

If you try to open the messages in the article view one by one or check the message source, you'll see all attachments have the same name "(null)".

So it is a poster bug, the newsreader header is:

X-Newsreader: Newsbin Pro 5.0

and the body:

=ybegin part=1 total=2 size=639595 line=128 name=(null)

You can select auto-rename option for duplicates in edit menu->properties->articles->duplicate file names , if attachments by themselves are ok, then just rename them or quickpar will do it.