Failed Task Reporting

voripteth · Post by **voripteth** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 3:39 pm

I saw something this morning that has me a bit confused. I marked some articles for downloading the attachments. Later I come back to see that NewsPro has these tagged as "Failed" and the task manager shows that there is no article with the specified number. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but I go to my download directory and there are the attachments!

What I'm guessing happened is one server didn't have the articles so NewsPro switched to another server which did have them. If that was the case then I would think that NewsPro should NOT generate a failed task message. After all, the task did successfully complete.

alex · Post by **alex** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:38 pm

Probably you have 'retry failed articles every x min' in properties->general set to some value, so they failed at first, then after retrying they succeeded. Despite the error messages (in task manager - error pane, or console) they won't be retried or saved, these are just error reports from previous attempts.

If you see the question sign icon in the header list (newsgroup window) maybe these were other attachments.

Tha*Lunat!k · Post by **Tha*Lunat!k** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:38 pm

Some providers, such as UseNetServer, have problems with available articles being reported as not available. If this were the case on your service then you may have failed to get the message and it aborted, but then after a certain amount of time NewsPro retried and managed to get the files after all.

voripteth · Post by **voripteth** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:41 pm

NewsFeeds was certainly having some problems with know what articles it had. I got a list of newsgroups and then got new headers on populated groups only to have it report that the selected groups had no headers. Weird.

I'll have to see how my retries are set up.

voripteth · Post by **voripteth** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:43 pm

Pilot error. Now that I take a closer look at the error messages and the attachments I see that the ones reported really ARE missing. NewsPro is doing things correctly.

Silly of me to doubt.