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if newspro cannot open a file it will give a relevant error message, unknown socket error comes from winsock (or rather firewall which controls winsock); all customized newspro errors are in the range 20001 - 20025 but it won't report it as unknown socket error. Sorry to take so long in getting bac...

normally compact article storage always should be enabled, the option left from very old versions. unknown socket error is not connected to maximal number of files in the directory (the directory size limit is only is for FAT32 partitions, NTFS doesn't have such a limit). if you have firewall try t...

... if you want small article bodies too you need to disable compact article storage in properties->general in the instance from which you copy the files. I'd like to know what enabling Compact Article Storage does anyway, since I seem to be hitting the limit for maximum bodies stored in the databa...