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In article <3537EEC1.2E01FC57@infotrek.demon.co.uk>, David Croft
<david@infotrek.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I've had a number of queries over the past few days about Groups
> freezing at "Retrieving subscribed groups" so here is the problem
> and the solution.
> 
> For some reason (dodgy newgrouping?) a blank line has appeared in the
> newgroups file. This can be found in !NewsDir.newsbase.newgroups
> (or thereabouts). Try deleting the blank line and running Groups again.
> 
> I can't tell offhand whether it is a Groups or Newsbase problem
> (probably the former, in which case it will be fixed shortly).

I checked mine: there were two blank lines at the beginning before all the
groups.  At least, all they had was a 2 on one and a 9 on the other. No
mention of any groups.

I deleted them.  Since then I've had no freeze-up and the d/l time has
dropped by 10secs.  Thanks David.

Terry.


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