🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <AB5FD6FA9668F7CBE@sw15.demon.co.uk>,
laurent@sw15.demon.co.uk (Laurent Humbert) wrote:

>In article <chris-0802952316080001@vader.demon.co.uk>,
>chris@vader.demon.co.uk (Chris Dabrowski) wrote:
>
>>When I open a datafile after such a crash it
>>takes a lot longer than usual.
>>I presume its going through the "Compact"
>>or "Purge" function in the program, unfortunately it's deleting
>>information I want.
>
>What NewsHopper does when it detects that the newsfile wasn't closed
>properly is recreate a new index table. This is why opening the file takes
>a bit longer. No articles are deleted or purged in this process.

NewsHopper DEFINITELY deletes articles after a crash. During a download,
the article names are shown in the "NewsFetcher" window. If a crash occurs,
the downloaded articles AND their headers VANISH from the datafile.
Usually, the remaining marked headers are unaffected.

The crashes seem to become more frequent as the datafile gets larger but
they have happened even with fresh datafiles. Also 99% of them occur during
downloading (NewsHopper only ever crashed once when not online so its
probably unrelated), this suggests a conflict between NewsHopper and
MacTCP/MacPPP. The only thing I haven't tried reinstalling is my system,
but I can't see how I can have a corrupt system as the only program that
crashes with any regularity and predicatably is NewsHopper.