Bruce
Since Ed cannot see your reply, I emailed your post.
His reply is below.
George Gee
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Hi George,
Thank you. I have followed the instructions from Bruce Hagen of the OE NG,
which you had emailed me. You won't believe how long of a process this has
been (I forgot to mention in my post that I'm on dialup.)
Results? I am back to a worse scenario:
1) Now, messages for both ME NG and OE NG only go up to 12/8/2006.
2) Because of the above condition, if you will, I now can't see neither new
posts, nor my own posts in either NG. I've elected not to post any further,
since I can not view the new messages, nor can I see my own posts. Note that
I don't wish to be perceived as indifferent - I just don't have access!
Sad, isn't it?
Just wanted to make a point on Bruce's instructions, the first step
specified to "uncheck": Get XXX headers at a time......Well, when the reset
switch was cleared on Properties, I had 40 thousand plus messages downloaded
on OE NG - this took 3 hours to complete (why it went back to Dec. 14,
2005 - I don't know). The compacting took another hour.
In closing and to repeat myself, this has been an exercise in frustration,
especially when I'm now ready to throw this PC out the window.
I'm curious about what you indicate on your last email - that is, the
Earthlink reporting of similar problems as mine, and will go ahead and check
this out per your suggestion. Please keep me posted on any new
developments. Thanks.
I also want to thank you for your patience and truly appreciate your concern
and follow up.
What next? Feel free to share this message with Bruce Hagen, since I don't
know his email address.
Cheers,
Ed
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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View | Current View. Check Show all messages & Group messages by
conversation.
Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. Then, right
click on the newsgroup in the Folder Tree | Properties | Local File |
Reset. Switch to another folder and then back and all available messages
will be downloaded again.
It would be a good idea to compact your folders when you're done.
Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no folders are
open. Then: File | Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the
Status Bar). File | Folder | Compact all folders. Don't touch anything
until the compacting is completed.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~
"Ed Meza" wrote in message
news
Hello,
This is a two-fold problem:
1) On NG microsoft.public.windows.me.general I can not get any new
messages
pass 12/8/2006.
2) When posting to the above NG I also can't view my own posts. (Through
emails, which work - I have been referred to this NG....(I hope it
posts!)
Running Win ME, IE 6.0 SP1, OE 6.0
I have tried the following without any progress:
1) Unsubscribed from the NG and re-subscribed. Downloaded messages still
go
up to 12/8/2006 (Nothing new shows up from that date on!)
2) Have reset through priorities and cleared messages. Same problem.
3) Have restored the system twice. First to 12/6/2006 (no change) and
then
to 11/19/2006.
These options did not change anything either.
The only thing I noticed is that I've been getting Script errors when
connecting to OE thru my ISP. No major changes have been made to my PC
and
I have been running the antivirus program (Avast), S&D and the
maintenance
wizard to clean files, run risk scan and defrag every other day. No
problems show up.
Should you need more info please let me know. I would appreciater any
help.
Ed