Just uncheck that option.

If you don't want all 300,000, then set it to download 50 at a time before
going to the NG. Go to the NG and get those 50. Then use Edit | Catch up
to set it to where all messages are considered downloaded. Then uncheck the
download 50 at a time, and you will then only get the newest messages.

Can you give me an example of the NG that has 300,000 messages? I'd like to
check it out and see how badly OE performs with such.

steve

"David Robinson" wrote in message
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Hi.

Does anyone know of a way of downloading more than 1000 headers at a time,
with some groups having more than 300,000 posts at a time this is a real
pain.

T.I.A