"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
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"Cyberbilly" wrote in message
news:KeQQg.174$b23.62@dukeread07...

Very often, (OK, most of the time), the newsgroup will say "NNN messages
not
downloaded", and show that number in the blue parentheses next to the
newsgroup name, but no matter how many times I click on the Headers
button,
no more messages will download.


That's normal. OE is just proving that it can do arithmetic on your
computer.

Or CAN'T do arithmetic, as the case my be.


If you want to see how it did its calculation turn on Troubleshooting
logging
for News (via Maintenance tab). Recreate your symptom. Turn off
logging
and look for a file having the same name as the name that you are using
for that news account and with an extension of .log. It will be in the
same
directory that your OE Message Store is in. The data that you are
interested
in is the news server's 211 responses to OE's group requests.

The most common instance of this symptom is that the server gives an
illogical
"estimate" (e.g. more messages than are possible within the range implied
by the response) and OE dumbly calculates the difference as the number
of messages left to download.

Check it, then ignore it or wait for the server to give a logical
estimate.
Neither side is technically wrong, just stupid.


Thanks, but one last question: Why didn't I have this problem before the SP2
upgrade?

-CB