The problem has been there for years. It's not new to SP2. Seems more
common on some news servers than others. I see it most on Microsoft's
news server. But it tends to come and go.

Maybe you've just been lucky.

If you Right click on a problem newsgroup and select Catchup, that may
clear up the problem for a while.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Cyberbilly" wrote in message
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
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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