WinXP SP2 and OE Ver 6.0.2900.2180 with latest updates.
I use a free News Server "Motzarella" as well as my ISPs News Server, to
back up a couple of news groups.
(The ISP News Server fails now and then).

I have a problem downloading one of the news groups through Motzarella, each
time I try, OE stops with "not responding".
(there are approx 3000 messages to download)
I have tried :
Synchronising - headers only (with and without get 300 messages set)
Not synchronising and "download with preview pane"
Subscribing and unsubscribing the offending NG and closing/opening OE (and
rebooting)

Latest attempts managed to download some headers, but then the "not
responding" feature kicked in again.

What's next, a chicken sacrifice at midnight ? :-)

Other news groups behave OK with OE

"Sunny" wrote in message
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WinXP SP2 and OE Ver 6.0.2900.2180 with latest updates.
I use a free News Server "Motzarella" as well as my ISPs News Server, to
back up a couple of news groups.
(The ISP News Server fails now and then).

I have a problem downloading one of the news groups through Motzarella,
each time I try, OE stops with "not responding".
(there are approx 3000 messages to download)
I have tried :
Synchronising - headers only (with and without get 300 messages set)
Not synchronising and "download with preview pane"
Subscribing and unsubscribing the offending NG and closing/opening OE (and
rebooting)

Latest attempts managed to download some headers, but then the "not
responding" feature kicked in again.


Just as a test, create a new Identity, set up the news account and subscribe
to only that one newsgroup and see how it behaves. If it's okay, go back to
the other Identity. delete that newsgroup then close OE and restart it, then
subscribe back to it and see how that works.


What's next, a chicken sacrifice at midnight ? :-)


Did you also have the beads, a cigar and a priest handy? :-)



Other news groups behave OK with OE


Could be just a corrupt dbx file.

"DGuess" wrote in message
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"Sunny" wrote in message
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WinXP SP2 and OE Ver 6.0.2900.2180 with latest updates.
I use a free News Server "Motzarella" as well as my ISPs News Server, to
back up a couple of news groups.
(The ISP News Server fails now and then).

I have a problem downloading one of the news groups through Motzarella,
each time I try, OE stops with "not responding".
(there are approx 3000 messages to download)
I have tried :
Synchronising - headers only (with and without get 300 messages set)
Not synchronising and "download with preview pane"
Subscribing and unsubscribing the offending NG and closing/opening OE
(and rebooting)

Latest attempts managed to download some headers, but then the "not
responding" feature kicked in again.


Just as a test, create a new Identity, set up the news account and
subscribe to only that one newsgroup and see how it behaves. If it's okay,
go back to the other Identity. delete that newsgroup then close OE and
restart it, then subscribe back to it and see how that works.


What's next, a chicken sacrifice at midnight ? :-)


Did you also have the beads, a cigar and a priest handy? :-)

Looks like the beads/cigar/priest is next,
Tried a new identity with similar results, OE locked up with 3699 headers
downloaded out of 23623.
Can't find the "error report" (found 4 others though).

"Sunny" wrote in message
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Looks like the beads/cigar/priest is next,
Tried a new identity with similar results, OE locked up with 3699 headers
downloaded out of 23623.
Can't find the "error report" (found 4 others though).



Just thought of this, when you unsubscribed and closed OE, did the
newsgroup's DBX file delete? If not, it will use it again. Check that and if
the dbx file for the newsgroup is still there, delete it then restart.

"Sunny" wrote in message
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WinXP SP2 and OE Ver 6.0.2900.2180 with latest updates.
I use a free News Server "Motzarella" as well as my ISPs News Server, to
back up a couple of news groups.
(The ISP News Server fails now and then).

I have a problem downloading one of the news groups through Motzarella,
each time I try, OE stops with "not responding".
(there are approx 3000 messages to download)
I have tried :
Synchronising - headers only (with and without get 300 messages set)
Not synchronising and "download with preview pane"
Subscribing and unsubscribing the offending NG and closing/opening OE (and
rebooting)

Latest attempts managed to download some headers, but then the "not
responding" feature kicked in again.

What's next, a chicken sacrifice at midnight ? :-)

Other news groups behave OK with OE

"DGuess" wrote in message
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"Sunny" wrote in message
...

Looks like the beads/cigar/priest is next,
Tried a new identity with similar results, OE locked up with 3699 headers
downloaded out of 23623.
Can't find the "error report" (found 4 others though).



Just thought of this, when you unsubscribed and closed OE, did the
newsgroup's DBX file delete? If not, it will use it again. Check that and
if the dbx file for the newsgroup is still there, delete it then restart.

Got me stumped :-)
1. The DBX file did delete,
2. Tried again by renaming the DBX file to OLD a couple of times as well,
result:
The news group DBX file stops at 2699KB (3699 - 3815 headers of approx
24000)
OE just quietly, with no fuss, stops responding :-)

(Where can I get the right kind of chickens?)

"Sunny" wrote in message
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Got me stumped :-)
1. The DBX file did delete,
2. Tried again by renaming the DBX file to OLD a couple of times as well,
result:
The news group DBX file stops at 2699KB (3699 - 3815 headers of approx
24000)
OE just quietly, with no fuss, stops responding :-)

(Where can I get the right kind of chickens?)

A little more :
"Catch up" seemed to work (indicated no messages left) but, as soon as the
offending news group is selected or is "synchronised", OE gives up.