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Hello all,
I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates and IE7. I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go to a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it as read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read none at all. If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that *all* messages have been marked as read. I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so that they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get exactly the same result. This has been happening for a few days now. I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? Thanks, Patrick Keenan |
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"Patrick Keenan" wrote in message
... Hello all, I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates and IE7. I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go to a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it as read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read none at all. If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that *all* messages have been marked as read. I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so that they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get exactly the same result. This has been happening for a few days now. I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? Thanks, Patrick Keenan ... .and apparently, there's a handy checkbox to "mark all messages as read" when exiting a newsgroup! Ah well.. |
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Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Mark all messages as read when exiting a
newsgroup. IMHO, I would also uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message ... Hello all, I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates and IE7. I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go to a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it as read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read none at all. If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that *all* messages have been marked as read. I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so that they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get exactly the same result. This has been happening for a few days now. I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? Thanks, Patrick Keenan |
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I get the opposite. Win XP/SP2, IE7, OE6 all kept upto date.
Say when I have read all messages or even when I Select All and Mark All Messages As Read (and they ARE actually marked as read) the Newsgroup name still remains bold and a number in brackets indicates x number of messages as UNREAD. This of course is a nuisance as I have no idea of how many new messages I have to read. Even when I do a Catch Up and the News Group name is no longer bolded, the same problem recurs when I Synchronize All. Also why are these x number of messages are not downloaded. It says so in the bar on the bottom of the OE screen: the current one says "1 message(s), 0 unread, 3 not downloaded". Yet I don't have any filters to stop any messages being downloaded. I am thinking this problem may be more to do with my ISP or is it an OE6 problem? -- choro-nik ======== "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Mark all messages as read when exiting a newsgroup. IMHO, I would also uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message ... Hello all, I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates and IE7. I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go to a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it as read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read none at all. If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that *all* messages have been marked as read. I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so that they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get exactly the same result. This has been happening for a few days now. I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? Thanks, Patrick Keenan |
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Do you have "Get XXX headers at a time." unchecked?
-- Ronald Sommer "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... :I get the opposite. Win XP/SP2, IE7, OE6 all kept upto date. : : Say when I have read all messages or even when I Select All and Mark All : Messages As Read (and they ARE actually marked as read) the Newsgroup name : still remains bold and a number in brackets indicates x number of messages : as UNREAD. This of course is a nuisance as I have no idea of how many new : messages I have to read. Even when I do a Catch Up and the News Group name : is no longer bolded, the same problem recurs when I Synchronize All. : : Also why are these x number of messages are not downloaded. It says so in : the bar on the bottom of the OE screen: the current one says "1 message(s), : 0 unread, 3 not downloaded". Yet I don't have any filters to stop any : messages being downloaded. : : I am thinking this problem may be more to do with my ISP or is it an OE6 : problem? : -- : choro-nik : ======== : "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message : ... : Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Mark all messages as read when exiting a : newsgroup. : : IMHO, I would also uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. : -- : Bruce Hagen : MS-MVP Outlook Express : ~IB-CA~ : : "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message : ... : Hello all, : I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one : machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates : and : IE7. : : I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go : to : a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread : messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it : as : read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read : none at all. : : If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that : *all* messages have been marked as read. : : I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so : that : they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get : exactly the same result. : : This has been happening for a few days now. : : I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? : : Thanks, : Patrick Keenan : : : : : : : |
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That's immaterial. It still behaves that way whether "Get XXX headers at a
time.." is checked OR unchecked. -- choro-nik ======== "Ron Sommer" wrote in message ... Do you have "Get XXX headers at a time." unchecked? -- Ronald Sommer "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... :I get the opposite. Win XP/SP2, IE7, OE6 all kept upto date. : : Say when I have read all messages or even when I Select All and Mark All : Messages As Read (and they ARE actually marked as read) the Newsgroup name : still remains bold and a number in brackets indicates x number of messages : as UNREAD. This of course is a nuisance as I have no idea of how many new : messages I have to read. Even when I do a Catch Up and the News Group name : is no longer bolded, the same problem recurs when I Synchronize All. : : Also why are these x number of messages are not downloaded. It says so in : the bar on the bottom of the OE screen: the current one says "1 message(s), : 0 unread, 3 not downloaded". Yet I don't have any filters to stop any : messages being downloaded. : : I am thinking this problem may be more to do with my ISP or is it an OE6 : problem? : -- : choro-nik : ======== : "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message : ... : Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Mark all messages as read when exiting a : newsgroup. : : IMHO, I would also uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. : -- : Bruce Hagen : MS-MVP Outlook Express : ~IB-CA~ : : "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message : ... : Hello all, : I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one : machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates : and : IE7. : : I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go : to : a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread : messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it : as : read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read : none at all. : : If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that : *all* messages have been marked as read. : : I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so : that : they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get : exactly the same result. : : This has been happening for a few days now. : : I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? : : Thanks, : Patrick Keenan : : : : : : : |
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You did uncheck the option to mark messages read when leaving a newsgroup?
Tools | Accounts | News | Properties | General. Check: Include this account when checking for messages and don't bother with Syncing. Did you Reset the newsgroup after unchecking Get XXX headers? (Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now). Select the Group or Server at the top and then do a Reset followed by a Compact. If that doesn't do it, unsubscribe, reboot and resubscribe. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... That's immaterial. It still behaves that way whether "Get XXX headers at a time.." is checked OR unchecked. -- choro-nik ======== "Ron Sommer" wrote in message ... Do you have "Get XXX headers at a time." unchecked? -- Ronald Sommer "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... :I get the opposite. Win XP/SP2, IE7, OE6 all kept upto date. : : Say when I have read all messages or even when I Select All and Mark All : Messages As Read (and they ARE actually marked as read) the Newsgroup name : still remains bold and a number in brackets indicates x number of messages : as UNREAD. This of course is a nuisance as I have no idea of how many new : messages I have to read. Even when I do a Catch Up and the News Group name : is no longer bolded, the same problem recurs when I Synchronize All. : : Also why are these x number of messages are not downloaded. It says so in : the bar on the bottom of the OE screen: the current one says "1 message(s), : 0 unread, 3 not downloaded". Yet I don't have any filters to stop any : messages being downloaded. : : I am thinking this problem may be more to do with my ISP or is it an OE6 : problem? : -- : choro-nik : ======== : "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message : ... : Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Mark all messages as read when exiting a : newsgroup. : : IMHO, I would also uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. : -- : Bruce Hagen : MS-MVP Outlook Express : ~IB-CA~ : : "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message : ... : Hello all, : I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one : machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates : and : IE7. : : I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go : to : a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread : messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it : as : read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read : none at all. : : If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that : *all* messages have been marked as read. : : I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so : that : they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get : exactly the same result. : : This has been happening for a few days now. : : I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? : : Thanks, : Patrick Keenan : : : : : : : |
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Tried it all. Still no joy.
This time I experimented only with unsubscribing from a couple of NGs and subsequently resubscribing after a restarting the computer. Next time I will try unsubscribing from the newsserver and see what happens. But if I am not wrong I did try even from removing the newsserver account and recreating the account subsequently and even that didn't help. I believe it is something to do with my newsserver (blueyonder recently being rebranded as virgin media) since the takeover but whereas I was hoping for some improvements after the takeover/merger, nothing seems to be happening at all. Things are running erratically-- same as Virgin Trains as anybody living in the UK will gladly testify. This observation seems to apply to their binary servers whereas the text only server doesn't seem to have this problem. They are running several servers. I wish they were running one server and running it properly. But thank you anyway. -- choro-nik ======== "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You did uncheck the option to mark messages read when leaving a newsgroup? Tools | Accounts | News | Properties | General. Check: Include this account when checking for messages and don't bother with Syncing. Did you Reset the newsgroup after unchecking Get XXX headers? (Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now). Select the Group or Server at the top and then do a Reset followed by a Compact. If that doesn't do it, unsubscribe, reboot and resubscribe. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... That's immaterial. It still behaves that way whether "Get XXX headers at a time.." is checked OR unchecked. -- choro-nik ======== "Ron Sommer" wrote in message ... Do you have "Get XXX headers at a time." unchecked? -- Ronald Sommer "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... :I get the opposite. Win XP/SP2, IE7, OE6 all kept upto date. : : Say when I have read all messages or even when I Select All and Mark All : Messages As Read (and they ARE actually marked as read) the Newsgroup name : still remains bold and a number in brackets indicates x number of messages : as UNREAD. This of course is a nuisance as I have no idea of how many new : messages I have to read. Even when I do a Catch Up and the News Group name : is no longer bolded, the same problem recurs when I Synchronize All. : : Also why are these x number of messages are not downloaded. It says so in : the bar on the bottom of the OE screen: the current one says "1 message(s), : 0 unread, 3 not downloaded". Yet I don't have any filters to stop any : messages being downloaded. : : I am thinking this problem may be more to do with my ISP or is it an OE6 : problem? : -- : choro-nik : ======== : "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message : ... : Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Mark all messages as read when exiting a : newsgroup. : : IMHO, I would also uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. : -- : Bruce Hagen : MS-MVP Outlook Express : ~IB-CA~ : : "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message : ... : Hello all, : I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one : machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates : and : IE7. : : I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go : to : a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread : messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it : as : read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read : none at all. : : If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that : *all* messages have been marked as read. : : I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so : that : they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get : exactly the same result. : : This has been happening for a few days now. : : I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? : : Thanks, : Patrick Keenan : : : : : : : |
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I would have to think at this point it is a Sync problem between your server
and yourself. I can't think of anything else to try. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... Tried it all. Still no joy. This time I experimented only with unsubscribing from a couple of NGs and subsequently resubscribing after a restarting the computer. Next time I will try unsubscribing from the newsserver and see what happens. But if I am not wrong I did try even from removing the newsserver account and recreating the account subsequently and even that didn't help. I believe it is something to do with my newsserver (blueyonder recently being rebranded as virgin media) since the takeover but whereas I was hoping for some improvements after the takeover/merger, nothing seems to be happening at all. Things are running erratically-- same as Virgin Trains as anybody living in the UK will gladly testify. This observation seems to apply to their binary servers whereas the text only server doesn't seem to have this problem. They are running several servers. I wish they were running one server and running it properly. But thank you anyway. -- choro-nik ======== "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... You did uncheck the option to mark messages read when leaving a newsgroup? Tools | Accounts | News | Properties | General. Check: Include this account when checking for messages and don't bother with Syncing. Did you Reset the newsgroup after unchecking Get XXX headers? (Tools | Options | Maintenance | Clean Up Now). Select the Group or Server at the top and then do a Reset followed by a Compact. If that doesn't do it, unsubscribe, reboot and resubscribe. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... That's immaterial. It still behaves that way whether "Get XXX headers at a time.." is checked OR unchecked. -- choro-nik ======== "Ron Sommer" wrote in message ... Do you have "Get XXX headers at a time." unchecked? -- Ronald Sommer "choro-nik" wrote in message .uk... :I get the opposite. Win XP/SP2, IE7, OE6 all kept upto date. : : Say when I have read all messages or even when I Select All and Mark All : Messages As Read (and they ARE actually marked as read) the Newsgroup name : still remains bold and a number in brackets indicates x number of messages : as UNREAD. This of course is a nuisance as I have no idea of how many new : messages I have to read. Even when I do a Catch Up and the News Group name : is no longer bolded, the same problem recurs when I Synchronize All. : : Also why are these x number of messages are not downloaded. It says so in : the bar on the bottom of the OE screen: the current one says "1 message(s), : 0 unread, 3 not downloaded". Yet I don't have any filters to stop any : messages being downloaded. : : I am thinking this problem may be more to do with my ISP or is it an OE6 : problem? : -- : choro-nik : ======== : "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message : ... : Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Mark all messages as read when exiting a : newsgroup. : : IMHO, I would also uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time. : -- : Bruce Hagen : MS-MVP Outlook Express : ~IB-CA~ : : "Patrick Keenan" wrote in message : ... : Hello all, : I've just started having an odd problem with OE news postings on one : machine (this one, my laptop running XP Pro). It's got all the updates : and : IE7. : : I have subscribed to several newsgroups, and let's say that I open OE, go : to : a newsgroup, and it downloads 300 messages - so there are 300 unread : messages. I read one, so there would be 299 unread. I might mark it : as : read, or the timer might look after that. Or, from a new check, I read : none at all. : : If I then go to another group, and come back, I will find that : *all* messages have been marked as read. : : I've just tried moving all the group .dbx files to another folder, so : that : they would be re-created and messages would be re-downloaded, but I get : exactly the same result. : : This has been happening for a few days now. : : I wonder if anyone would know what might be causing this? : : Thanks, : Patrick Keenan : : : : : : : |
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