| Re: req repost of EL 12 Days- See inside |
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| Herb (Herb@the.herb.garden) |
2010/12/30 23:18 |
JustUs2 wrote:
> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
> news:avKSo.212408$ZM.21042@en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com...
>
>> JustUs2 wrote:
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>>> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
>>> news:TtfSo.608509$Is6.178446@en-nntp-13.dc1.easynews.com...
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>>>> JustUs2 wrote:
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>>>>> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
>>>>> news:5g7So.63958$Ud7.2819@en-nntp-16.dc1.easynews.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>> JustUs2 wrote:
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Herb" <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:FV3So.516146$pX3.271182@en-nntp-11.dc1.easynews.com...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> JustUs2 wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Would someone please repost the el 12 Days of Christmas that
>>>>>>>>> Maggy posted on the 20th. I cannot get it to download and
>>>>>>>>> recombine. Thank you
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Just Me
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are you sure that you put them in the right sequence before you
>>>>>>>> combine them? The smaller parts (usually the last) are often
>>>>>>>> delivered first. MS mail products don't know enough to re-sort
>>>>>>>> them, as most news readers will do automatically, as well as
>>>>>>>> combine them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How large are the pieces that you can see? It's possible that
>>>>>>>> your news SERVER is rejecting all of part of the larger (approx
>>>>>>>> 10,000 line) parts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Or, you may have a setting in your LiveMail product that puts a
>>>>>>>> smaller maximum on what it will accept.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Herb
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There was only 2 parts to it. Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's right. Part 1 was about 10000 lines and part 2 was a little
>>>>>> over 4000 lines. I'm not sure what part of my post you interpreted
>>>>>> as saying that there were more than 2 parts. OH I see. When I said
>>>>>> "the smaller parts" I was talking in general. In this case there
>>>>>> was only one 'smaller part'. But you didn't respond to the rest of
>>>>>> the post.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Herb
>>>>>>
>>>>> I've been able to download plenty of huge files, but it is
>>>>> something about Maggy's settings that my computer just doesn't like.
>>>>> I was able to download the repost just posted. Thanks for your
>>>>> concern.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And it's exactly what it is about Maggy's OR YOUR settings that
>>>> makes your computer not like her posts that I'm trying to find out.
>>>> Your asking for a repost everytime she posts something that
>>>> everybody else can get raises some flags.
>>>>
>>>> Solving such problems can make it easier to avoid them or solve them
>>>> quickly for others who may encounter similar problems. Requiring
>>>> that other people go through the effort of reposting just for you
>>>> might be an unnecessary imposition.
>>>>
>>>> - Herb
>>>>
>>>>
>>> When Maggy posts a single Part file I don't have any problem with it.
>>> It is just multipart files that won't combine and I end up with a
>>> damaged file or some other error when I try to unzip.
>>> I haven't asked for a repost of all the Maggy files, mostust let go.
>>> But occasionally there is something I'd like to get.
>>> When I combined this last posting, it has parts of 617kb and 301 kb
>>> but when it combines to a rar file it is 224 kb. I get the
>>> message: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged. I
>>> recombine time and again and still get the same error message. I
>>> don't want to be an imposition to anyone, I just occasionally ask for
>>> help.
>>> Does any of this make sense as to why I have that problem? Thanks
>>> for your help.
>>
>>
>> I took some time, and have managed to reproduce your problem! And, as
>> I had previously suggested, it results from combining the parts in an
>> incorrect sequence.
>>
>> Taking the EL 12 days of Xmas as an example, it was in two parts, with
>> subject lines ending in
>>
>> ... "embroidery library 12 days of christmas.rar"(2/2)
>> and
>> ... "embroidery library 12 days of christmas.rar"(1/2)
>>
>> respectively.
>>
>> Note that 2/2 PRECEDED 1/2. If you go ahead and combine them in that
>> order, all you get is a corrupted .rar file of just over 200kBytes, as
>> you discovered.
>>
>> Outlook Express, and, I presume, Windows Live Mail, have the option to
>> sort or resequence multi-part posts. If you move them around so that
>> 1/2 preceded 2/2, then you get the correct output file.
>>
>> If the file were a book, it's like tearing it in half and then putting
>> the second half first. When it's read, you get to "THE END"
>> prematurely; that's exactly what combining out of sequence does and
>> why it results in a short (and unreadable) subset.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> - Herb
>
> It makes total sense but when I go to combine the two files they are in
> the proper sequence with 1/2 preceding 2/2.
> I do look at that option when I have to recombine multiple files, and
> occasionally some new reordering. I just don't know what else to do.
> Maggy's postings are the only ones I have trouble with.
> I appreciate your time trying to get this fixed. Thank you for your
> help. I guess I just need a magic wand. Happy New Year.
> You know I remember reading something several months back about
> someone commenting on the way Maggy posts and "he" didn't understand why
> more people weren't having trouble with those postings. It is beyond
> me where to go from here.
OK, I'll give up too. Must be something wierd about the interaction
between Usenet Explorer (used by Maggy) and the Live Mail that you're
using.
- Herb
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