Hi Spike,
I really appreciate the helpful tips from you and Mike. I don't mean
to confuse anyone with too much verbosity about how I do what I do, as
there are countless ways to do the same things. You asked if I marked
headers "read" or deleted them. I delete them, and yes, I would get
them again if I selected GetAll headers, but I only do that the first
time, and use the sample headers afterwards, and specify the start
date to avoid getting what I already processed.
I learned something else about Agent, that I'm not sure what to make
of, see attached image. The final paragraph in the text says, "If the
total is more than 8 million headers, Agent will discard the oldest of
the newly retrieved headers." So if I understand that, it was well
that I stopped the retrival process, since if I had waited many days
for it to complete, it would have still given me 8 million headers,
but deceived me into thinking I had gotten everything, since I didn't
know about this feature until now. I now wonder if it dropped things
older than Sept 2009. I will check this when I'm ready for more
headers, just to see how far back it goes.
I know you are right, that once I get my kill filters figured out,
this group will be managable. I don't care for the bulk of content on
regular TV these days, but there is lots of stuff here that isn't
found in the documentary group, so I plan to keep following teevee,
now that you got me started there. Much thanks again!
Yeah, I knew searching for BBC wouldn't get me much, but I'm just
getting started. THANKS for the "c4tv" tip!
THanks for mentioning the purge business. Currently, out of fear of
the unknown, I set mine to never purge anything ever. But I've
noticed that 40 GB dat file for teevee is still the same size after
all I've deleted, so I need to make some changes there.
That last thing you said confuses me:
>To add to your list of Agent flaws there is also the one that
>'ignores' random files that you have Not set to be ignored !
>I often download an episode of something and find a rar or two
>missing, then have to select view All messages to find the ignored
>missing parts.
I have View->All Messages checked and have never set it to anything
else. I've never "ignored" anything, and am puzzled that it would
randomly ignore a rar file. Certainly sounds more like a flaw than a
feature. It sounds similar to the problem I mentioned when the
"threaded sort" button was turned on by the date sort method, and it
hid things from me. It hasn't happened in years, so I forget the
details, but I always unclick that button when I notice it is turned
on. It may be unrelated to your problem, except that in both cases,
files were not seen that should have been visible, and might be a flaw
in the threading code. When you find the part, is it marked to be
ignored, or do you just find it, and can't explain why it wasn't there
before? That was my experience. When I unclicked the thread button,
my file would appear, but it wouldn't make sense to me why it should
have been attached below some seemingly unrelated message. It was one
of the bugs I reported and was told it wouldn't be fixed. I think it
is because it isn't repeatable, but happens randomly, as you said.
Agent is managing HUGE data sets, so we're just lucky it works as
great as it does.
cheers!
:)
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