On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:14:04 +0100, "|--Spike=-"
<|--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK> wrote:
>>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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>View All Messages/View Unread Messages/Randomly Ignored Rar Parts.
>As You choose to Delete messages when you have read them, then there
>would be No difference to you between these two views.
>Whereas, I mark them read instead of deleting and let the Purging take
>care of them (after a month).
>Therefore, my normal view would be Viewing Unread Messages'. A month
>worth or 'Read' headers would still be there (in the background) in
>case I might have missed something.
>
>My default killfilter is set with the 'ignore' option ticked, another
>option is 'Mark as Read' but I have also found this to be flawed...
>some series I have killfiltered kept coming back unless the ignore
>option was selected.
>
>Missing (Ignored) files...
>I have often downloaded an episode of a series and found there to be
>missing blocks (on the Par check), after checking the par data it
>usually turns out that Agent has chosen to ignore a complete rar file
>section from the collection... thats why I'm short on blocks.
>It does this for No reason and is certainly another flaw.
>I can double-click on the ignored part and it will download, but I
>have no idea Why it was ignored in the first place.
>
>I have even found parts of my own posts being ignored before ! Why the
>Hell would I Ignore myself !
>
>The 'threaded' flaw and the 'randomly ignore' flaw are two separate
>flaws.
>My Agent has both but they have nothing to do with each other.
>
>Agent IS managing huge sets of data, but its a computer programme, if
>the software is programmed properly by the Agent people then it Can't
>make mistakes and to say that is 'wont be fixed' is just a complete
>cop-out.
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>* who understand Binary... and those who dont' *
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Speak of the Devil, my next download after posting the above...
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