| Re: Attn: Isis re: "Deuxieme souffle, Le" and "Doulos, Le" ... |
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| Chauncy (xyz@there.com) |
2008/10/22 07:01 |
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:03:00 -0500, Isis <isis55423@hotpop.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:39:08 -0600, "howl" <howl@themoon.ca> wrote:
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>:I am using newshosting at this time and have had no problems with them re: parts etc. thus far until (perhaps) now ....
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>:After grabbing these two films (I use grabit) I found that most parts had missing blocks albeit very few ... however I am short 1 block in one post and 7 in the other ...
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>:please advise ...
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>:thanks ...
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>:howl.
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>Hi Howl,
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>You gave me very little to work with, since there are so many variables.
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>Both posts are 100% complete on the binary search engines, as they are
>on Giganews.
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>I suppose my first question would be, "Why would you d/l a post that was
>missing more articles than the accompanying PAR2 files would repair?"
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>I am assuming that when you say you are missing 1 & 7 blocks
>respectively, that you actually mean that 31 more articles are missing
>in each post that QuickPar could have repaired?
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>That would mean you were missing a total of 70 articles in those two
>posts.
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>It has been my experience that among the DVD groups I monitor, some with
>more than 40,000 main headers going back to last February, I wouldn't be
>able to find 70 missing articles in the entire group.
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>You say that you use GrabIt. I know very little about that program, but
>I do know that the recent version uses Auto-Par & Auto-Rar. If you are
>using those features, you will need the latest beta 3 version just
>recently released.
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>How is it that only partially complete parts are being downloaded? A
>good binary downloader will require human intervention to finish d/l-ing
>those parts.
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>Perhaps you began the d/l before Usenet propagation had completed.
>Things have been slow lately, since we are near one of the equinoxes.
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>My only advice would be to re-download those posts to see if added time
>had improved the situation. Other than that, perhaps Newshosting is not
>as great a deal as it is purported to be.
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>It's a mystery to me, too!
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>Good luck,
>
>Isis
Came down fine for me using the NZB's from Binsearch.
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