Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: How do I keep read messages between runs?

[Jeff Vian]

Mick Wever wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:37:00 -0700, Charles Kerr wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:31:50PM +0200, Mick Wever wrote:
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> > > What a hassle.
> > >      
> > Whine, whine, whine. ;)
> >    
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> :D yeah yeah, bug reporting's a tough life. Sad to say, still happening in
> 0.14.0.91 windows version. When I start up, i will only get unread
> messages, if I 'download all articles' (under more download options), it
> gets fixed. But then if I change selected group and come back again, I get
> the font/overlapping-duplicate articles as complained by others. If I
> change selected group again and come back again, once again all my
> articles have dissappeared.
>
> Mick.
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> ps. [Likely a silly Q] I have got a virus scanner deleting some of the
> downloaded files (when download bodies too is checked) running in the
> background, I presume PAN can handle this cross-usuage?
>
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Why would you expect pan to handle that????

Pan keeps track of the cached data and headers using a .dat file.  If 
PAN makes a change in the status the .dat gets updated, if something 
else makes the change PAN would not be aware of the change until you 
force it to attempt to use the data that has been deleted/changed.

If you have something else actively deleting the actual files then PAN 
would have to actively monitor file status constantly and that would 
really load it down and send performance into the toilet.

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