Re: [Pan-users] Re: Offline Reading in Pan

[Will Shattuck]

On 10/26/06, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Will Shattuck" <address@hidden>
> posted address@hidden,
> excerpted below, on  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:07 -0700:
>
> > I've searched the mailing list archives, and probably have missed what I'm
> > looking for, but I cannot seem to find a setting that allows me to cache
> > all the (new)articles when polling newsgoups.  I found that I could select
> > all the articles in the article pane, then select "Cache Articles".  It
> > will cache top level articles in threads, but not the sub articles.  I'm
> > sure I'm missing something, but I can't seem to find the setting.
> >
> > I'm using Pan 0.117 on Windows XP Pro.
>
> You have two posts presenting effectively one solution.  I use what
> amounts to the same thing but approach it differently.
>
> I prefer my threads expanded by default.  There's an option for that in
> the prefs dialog.  Thus, when I select-all, that's what it /does/,
> select-all, not just the top-level, because all (well, subject to
> whatever score and etc display filtering I've set) are shown to be
> selected.  After that, it's the same download to cache everybody else uses.

Thanks all.  I'll have to post a feature request for adding an
"Offline" function that automagically downloads the bodies and one for
a GUI location to set the offline cache setting.

> Something you may run into, however, that hasn't yet been mentioned.  The
> cache is by default fairly small, 10MB I think.  That larger than you'll
> likely download for text-only in a session, but if you do binaries, 10MB
> is nothing.  My binary sessions regularly download 2 gig or more at once,
> so 10 meg simply doesn't cut it.
>
> There's no GUI method for configuring cache size, but the setting is
> exposed in the preferences.xml file for tweaking.  I can confirm that
> sizes at least up to 12 gig-ish work fine here (freedomware Linux, no
> slaveryware for me).

Yes, I found that setting in the XML files.  Since I don't do binaries
at the moment I figured I would leave it and see if I have any
problems.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Will

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