Re: [Pan-users] Re: Downloading New Headers

[Roger Penn]

Hmm. I have a ~/.pan directory, but it contains no data directory.
Perhaps this is a problem? I think I'm going to delete the whole ~/.pan
directory and start from scratch.

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 20:29, Duncan wrote:
> Roger Penn posted <address@hidden>, excerpted below,  on
> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:12:49 -0800:
> 
> > I just upgraded to version 0.14.2 from 0.11.something. Now Pan will no
> > longer download new headers. The only way to get the latest posts is to
> > download the entire newsgroup over again. I didn't have this problem
> > using the old Pan on the same news server with the same configuration,
> > nor do I have a problem using Free Agent (I don't, I just tried it for
> > diagnostic purposes). Anyone know how I can make the new version
> > download just the new headers?
> 
> I'm guessing the "viewed message" tracking database is borked.  The
> message numbers on the server are out of sync with what PAN has in its
> records, and it thinks it has seen everything on the server already, so
> doesn't download it again unless you tell it to d/l everything.
> 
> To correct, try erasing the files PAN uses to track that, under
> ~/.pan/data.  Note that you can erase the entire dir if you don't mind
> losing your settings and having to set up PAN again, or you can find and
> erase the specific ones for the groups in question, and possibly the
> server in question, sparing your other PAN settings.

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