Xnews- seeing OP

[ms]

I had this same problem when using Xnews years ago, never got a good answer.
I did not have good luck on the newsreaders ng.

I posted to ACF on an Xnews question yesterday. Today, I can see the replies
but my OP is gone.

Could someone please advise on this.

TIA

Mike Sa

 

[Doc]

I had this same problem when using Xnews years ago, never got a good
answer. I did not have good luck on the newsreaders ng.

I posted to ACF on an Xnews question yesterday. Today, I can see the
replies but my OP is gone.

Could someone please advise on this.

TIA

Mike Sa

Special/Setup Xnews/Storage tab ..... how many days do you have set for
purge ? 0 (zero) will retain until your news server drops the posts.

 

[elaich]

I had this same problem when using Xnews years ago, never got a good
answer. I did not have good luck on the newsreaders ng.

I posted to ACF on an Xnews question yesterday. Today, I can see the
replies but my OP is gone.

Could someone please advise on this.

TIA

Mike Sa

Did you read your own post, or use F8 to catch up the group? That will
cause you not to see your own post. It's still there, only Xnews has
marked it as "read."

Click on the thread and go to Article>Refresh Thread to get the whole
thread back again.

 

[Franklin]

I had this same problem when using Xnews years ago, never got a
good answer. I did not have good luck on the newsreaders ng.

I posted to ACF on an Xnews question yesterday. Today, I can see
the replies but my OP is gone.

Could someone please advise on this.

TIA

If you are filtering out messages aready seen or already downloaded then
try Filter > Remove All Filters.

Try Article > reconstruct Thread (CTRL-U). This usually works although
you will need one posting from the thread to issue that command on.

 

[ms]

Special/Setup Xnews/Storage tab ..... how many days do you have set for
purge ? 0 (zero) will retain until your news server drops the posts.

In that Storage screen I see 4 choices:
use default- no automatic setting
save nothing- turn off storage
save headers
save headers and articles

Not what you are describing????

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

Did you read your own post, or use F8 to catch up the group? That will
cause you not to see your own post. It's still there, only Xnews has
marked it as "read."

Click on the thread and go to Article>Refresh Thread to get the whole
thread back again.

Thanks, yes, that works, but still need to look at Doc's suggestion. I hope
to get the display to look normal by itself.

Mike Sa

 

[elaich]

Thanks, yes, that works, but still need to look at Doc's suggestion. I
hope to get the display to look normal by itself.

I think you can mark the thread as "keep" and it will stay, but I've never
used that feature of Xnews.

 

[elaich]

I think you can mark the thread as "keep" and it will stay, but I've
never used that feature of Xnews.

Yep. I just tried it. I refreshed this thread, marked it as "keep" and all
the posts survived an

 

[elaich]

I think you can mark the thread as "keep" and it will stay, but I've
never used that feature of Xnews.

Yep. Just tried it. I refreshed the thread and marked it as "keep." It
survived an F8.

 

[ms]

Yep. Just tried it. I refreshed the thread and marked it as "keep." It
survived an F8.

Sounds good, but where do you find "keep"? - I looked.

Mike Sa

 

[mike]

Sounds good, but where do you find "keep"? - I looked.

Hello, Mike

This is what works for me;

Storage;

Left click on the icon next to the "T" at the bottom.

Choose "store headers and articles"

This keeps everything. Xnews can be configured to store nothing, as a
strictly "on-line" reader, which makes almost no demands on your
HDD storage. The option I use makes demands on your hard disc, so you set
an expiration date as Doc suggested, or occasionally purge the storage
yourself, but in these days of gigabyte drives it's not so essential.

When you leave a group, if you've skipped posts (don't we all?) press

shiftF8 - this will mark all posts as read.

Then press F8 to catchup (TBH I don't quite know what that means, but it
works for me.

Then in Special>Setup>Misc check

"0pen next group after catchup",

and after you leave a group via shftF8 and F8, the next group will open for
yo immediately.

I find this a very fast and easy way to work.

HTH

mike

 

[Doc]

In that Storage screen I see 4 choices:
use default- no automatic setting
save nothing- turn off storage
save headers
save headers and articles

Not what you are describing????

Mike Sa

If you have "Save headers" or "Save headers and articles" selected then you
have a further option of how long to save headers/articles before they are
purged.

 

[elaich]

Sounds good, but where do you find "keep"? - I looked.

Group>Mark Selected As>Keep

 

[bambam]

Sounds good, but where do you find "keep"? - I looked.

While viewing the post that you want kept, press ctrl+[
Or alternatly if you are a mouser right click the small page icon to keep
that post. If you want to mark a whole thread as kept, right click the
small folder icon beside the thread suject name.
For additional keyboard shortcuts press alt+k
Stick with it.

 

[ms]

Sounds good, but where do you find "keep"? - I looked.

Mike Sa

Thanks to all, have to learn Xnews all over again.

Mike Sa

 

[Franklin]

[...]

Yep. Just tried it. I refreshed the thread and marked it as "keep."
It survived an F8.

Be careful about Purge (F7) because "Keep" will not survive that.

 

[Franklin]

Sounds good, but where do you find "keep"? - I looked.

Can simply right-click the icon of a post.

The blue outer on the icon indicates the post is being kept.

 

[ms]

Can simply right-click the icon of a post.

The blue outer on the icon indicates the post is being kept.

Thanks to all, have to edit the recent advice to get some decent viewing.

Mike Sa