Re: problem resetting newsgroup list

Michael,

Did as you wrote. OE now opens faster which is nice but the reset list
hang-up is still there. I got up to 54351 groups (and most of them are bogus
which ticks me off...) and the file to file animation above the group count
freezes. Trying to do anything in OE gives Not Responding in top bar.

Any other ideas? I have seen this on other machines with Win98 and OE6 as
well as my main machine which is XP Pro, HP/Compaq D220mt.

Also another item. [tools - Options - maintenance - Clean up now] only seems
to clean up the newsgroups that I am subscribed to. Any groups browsed
without subscribing leave dbx files behind. Is there any way to
automatically clean these or must I manually delete any large dbx files?

Thanks again,
Oppie

"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ePuoEVr0GHA.328@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Try doing a File, Folders, Compact ALL before doing the Reset List.

The newsgroup list is stored in the Folders.DBX file. That file may have
become bloated

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Oppie" <boppie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ujpk3pq0GHA.2356@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I subscribe to several usenet providers and on some, have trouble
refreshing the list of available groups.

When connected to news.microsoft.com for instance, resetting the list
[tools - newsgroups - reset list] goes through within seconds.

When connected through news.teranews.com it can take several hours to
complete. there are something like 75000 groups on this server. OE will
start downloading the list of groups and when it gets to about 55,000 the
download stalls and the disc access light keeps flashing. Task manager
shows that msimn.exe is taking about 97% of the cpu time. Sometimes it
will complete normally and others it will keep hanging even after letting
it run overnight.

Any ideas what this is and how to keep it from hanging? The teranews
server has dropped some of its groups so I wanted to refresh the list.

TIA - Oppie





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