Re: [Pan-users] Downloading incomplete attachments?

[Alen Williams]

> Slow down a moment, I'm missing something here....
> A "good" attachment is shown as a "green jigsaw puzzle piece" and it
> takes one line in the article list window.
> A "bad" attachment is just a normal thread you can expand.
> 
> I've tried to save with "save attachment" a "bad" attachment, and I seem
> to be getting a truncated file (it's way smaller), so it may be that
> pan is already doing what I want.

K, sorry, I'll make that clearer.

This is how I normally operate Pan. On one news server I download (for
example) an episode of DS9, about 70% of which will be green complete
files, and 30% will be red incomplete files.

Wait for that to finish, then go to another news server (giganews) that
has better completion. Select the exact same files to be downloaded (all
green this time of course). 

Pan will now download any segments that are missing from it's cache and
save all the files again as copy_2...

Then you run "par r -fm" and it renames all the files, and away we go.
Of course re-downloading the good files is completely redundant, but I'm
lazy!!! :o) (All those files are complete in the cache, so it just re
decodes them, it doesn't actually download anything)

Interestingly if segment #1 is missing then file won't be saved. The
task reaches 100% and stays in the task list as stopped.

Par2 is going to screw with all of this, you have to rename the copy_2
files yourself. Perhaps a feature request could be what action to take
on duplicate file, overwrite or name as something else...

HTH

Regards,

Alen.