[Pan-users] Re: Binaries subject lines incorrectly formatted?

[Duncan]

"walt" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:46:17
+0000:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:09:48 -0700, Jeff Berman wrote:
>> 
>> I just noticed that Binary subject lines are sometimes
>> formatted funny, like "Test_File.rar (/53)"...
> 
> I've often seen similar things, usually when one part of a
> multi-part post is displayed twice, with two different sets
> of numbers:
> 
> foo.part12.rar (8/27)
> foo.part12.rar (/27)
> 
> As far as I can tell, the /27 notation means that the post
> is complete.  On the other hand, when I click on both of
> the above articles I get *two* complete downloads of the
> file foo.part12 stored on disk.

The /nnn format means what you guessed, but it's a relatively new change. 
Among other things it saves a few bytes in the database, but mainly, it
was done as part of a bugfix for a problem where the same posts were
showing up multiple times, once tracked with one number (say 8/27) once
with another (say 5/27).  The fix collapsed the individual part number out
so pan would always see it as the same post.

Charles warned that the fix worked for new posts but didn't fix existing
entries in the database, and that those who needed that would have to
delete the database (IIRC the groups subdir, but you could try individual
files inside if you are only seeing the issue with a couple groups of
many) and re-d/l headers.  Since you weren't following the group/list well
enough to know what it was, it's fairly safe to presume you didn't delete
the db and where you see duplicate entries, one 8/27 and one simply /27,
it's because the entry with the 8 is from before the fix.

FWIW, here, I work with a multi-gig cache (pan defaults to 10MB, it's set
by hand in preferences.xml), download to cache a bunch of stuff, sort thru
it, erasing headers as I'm done with them, then erasing cache when I'm
done with everything.  I was in the middle of one such cycle when the
upgrade came, a bit frustrated with duplicates but working thru them, and
decided it wasn't worth worrying about since I'd soon be done with them
anyway.  After I finished that cycle and deleted both headers and cache, I
haven't seen the problem again, even working with the existing db.

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