[Pan-users] Re: Offline Reading in Pan

[Duncan]

"Will Shattuck" <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden,
excerpted below, on  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:27:07 -0700:

> I've searched the mailing list archives, and probably have missed what I'm
> looking for, but I cannot seem to find a setting that allows me to cache
> all the (new)articles when polling newsgoups.  I found that I could select
> all the articles in the article pane, then select "Cache Articles".  It
> will cache top level articles in threads, but not the sub articles.  I'm
> sure I'm missing something, but I can't seem to find the setting.
> 
> I'm using Pan 0.117 on Windows XP Pro.

You have two posts presenting effectively one solution.  I use what
amounts to the same thing but approach it differently.

I prefer my threads expanded by default.  There's an option for that in
the prefs dialog.  Thus, when I select-all, that's what it /does/,
select-all, not just the top-level, because all (well, subject to
whatever score and etc display filtering I've set) are shown to be
selected.  After that, it's the same download to cache everybody else uses.

Something you may run into, however, that hasn't yet been mentioned.  The
cache is by default fairly small, 10MB I think.  That larger than you'll
likely download for text-only in a session, but if you do binaries, 10MB
is nothing.  My binary sessions regularly download 2 gig or more at once,
so 10 meg simply doesn't cut it.

There's no GUI method for configuring cache size, but the setting is
exposed in the preferences.xml file for tweaking.  I can confirm that
sizes at least up to 12 gig-ish work fine here (freedomware Linux, no
slaveryware for me).

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