Re: [Pan-users] Saving incomplete binary articles?

[Duncan]

walt posted on Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:43:21 -0800 as excerpted:

> I'm not sure, but I think pan has changed its attitude recently about
> saving binary articles to disk.. (BTW, I'm always running the latest pan
> from git.)
> 
> Today, for example, I was downloading a binary post with about 15 parts,
> and after half an hour I noticed that two of those parts were still not
> finished downloading, and were just sitting in the tasks list with no
> network traffic happening.  I'm guessing those two parts were incomplete
> on my server and pan was prepared to wait indefinitely(?) for them to
> become complete.
> 
> In the past pan has saved "corrupted" binary parts along with a separate
> text file named with the ".ERRORS" filename extension. (I'm not sure
> about the difference between incomplete articles and corrupted
> articles.)
> 
> Anyway, my question really is whether pan's behavior has changed lately
> or I'm just seeing more incomplete articles lately?

As of about a week ago at least, I was getting the errors files.  I only 
recently got back into binaries, and that was an older set that wasn't 
complete, and I DID get the corrupted binaries AND errors files. (IDR the 
exact extension, but it was plain enough).

However, I can note that I run binaries rather differently than many.  I 
use a "cache-first" policy, with a multi-gig cache, and downloading to 
cache everything I might want.  Then I do something else while it 
downloads and come back when it's all in cache, to go thru and actually 
save stuff off to disk.

So if it makes a difference whether the file is cached first and then 
just saved off, or saved straight to file, and you were saving straight 
to file, THEN the behavior might be different.  But I don't know if that 
makes a difference or not -- I'd think not.  And for sure I was seeing 
the "short" binaries along with the errors files, saving to file from pre-
cached.

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