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On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:30:39 -0700, harryh89@yahoo.com wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:48:27 -0600, Old Geek
><eldergeekenator@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:18:33 -0500, eb <nobody@none.com> wrote:
>>
>>>If I may be permitted to jump into this discussion I have a couple of
>>>suggestions/thoughts:
>>>
>>>If you've upgraded from Agent 7.x to 8.x I would suggest that you
>>>UNinstall Agent 8.x, wipe out the data folders completely & install a
>>>fresh version of Agent 7.2 (which I think was the last version of
>>>7.x).
>>>
>>>I've been using Agent since version 4.x (per a suggestion from EG a
>>>few years ago) and had faithfully upgraded to each successive new
>>>version, including 8. "Megajoin" s/b renamed 'Megatrouble", IMHO.
>>>I've found it to be VERY twitchy, unreliable and inconsistant at
>>>joining RAR and other split archive files, even with it disabled.
>>>After using 8.x for several months I did as I outlined above and went
>>>back to Version 7.2 and have been using it since. Maybe when Forte
>>>releases Version 9 I'll try that but in the meantime I'll stick with
>>>what i have.
>>>
>>>My 2 cents.
>>>
>>>EB
>>
>>Honestly EB I believe you can simply turn off the megajoin feature
>>globally (in folders | default properties) and accomplish the same
>>thing. Then you can keep the history you have in your databases since
>>ver 8.x uses a different structure than 7.x does.
>>
>>Your method works but may be more effort (perhaps simply needless loss
>>of history) then is needed.
>>
>>I was actually in on the later stages of testing ver 8 and I believe
>>ver 8 is essentially the same as 7 with the exception of megajoin.
>>Forte was trying to improve Agent for binary downloaders and megajoin
>>was their answer.
>>Hard telling at this point if they plan on a new version any time soon
>>or not.
>>
>>EG.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:00:47 -0600, BigC <BigC@rochester.rr.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:54:43 -0600, Old Geek
>>>><eldergeekenator@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Very odd BigC. I do check my posts a short time after I send them to
>>>>>ensure they are complete or at least complete enough to fix with the
>>>>>par files provided. Every one of the previews does have a video with
>>>>>it.
>>>>>I am wondering if your problem may be related to Agent 8's megajoin
>>>>>feature. I have found there can be some weird behavior associated with
>>>>>it. In fact with the AP and AN posts the videos show up as ABMEA...A
>>>>>TTP Post [*/??] "???" yEnc
>>>>>You can undo this behavior by clicking folder | properties | Usnet
>>>>>Archives and checking Override default settings. Then uncheck Megajoin
>>>>>Archives when retrieving headers.
>>>>>That will make Agent 8 behave like Agent 7 and before when displaying
>>>>>headers. (if you do that in Folders | Default Properties it will
>>>>>disable megajoin in all folders)
>>>>>Give that a try and see what happens.
>>>>>In the mean time I will post the nzb files for the 2 AN posts for you
>>>>>tonight with my regular posting.
>>>>>If you would like the nzb for other posts just let me know, most are
>>>>>archived.
>>>>>
>>>>>Keep me posted.
>>>>>
>>>>>EG.
>>>>
>>>>Well, I disabled Megajoin and reloaded the headers and all the missing
>>>>videos were there. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me because all
>>>>your previews and some of the vids make it with Megajoin enabled and
>>>>no one else is affected. I never had a problem with Megajoin ignoring
>>>>posts before the 4th of this month and I haven't made any changes in
>>>>Agent.
>>>>
>>>>I've never really liked Megajoin because it can and does do some weird
>>>>stuff on occasion like putting each rar file in a seperate sub-folder
>>>>under a main folder. Well, Megajoin is off for good. It's not worth
>>>>the hassle.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks EG, for your help and posts.
>>>>
>>>>Ps. Your NZB files brought everything in OK with Megajoin still
>>>>turned on.
>
>I guess I found so many issues with megajoin, I turned it off and
>things have worked OK. Forte has tried to improve things, but with
>the general decline of Usenet, aside from those downloading TV using
>NZBs, improvements to Agent seem unlikely - hopefully I'm wrong.
>
>I just discovered that by adding a USB drive to my ASUS router, it has
>an NZB application that automagically downloads NZBs onto that drive.
>It also will do torrents. Rather amazing use of the bitty computer in
>the router. So the TV guys get NZBs downloaded into a DNLA server!
Interesting, are those applications in the router firmware itself?
I have an RT-AC68W but have never hooked up a USB drive and don't see
anythig about NZBs ot torrents. I'd like to though.
EG.
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