Grabit problem.

[Taf]

My preferred newsgroup program, Grabit, has suddenly gone bonkers. Reinstallation hasn't helped.

Some groups update and show their contents in the "Articles" tab area, but several others show "Loading Group" at about 20% and then lock solid in the "Articles" tab area.

Removing those stuck groups, then reselecting them doesn't help either.

The program itself hasn't updated for ages, and I haven't changed any of its settings.

Any ideas?

This is what it looks like when locked up in a group:

[swoop101]

use http://www.altbinz.net/ instead

[Gary L]

Probably loading too many headers. Grabit doesn't like too many headers.
I have mine set at 200,000

[Taf]

I've always had it set to the minimum 100,000.

VM's traffic control has slowed it to under 60kbps at the moment....

[swoop101]

change your port to get around the control's

[Taf]

Originally Posted by swoop101

change your port to get around the control's

[swoop101]

I changed the port I use to 443 get around the auto traffic management
go to grabit server properties and change it.

[donut]

Same happened for me, unless retention rates have increased, seems a bit weird

[Taf]

Originally Posted by swoop101

use http://www.altbinz.net/ instead

Hmmm... got it set up but am I right in thinking it won't download headers unless you give it an NZB unlike Grabit?

---------- Post added at 11:31 ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 ----------

As with all software, GrabIt has some known problems which haven't been fixed yet.

The 'large group bug'

GrabIt is not able to handle the headers of really large groups at this moment. The maximum amount of headers GrabIt can handle depends on your computer. When GrabIt hits its limit on your system, it will download all the headers, but will not show them. Or it will be stuck processing them for a really long time (hours).
NOTE 1: Since release 1.5.2 there is an option to limit the maximum amount of headers per group.
NOTE 2: Since release 1.6.0 GrabIt features new technology (Usenet Browser) to view the contents of a newsgroup without downloading headers.

I'm using 1.7.2. Beta 6

[swoop101]

there are tabs for searching groups, above the main window

[donut]

Only thing I'm wondering is what's changed? Was working fine until a few days ago and it doesn't look like the amount of data being downloaded for a group update seems any larger than it was....it must be on the VM side? Has anyone tried it with another provider?

[Taf]

I was thinking along the same lines, but don't like to point the finger at VM without exhausting other possibilities first.

I shall try Grabit on another PC and see what I get.

[dave6x]

Originally Posted by donut

Only thing I'm wondering is what's changed? Was working fine until a few days ago and it doesn't look like the amount of data being downloaded for a group update seems any larger than it was....it must be on the VM side? Has anyone tried it with another provider?

I've been having exactly the same problems with Grabit since Friday, was working perfectly until then.

I'm running Grabit 1.7.2 Beta3 on a desktop with Win VISTA Business and Grabit 1.7.2 Beta6 on my laptop with Win 7 HP, both machines are exhibiting same problems with some groups not opening after full or incremental update.

[Taf]

I have now checked on 3 other PCs which have never had Grabit installed before and the result is the same, so I am now suspecting a VM problem or change causing it.

I have posted this problem to the VM Support Groups:

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...s/td-p/1123629

[lyteroptes]

Could it not be at the news server end?

I'm with Demon and getting the same problem with their EU server but I can update problem groups from the US server and Grabit loads the headers.