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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Mon Nov 11, 2024 2:11 pm

Could you tell me what to check as to why, I am using this build, Newsbin can at times exit before it is closed down..?
I have set it to pause on extraction before moving on to the next download. I have even selected the option to ask to confirm when being shutdown.
Still, on occasion, after a successful extraction it will automatically shutdown. Even if there are other downloads queued.
When it does this, the previously successfully extracted file is then shown as being only partially downloaded and so it will complete again and then extract again.

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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Wed Nov 13, 2024 12:28 pm

I'm not sure. I've re-worked this significantly for RC4 because of reports that it wouldn't shut down.

I'll see if I can reproduce it.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby revco » Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:07 pm

I figured I should report this as I haven't seen any mention of it. (I might have missed it in the previous RC/beta discussions, though.) I've tried RC3 a few times now but have had to roll back to 6.90 due to a debilitating bug.

Sometimes, typically when a lot of files get queued up, it'll just stop processing the files. Downloads continue, but PAR fixes and extractions cease. The client continues to download, at least until the drive fills. It does "maybe" correlate with articles not being available on one of my providers, as I've consistently seen these in the logs each time it has occurred. But, I wouldn't jump to that being the obvious cause. A restart of the client or host machine doesn't correct the issue.

There's nothing interesting in the logs that I can tell in the four times I've seen it thus far. I have observed a consistent CPU load from the client when it "locks up", but even leaving it for many hours doesn't change anything. Although I don't know for sure, I don't think the source files have anything to do with it, especially since downgrading to 6.90 fixes the issue.

Downgrading to 6.90 has fixed the issue every time it happens. I'd love to solve the frequent crashes I'm seeing on 6.90, though, which I'm fairly confident 6.91 does address.

Thanks for the software, been using it for a ridiculous number of years now!
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Thu Nov 14, 2024 5:38 am

Quade wrote:I'm not sure. I've re-worked this significantly for RC4 because of reports that it wouldn't shut down.

I'll see if I can reproduce it.


Thanks. I did go back to the 6.90 (5524) build. Sadly this has just occurred again. Two nzb's loaded. After the first has completed the client closes down. When opened the 2nd will then complete. Nothing of particular interest that I can see in the logs....?

Again, I retained the feature for confirmation on closing, that doesn't seem to help.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby ccarlin » Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:50 pm

[[Reported issue: Sometimes, typically when a lot of files get queued up, it'll just stop processing the files. Downloads continue, but PAR fixes and extractions cease. The client continues to download, at least until the drive fills. It does "maybe" correlate with articles not being available on one of my providers, as I've consistently seen these in the logs each time it has occurred. But, I wouldn't jump to that being the obvious cause. A restart of the client or host machine doesn't correct the issue.]]

I've experienced the same thing - 10-15 files queued for download, the files download, but par fixes and/or extraction doesn't every happen. Right click requests to resume or retry the download don't work and neither does restarting newsbin. The files just sit in the "downloading files" column. Instead of falling back to an earlier version of newsbin I just manually open the .nzb for the "frozen" file(s) and re-download it. If my memory is correct - this workaround has worked in the vast majority of cases. And, as noted, this "freeze" occurred with files downloaded that had portions from multiple news servers. I've also just deleted the downloaded files and used a different .nzb for the file I wanted.

Related, I've also experienced a similar problem. Same conditions/symptoms, except after maybe 4-5 minutes of no activity newsbin will all of a sudden start processing the downloads. I've never been able to determine why this happened or how to duplicate it, so I've not reported it either.

I may have an odd configuration, as I regularly use multiple servers (different countries) from 2 or 3 different news providers. So, I have a prioritized list of about 7-9 servers for newsbin to choose to download from. Maybe this is somehow related?
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Sat Nov 16, 2024 11:17 am

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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Sun Nov 17, 2024 3:22 pm

Related, I've also experienced a similar problem. Same conditions/symptoms, except after maybe 4-5 minutes of no activity newsbin will all of a sudden start processing the downloads. I've never been able to determine why this happened or how to duplicate it, so I've not reported it either.


Some recent postings don't use RARs anymore. It's one large 100,000 post (or more) files. Before it was RAR files with 60-250 posts per file. When they download, it takes awhile to assemble them and it takes awhile to scan them to make sure they're good. If they need repair it really slows down because, the process of looking for valid blocks in a damaged file is particularly slow.

If they use passwords and you are depending on a large password list instead of assign the passwords to the download, it's even slower.

I have a feeling the problem is more that you're not getting visual feedback than that it's not working. I've been thinking about re-working the way progress is shown in light of these new massive single files.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby stavros » Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:49 pm

Quade wrote:
I have a feeling the problem is more that you're not getting visual feedback than that it's not working. I've been thinking about re-working the way progress is shown in light of these new massive single files


Hi Quade,
If you get a chance to look at the progress feedback, could you have a look at what is happening when the
"Pause Download during UNRAR/Repair" option under performance is enabled, please?

I have this set, but I am seeing downloads not pausing when a repair and/or unrar/extract is happening.
It could easily be that it is happening too fast for the gui to keep up, but It looks like it is not obeying the pause properly.

I have set the cache to 600 and have a 3Gb/sec download link, with 3 servers at priority 1 with 32 connections between them (8, 16 & 8 )., this generally saturates the download pipeline for large downloads.
The Unrar and download locations are set to use separate dedicated 2TB NVME SSDs.

I am seeing that during a repair and unrar of, say, a 7GB file, the download continues.
This could be that new chunk download requests have ceased, but there were incoming data chunks from previous requests, but it seems to keep on going,
sometimes for long enough (> 20secs) for the entire extract process to complete.
Also, the status does not change to "Paused" in the status bar - again this could be GUI update lag, but it seems to be nearly always "Running" during this time frame.

I used to see (in pre 6.9 builds, not sure when this started) the download complete to the point when a repair and unrar start, then the status would change to "Paused" until the file was landed in the ultimate destination,
then the status would change to "Running" and downloads would continue.

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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Tue Nov 19, 2024 5:07 am

FYI. Just to keep you informed. I *think* that I have finally found out why Newsbin was exiting almost after each and every extraction completed, if there was more than one.

I have removed this....

https://www.startallback.com/

and now I get no more...

Faulting application name: NewsbinPro64.exe, version: 6.8.0.0, time stamp: 0x62069fdb
Faulting module name: explorerframe.dll, version: 10.0.22621.4391, time stamp: 0x8f2cefa4
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000000d91f7
Faulting process id: 0x0x59F0
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DB3827E632CF66
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Newsbin\NewsbinPro64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\explorerframe.dll
Report Id: 6d0e5bc3-f584-43c1-8d9a-2bc2d06cac26
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

according to the event viewer.

if this continues it will confirm that particular utility, in my case, was the problem.

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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:59 pm

1 used to see (in pre 6.9 builds, not sure when this started) the download complete to the point when a repair and unrar start, then the status would change to "Paused" until the file was landed in the ultimate destination,
then the status would change to "Running" and downloads would continue.


I'll check it out. Thanks.

and now I get no more...


That's interesting. What does this software do?

I have a feeling it has something to do with the task bar decorations. For newsbin to crash from this is probably still a Newsbin bug. In the sense that Newsbin shouldn't crash no matter what the task bar is doing.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Tue Nov 19, 2024 6:40 pm

Quade wrote:
1 used to see (in pre 6.9 builds, not sure when this started) the download complete to the point when a repair and unrar start, then the status would change to "Paused" until the file was landed in the ultimate destination,
then the status would change to "Running" and downloads would continue.


I'll check it out. Thanks.

and now I get no more...


That's interesting. What does this software do?

I have a feeling it has something to do with the task bar decorations. For newsbin to crash from this is probably still a Newsbin bug. In the sense that Newsbin shouldn't crash no matter what the task bar is doing.



For those who wish to restore a lot of functionality, both functional and aesthetics, to Windows 11, that they have been used to in previous versions of Windows, it is a most wonderful utility.
Taskbar visual and functional changes are part of it, as are Explorer changes.

It took me some time to figure that one out and quite a lot of searching for faults with "explorerframe.dll", or should I note crashes. The clues, somewhat vague, was using a utility that altered in some way the way that explorer functions, or is expected to function.

Newsbin is the ONLY software application that I have that acts in such a way to cause such a crash ONLY when the circumstances noted previously apply.

One content within the download Window, that single content could be made of plenty of files and pars that would be no issue. It would extract fine and wait for the next nzb to be loaded.
BUT if there are more than one lined up to download it would more often or not crash to the desktop, with that faulting module noted, at the end of the extraction and the commencement of the next content item to download.
On re-opening Newsbin it would start again to download the file that it had just concluded to extract.

My Event Viewer was quite filled with those critical crashes, due to Newsbin. Each and every time this issue occurred. Whilst it does not happen since I removed the utility I would like to use it at some point.

I am still using build 23H2 of Windows 11

Hope that helps, somewhat.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby JayPea » Wed Nov 20, 2024 3:08 am

Vimes wrote:
Quade wrote:
1 used to see (in pre 6.9 builds, not sure when this started) the download complete to the point when a repair and unrar start, then the status would change to "Paused" until the file was landed in the ultimate destination,
then the status would change to "Running" and downloads would continue.


I'll check it out. Thanks.

and now I get no more...


That's interesting. What does this software do?

I have a feeling it has something to do with the task bar decorations. For newsbin to crash from this is probably still a Newsbin bug. In the sense that Newsbin shouldn't crash no matter what the task bar is doing.



For those who wish to restore a lot of functionality, both functional and aesthetics, to Windows 11, that they have been used to in previous versions of Windows, it is a most wonderful utility.
Taskbar visual and functional changes are part of it, as are Explorer changes.


Quade, I'd like to add that I am also a registered user of StartAllBack (I wouldn't give up my old-school Quick Launch) and this is the same .dll file that was causing the crashes we were discussing via PM.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:18 am

@JayPea


Interesting, so not necessarily linked to my particular setup then, thanks for posting.
I hadn't expected it to be, as already noted, Newsbin is the only application that I have seen behave this way, in terms of crashes.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby JayPea » Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:59 am

Vimes wrote:@JayPea


Interesting, so not necessarily linked to my particular setup then, thanks for posting.
I hadn't expected it to be, as already noted, Newsbin is the only application that I have seen behave this way, in terms of crashes.


I haven't seen many CTD tbh, perhaps 3-4 in total since using v5855, and I haven't seen one for a while. I'll post publically on the next one, if/when it occurrs.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:09 am

JayPea wrote:
Vimes wrote:@JayPea


Interesting, so not necessarily linked to my particular setup then, thanks for posting.
I hadn't expected it to be, as already noted, Newsbin is the only application that I have seen behave this way, in terms of crashes.


I haven't seen many CTD tbh, perhaps 3-4 in total since using v5855, and I haven't seen one for a while. I'll post publically on the next one, if/when it occurrs.


It can be erratic for me. That is what threw me for some time as to not thinking about the event viewer to see if there could have been an associated crash is assuming that Newsbin was just exiting. Even then it is not each and every time. Just enough though to be there and to be an issue.
I have gone back to the 6.90 release, not being sure if that could have helped before I noted the crashes related with the application.

But, for now, I have removed StartAllBack, not happy about that really. At least I can have several nzb's lined up knowing that Newsbin is not going crash between each one. That was a problem if not at the PC at the time of using it.

At least Quade understands about this issue now.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Fri Nov 22, 2024 3:23 pm

I've made code changes to armor access to the taskbar. I assume it's taskbar related because the software you're using seems to modify how that all works.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:39 pm

Quade wrote:I've made code changes to armor access to the taskbar. I assume it's taskbar related because the software you're using seems to modify how that all works.



Thanks for doing that. Is that in a build ready for testing, meaning this one..? Or would that be in a future one..?

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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Tue Nov 26, 2024 5:51 pm

JayPea wrote:
Vimes wrote:@JayPea


Interesting, so not necessarily linked to my particular setup then, thanks for posting.
I hadn't expected it to be, as already noted, Newsbin is the only application that I have seen behave this way, in terms of crashes.


I haven't seen many CTD tbh, perhaps 3-4 in total since using v5855, and I haven't seen one for a while. I'll post publically on the next one, if/when it occurrs.


I installed "startallback" 3.8.13 in a Windows 11 VM and told it to look like Win10. I couldn't repro any crashes. I don't have a full Win11 because I installed a light version that doesn't require a microsoft account. What did you ask it to look like? I wonder if one of the other modes is crashy.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Wed Nov 27, 2024 5:32 am

For me, I was not sure if it was related to using StarTAllBack, Newsbin AND a Windows 11 updates, of some sort....? As, for a while, they seemed to co-exist alright. BUT I also did not often have a long list of nzb files queued, it would only crash with more than one nzb queued.....

In the app I selected "Kinda 10" as a theme but then made many smaller changed to the UI and taskbar, like totally transparent taskbar.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Wed Nov 27, 2024 2:47 pm

For me, I was not sure if it was related to using StarTAllBack, Newsbin AND a Windows 11 updates, of some sort....?


Funny you should mention that. MS just announced one of their updates stops Ubisoft games from playing.

These days I keep my updates disabled and only update when the coast seems clear.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:22 pm

Quade wrote:
For me, I was not sure if it was related to using StarTAllBack, Newsbin AND a Windows 11 updates, of some sort....?


Funny you should mention that. MS just announced one of their updates stops Ubisoft games from playing.

These days I keep my updates disabled and only update when the coast seems clear.



I could be wrong here. But I have a thought that with Windows 11 updates can be deferred / paused, only some, for so long, and then they seem to be applied. It can sometimes be only with hindsight that you might find out about issues, typically too late. Other security type update just update regardless afaik.

If that is the case then it can be a challenge, and MS is not making it any easier with legacy OS's support either.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Thu Nov 28, 2024 1:14 am

I could be wrong here. But I have a thought that with Windows 11 updates can be deferred / paused, only some, for so long,


Where there's a will, there's a way. Even though Win11 turns your PC into Microsoft's PC there are always work-arounds if you have physical access to the machine and control the internet that it's connected to. For example I have a box that does ad blocking using DNS. It can also block telemetry and other "phone home" by simply not letting the PC find the address of the remote server. I firewall DNS so, machines on my network are required to use this box for DNS.

I'm still on Win10 and won't change till I'm forced to. I have Win11 running in a VM under Linux so I can test with it.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:16 am

Quade wrote:
I could be wrong here. But I have a thought that with Windows 11 updates can be deferred / paused, only some, for so long,


Where there's a will, there's a way. Even though Win11 turns your PC into Microsoft's PC there are always work-arounds if you have physical access to the machine and control the internet that it's connected to. For example I have a box that does ad blocking using DNS. It can also block telemetry and other "phone home" by simply not letting the PC find the address of the remote server. I firewall DNS so, machines on my network are required to use this box for DNS.

I'm still on Win10 and won't change till I'm forced to. I have Win11 running in a VM under Linux so I can test with it.



Not just a will, but a skill as well.....

After Windows 7, imo, Windows seemed to go in a direction that included more online / telemetry type gathering and presence, due to the rise in popularity of the internet and its availability etc, than it had ever been.
If I wasn't so complacent and, to a point, dependant on Windows I might have jumped ship some time back to Linux. But complacency and need have, so far, stopped that from happening.
Goodness knows how far Windows will morph to a point where it itself might compel me to make changes.......Acquiring more skill to go with the enforced will.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:31 am

I agree. They've been wresting control away from the users. I wish they had a "nomie" and "advanced" mode so, if you know what you're doing you could take the training wheels off.

Microsoft makes most of their money from the cloud these days so, I suspect they don't care as much about Windows market share. While Linux is usable and a viable choice if you know how to use it. It's not nearly as smooth or compatible as Windows.

If all you do it browse the web, consume media and run Newsbin, Linux is a good choice.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby JayPea » Sat Nov 30, 2024 4:15 am

If you're going to use W11 then, in my opinion, you should be using either LTSC or Enterprise. With Enterprise you can gpedit everything out to retain full control of your client and LTSC just doesn't have it in there to begin with as it's a barebones version designed for EPOS or mission-critical machines and only gets security updates over the product support lifecycle. Neither of these are end-user facing versions, ie not for sale to normies, but that doesn't mean you can't obtain them or be unable to activate them with a genuine digital license. It just needs some research :) The W10 based version of LTSC is even supported until 2030 and it's totally possible to 'upgrade' from a version that's going EOL in October 2025 with some registry editing. Nobody needs to either give up W10 or pay MS for Extended Support if they don't want to.

IMO MS still makes the majority of their cash through Enterprise licensing. Having been around negotiations for Enterprise Agreements and the bundling they're doing to lock corporate customers into their value-added services, which prevents any meaningful competition as why would people go lookling elsewhere for the products they're getting for 'free', the sums are eye-watering. Couple that with their Azure/off-prem/cloud services and you can begin to see the reasons why they can afford to drop $70b on ActiBlizzard without batting an eyelid.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby kenr » Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:54 am

Quade wrote:If all you do it browse the web, consume media and run Newsbin, Linux is a good choice.

Not really true these days, Modern Linux is more and more a viable alternative. I switched yonks ago when Vista (spit!) wouldn't work with my YEAR old printer or scanner. Linux just worked and keeps working.
The hassles I have trying to get W11 to talk to a peripheral is beyond a joke sometimes. Want to burn a blue-ray disk, sure just jump onto the store and pay $$$ for an app.

The only thing I do these days on win is gaming, and kindle for some reason the new kindle app doesn't run under wine.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Sun Dec 01, 2024 7:03 am

I like the expression "Normies" to describe a more typical Windows user. That user base has been well established over decades and, for a myriad of reasons, Linux has tended to be marginalised in terms of being widely adopted. If anything MS is helping to motivate me to look at Linux, not sure how that would go.

Then again I had not considered LTSC or Enterprise editions......The W10 LTSC with support up to 2030.......probably take me that long to get comfortable with Linux.

Quade, any adjustments you have made in regards to the original issue, will that be noted in a future build..?

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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Quade » Sun Dec 01, 2024 10:15 am

Newsbin updates the task bar after a download completes. It shows a sort of progress bar indicating how many downloads are left to complete. I suspect but can't prove that it's updating the taskbar that crashes it. That's assuming "startall" really is the culprit. In my testing, I couldn't make RC3 crash under Win11 with multiple downloads.

Since removing "startall" seems to stop it from crashing, it still seems like a decent theory. I looked the code for accessing the task bar and didn't see any obvious crash code. So I'm flying blind.

Are you using anything like post-unrar scripting?
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Sun Dec 01, 2024 12:24 pm

No, nothing exotic with my build or different from a std install of Newsbin and running from there.

Point taken about the suspicion of the app in combination with Windows 11 and, perhaps, even certain settings within the app itself. There could be other anomalies as well that can be difficult to reproduce.

At one point reproducing was happening quite frequently only when the nzb's were stacked and one followed another....

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I'm running without StartAllBack now and all is good. Then again, with Windows updates being a variable, and maybe at some point StartAllBack will be updated, there are few constants. I know that my main PC has just had some more Windows updates........

Thanks for trying with what you have tested, appreciate the time it must have taken.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby JayPea » Tue Dec 03, 2024 2:49 pm

Vimes wrote:Then again, with Windows updates being a variable, and maybe at some point StartAllBack will be updated


For sure. Visual updates are coming next 'Patch Tuesday', which is one week today
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:37 am

Wonderful, lol.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Saskija » Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:09 pm

I was also suffering from inexplicable Newsbin crashes for the last couple of months. In my case I'm still using the last official release: Newsbin Pro 6.90 b5524. Interesting to find out that StartAllBack is the culprit.

From what I gather parts of StartAllBack were rewritten after MS decided to remove the legacy code the tool depended upon to show the Windows 10 taskbar. The tool was always 100% stable, but from that point I started encountering bugs like the taskbar not showing multiple application windows if I hovered the mouse on the taskbar icon. Those issues have now cleared up, but it seems there's at least one more bug left to fix.

BTW The StartAllBack developer needs crash dumps before he accepts bug reports.

This is how to generate them:

1) Import this registry key http://startisback.com/Enable_Crash_Reports.reg

2) Create C:\dumps folder

3) Crash

4) Send dmp file from C:\dumps folder

The developer hangs out on msfn.org, his handle is Tihiy.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:40 am

After 24H2 installed and going back to StartAllBack...

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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Mon Dec 09, 2024 7:32 pm

Saskija wrote:I was also suffering from inexplicable Newsbin crashes for the last couple of months. In my case I'm still using the last official release: Newsbin Pro 6.90 b5524. Interesting to find out that StartAllBack is the culprit.

From what I gather parts of StartAllBack were rewritten after MS decided to remove the legacy code the tool depended upon to show the Windows 10 taskbar. The tool was always 100% stable, but from that point I started encountering bugs like the taskbar not showing multiple application windows if I hovered the mouse on the taskbar icon. Those issues have now cleared up, but it seems there's at least one more bug left to fix.

BTW The StartAllBack developer needs crash dumps before he accepts bug reports.

This is how to generate them:

1) Import this registry key http://startisback.com/Enable_Crash_Reports.reg

2) Create C:\dumps folder

3) Crash

4) Send dmp file from C:\dumps folder

The developer hangs out on msfn.org, his handle is Tihiy.



Thanks, saw your post after I visited again to post that above.

I am still trying to get my account validated and not getting any response from the admins over there as yet.
However, reading the thread somewhat....... The responses are not great at times.

Startallback worked great for me in every way. However not so, it seems, with Newsbin.

I have again removed Startallback to see if the errors should happen again, most likely not.

It is only Newsbin that crashes as shown.

EDIT: Gone back to a new beta release of StartAllBack, to see if that helps.
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Re: Newsbin 6.91 RC3 - Build 5855

Postby Vimes » Tue Dec 10, 2024 5:07 am

Hi

There is a index site that hosts some NZB files that are simply a non named file, long list of letters and numbers, and then a few pars. They seem to work ok apart from the non naming of the file when extracted. Is there a way for Newsbin to take the name from the folder used, which is fine, and then change the file name on extraction to reflect that...?

Thanks


BTW tried so many times to send you @Quade a PM. Three times in a row I click to send and get returned back to the log in page, to complete a type of captcha, each time. Of course I am logged at the start. The PM never sends.
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