Re: Repair groups loop

In message <mpro.ocpsop00itcbu0k4y.mark@...>
     Mark Sawle <mark@...> wrote:

> Frederick Bambrough <fred@...> wrote:
> 
> > I selected 'Repair groups' with all groups selected. Messenger Pro
> > went through the process of listing each group as 'Intiating repair'
> > through to the last when it then looped back to the start running
> > through again & again. Forced quit and on restart the loop continued.
> > 
> > I resolved it by replacing .gemini from backup. What in .gemini is
> > linked to this behaviour? This time I was fortunate in that my backup
> > was less than an hour old in up time but it would have been nice to do
> > a direct fix rather than replace the lot.
> 
> The repair process is itself in need of repair (had to say that!) due to
> a bug which crept in during performance improvements to the indexing
> code. It goes something like this: the index is corrupt, so it starts a
> repair, which loads the index, which is corrupt, and so on.
> 
> V2.68.5 is the last known good version and can be used to get out of a
> looping repair. I believe I do have a fix for this which I'm hoping to
> release in the next week or so.

Thanks Mark. Just for clarity, I don't know that the index was corrupt for
sure. I initiated the repair myself, having glimpsed some identical
messages which became one when opened (as shown by the group message
count). Given that it was isolated to one group I suspect it may actually
have been an issue for the sender. Would MPro have dealt with identical
message IDs?

On the subject of updates, looking at the Mac newsgroups it seems that
Messenger Pro may be the last maintained usenet client available for Macs.

-- 
Fred

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