Thanks for the feedback. I had checked to make sure they were all there.
But for some reason (maybe that newsgroup has a limitation on it?) I woulnd
up with 4 files that I can "see" as being there but when I try and download
them, I get a "connection failed". I tried d'loading another file or 2 and
had no problem so I was just guessing that they were somehow "pahntom"
files. I thought maybe someone else had the same experience or that I was
just missing something obvious. But I guess it's all just hit-and-miss with
this stuff... Again, thanks for your response. And BTW, if I did want to
get those files, is a "binary" newsgroup the sppropriate place to make a
request? I see a lot of files in a series that have been uploaded saying
"by request...". Do you know how to originate such a request?
Thanks,
Mike
"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego"
wrote in
message news:9rip041vcfspmne0or0srmj4qaikk3bk7s@4ax.com...> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:17:07 -0400, "MikeB"
ricit.com>
> wrote:
>>>It's weird. I just got NewsBin, a great News Group reader, and it shows
>>way
>>more threads on a group that what old Outlook Express would show. But I
>>went to
alt.binaries.tv and tried to get an episode of Dexter. I managed
>>to
>>get all but 4 or the 50 or so .rar files.
>>
>>I'm new to this stuff and would really appreaciate some help. Is there
>>any
>>way to know, before beginning a huge download, that all of the .rar files
>>will be avaialable? We're talking almost 1GB of files and none of them
>>are
>>worth anything unless all of them are available - it's a lot of bandwidth
>>to
>>be wasting.
>
> Yep. Look at the headers for each thing you're trying to nab.
> usually there will be an indication in the subject line like (01/48)
> where that particular piece is number 1 of 48 total. If they're all
> there DL away. If it's a new post, give it some time as the posts
> need to propagate and sometimes you catch things before they're fully
> distributed.
>
> If there are PAR files posted with it, DL those and they can be used
> to fix or recreate missing pieces. You need something like QuickPAR
> to do so.
>
>
