Crash a few mins into d/l & unexplained "too long" log errors

[GrantT]

Hi team..

Hoping you can help me with something that started a few days ago.  My symptom is that Alt.Binz is fine, but if I kick off a download it will crash the app about 2 mins into any download. 

I have used any number of different NZB's with the same result.  My download directory is D:\Download with sufficient free space, and I've never had this issue in the years I've been using Alt.Binz but now it's every time. 

I turned on logging and I can see thousands of rows of [15/05/2010 8:42:03 AM] [Dec] Exception Cannot create file The filename or extension is too long" in between the various "Article started" and "Article finished" messages for the content downloaded in the ~2 mins before it bombs.  I changed my default download directory to just D:\ and the crashes still happen. 

Looking at what's actually downloaded there seems to be no evidence of unusally deep paths or long filenames.  Sometimes I'll have a Windows crash message on-screen, and other times the app just disappears.

Event Viewer says:
Faulting application altbinz.exe, version 0.31.5.0, faulting module altbinz.exe, version 0.31.5.0, fault address 0x000022b4.

OS is XP, fully updated & tried both 0.31.5 and 0.31.4 with the same result.  No evidence of other general computing issues and generally a pretty static machine used only for Alt.Binz and a bit of browsing.

Any suggestions from you kind folk? 

[Hecks]

Are you sure there isn't something sitting in your cache trying to decode to an illegal full path length?  I'd start by clearing that out first and see if that shifts it.

Sadly this is quite an easy error to come up against, since Alt.Binz doesn't try to sanitize paths.

[xombiehunter]

i had the same problem with 31.4. i uninstalled and went back to 31.3 untill 31.5 came out and havent had the problem since. 

[GrantT]

Ah-hah!  There must have been something odd in my (all paused) queue because export them, then Ctrl-A, Del and then re-adding something newly searched seems to have worked - no crash.

Come to think of it I've had an odd symptom for a while prior to this (before crashes) where I'd add something from a search but I couldn't see it on the default Queue tab.  If I typed part of the NZB name into the filter freetext box then it would show up - but backspace again and it wouldn't be seen even if I scrolled up/down my list of ~50 paused items.  I wonder if that symptom will also disappear now....

Thanks for the assistance.  Hopefully someone else with a forum search benefits in the future too.    (...and my problem doesn't resurface, of course!)