Upgraded and now ANTIMATTER CONTAINMENT FAILURE!

[kwakanut]

Upgraded to 28 from 25 and now am unable to search the groups.  When I pick a group, any group, and click search, it comes up blank.  This is the case in binsearch, betabinaries, etc. Basically it's as if the newsgroups are empty.  I checked set up and everything is the same as it was before I upgraded (25 had the binsearch problem, of course) and prior to my upgrade to 25 had no problems.  I'm sure it's something simple, but I don't know what!

[Hecks]

[Vista bashing deleted]

Edit 2: Are you searching with a blank string?  That won't work for Binsearch.  Use Browse button instead.  Newzleech and NZBIndex are fine with this though (in fact you need to do it to retrieve the group lists).

There is no groups option on the beta.binaries.nl tab.

[kwakanut]

That's another problem:  in Binsearch I no longer have a Browse button.  What happened to it?

[Hecks]

Clicked 'Fetch' (group list)?

[kwakanut]

There is no button for fetching, browsing or any other similar word.  The only button is Search.

I now have another problem that is vexing me (which isn't hard since I know very little about computer terminology), but I was downloading files today and it sent each and every file to the NZB folder whether or not it had the NZB extension.  And now they just sit there as NZB files and I've no idea how to extract/download them.  When I open the NZB file and double click on them, altbinz shows files are being downloaded, but nothing shows up in the download folder.

[Hecks]

That's quite a package of confusions there.  So i'll try to simplify:

1. Browse button: expand the toolbar until it you see it.  Look at the screenshots here for reference:

https://www.altbinz.net/wiki/Using_the_Search_Engines#Binsearch

2. NZB files: yes this is normal and to be expected.  Alt.Binz automatically creates NZB files from whatever you add to the queue, and will save them to your NZB folder unless you specify otherwise in Setup > NZB.  Alt.Binz needs this information to pull the articles you want from your server.  If you haven't already, do please read this:

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

and this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzb

3. No downloads: well, this can be for any number of reasons, 99% of which involve user error.  So your first port of call MUST be your Log tab.  What does it say?  Report on any errors here.

[kwakanut]

That's quite a package of confusions there.  So i'll try to simplify:

1. Browse button: expand the toolbar until it you see it.  Look at the screenshots here for reference:

https://www.altbinz.net/wiki/Using_the_Search_Engines#Binsearch

I took care of that one.  Rather easy.   Just had to expand the toolbar about a lousy micromillimeter

2. NZB files: yes this is normal and to be expected.  Alt.Binz automatically creates NZB files from whatever you add to the queue, and will save them to your NZB folder unless you specify otherwise in Setup > NZB.  Alt.Binz needs this information to pull the articles you want from your server.  If you haven't already, do please read this:

http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

and this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzb

I have it set up to go to the NZB folder.  For the problem, see the error code below

3. No downloads: well, this can be for any number of reasons, 99% of which involve user error.  So your first port of call MUST be your Log tab.  What does it say?  Report on any errors here.

Not sure but I'm thinking this makes the other 1% since I never changed anything and on 9/23 it worked fine.  Also, today when I restarted altbinz it did what ever it is supposed to do with the NZB files and I have them now.

[2008-09-24 11:23:16] [Dec] Exception Cannot create file "". The system cannot find the path specified

Any thoughts on why that error occurred?  More than happy to admit operator error if I can learn what I did.  Thanks for all your help, btw.

[Hecks]

Exception Cannot create file ""

Means, I presume, that the file being decoded has no recognisable filename, or illegal characters in the path, and/or probably points to a bad post.  Never seen this before, so not sure.

Somehow I don't think you'll be seeing this one often. If you do, we need to press the Rdl Activation Button.

P.S. Remember that NZBs are just information files: lists in xml format of article parts and how to find them on your server.  Once added to the queue, you don't need them anymore.  Certainly there's no reason for your default download folder to be the same as your NZB folder.  Actually, download, NZB, autoimport, temp and unrar/destination folders should all be set to be different.