Hogwasher Weirdness

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James L. Ryan - 07 May 2005 16:27 GMT

I have been using Hogwasher as my newsreader for several years and have been
extremely satisfied with it. This morning I launched Hogwasher and read a
number of postings and made a couple myself. I then closed Hogwasher for a
while and then relaunched it. On the relaunch things were as though I hadn't
been on since April 4th. Instead of a subscription listing a handful of new
postings there were thousands upon thousands. A check of my account and
subscription information showed that the changes I made earlier in the week
when (Many thanks to Howard Shubs for the reference!) I deleted my
subscriptions to SBC DSL and changed them to Supernews had been forgotten and
the deleted SBC DSL subscriptions were restored. I then shut down Hogwasher
and relaunched it. Would you believe that all was back to normal, that my
Supernews subscription information had been restored and the SBC DSL ones
forgotten. This without any actions on my part. This has been reported to
Asar, the suppliers of Hogwasher. I'd be interested if anyone else has had a
similar experience. What happened was totally weird!

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gtr - 07 May 2005 16:41 GMT

> I have been using Hogwasher as my newsreader for several years and have been
> extremely satisfied with it. This morning I launched Hogwasher and read a
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> Asar, the suppliers of Hogwasher. I'd be interested if anyone else has had a
> similar experience. What happened was totally weird!

Not quite the same, no, but I had an experience that was so wiggy I
didn't track it down like a dog, which I might normally attempt.

Two days into Tiger, generally free of any confusion with the exception
of a few upgrades to older software and such, I open Mail.app to check
my email.

There are 230 new emails beginning a couple of weeks ago and extending
to many months prior. I examine 20-30 of them and see it is all email
I've read and dealt with long ago. I sort by message-title and find
they aren't duplicates. I flag them all as "read", scratch my head and
move on.

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Chad Irby - 07 May 2005 21:14 GMT

> Two days into Tiger, generally free of any confusion with the exception
> of a few upgrades to older software and such, I open Mail.app to check
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> they aren't duplicates. I flag them all as "read", scratch my head and
> move on.

Sounds like you had the server set to _not_ delete read messages.

I've had this behavior before (ran Eudora after a couple of months of
Mail, and saw a whole lot of messages that were supposed to be gone and
forgotten).

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James D. Beard - 22 May 2005 02:40 GMT

I am not familiar with Hogwasher, but it is quite common for a
software package to keep not only preferences/settings files but
to keep backup versions of same, sometimes hidden somewhere.

If there is a hiccup and the application cannot find its settings,
or they are corrupt, it looks for the backups and loads those if
available. This can present you with old data/settings/etc. Then,
when the application is shut down and started again, it again looks
for its preferences/settings, finds them, and they work just fine.
Back to normal!

Cheers!

jim b.

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