At 01:35 AM 5/18/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, guys.
>
>My Windows 2000 computer crashed a couple of times during
>startup (Windows 2000 startup, that is). Now, my Dnews seems to
>have **NO** groups. I used to have 20 (or so) of them. There are no
>errors in Dnews*.log. Spool and work **seem** to be intact. I
>haven't a clue where to begin. I get this:
>
>v:\> tellnews showgroups
>200 localhost DNEWS Version 5.5a3, S0, posting OK
>[0:1] control start=2 end=2 items=1, upto on feed 0, days 0 Pile 0 3
>xov=0
>[1:2] control.cancel start=2 end=2 items=1, upto on feed 0, days 0
>Pile 0 3 xov
>=0
>281 Completed
>205 closing connection - goodbye!
Stop dnews, look in dnews work and spool and log for these two files
active.mon
active.bak
See which one contains your news groups, once you find it copy it to
\dnews\work\active.dat
Then start dnews and type in:
tellnews check_index
Then all your groups should exist and the contents should be there too.
If the contents is missing, try a
tellnews rebuild_index
But normally that isn't needed.
ChrisP.
