On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 5:51:12 PM UTC-7, dsi1 wrote:
> On 11/24/2013 9:27 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > I am only asking here in the hopes that someone has a solution.
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> > Everything worked fine until the wee hours of the morning. Then Windows
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> > Mail started acting up. Was telling me that it couldn't open because
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> > another instance of it was already loaded (it wasn't) or that there was
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> > low memory. A couple of reboots solved that. The problem was then that
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> > it kept wanting to compact the messages but it wouldn't work. And it
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> > kept restarting, only to repeat. I might have a lead on that but in the
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> > meantime, I got it to where it never asks to compact.
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> >
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> > The big problem I have now is that alt.support.diabetes won't load. It
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> > tells me that there are 28 messages and yet when I click on it, the top
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> > of the screen is blank and below it tells me that it can't load the
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> > folder. Cause may be low disk space or low memory. Neither is the
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> > case. I know that the newsgroup is still up and running.
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> >
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> > I also know that others have had the same problem with just one
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> > newsgroup not loading (not this same group though) while running
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> > Thunderbird. I have Windows Mail and am running Vista 32 bit. One
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> > suggestion was to change to Windows Live Mail but I fear new problems
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> > with that. Am also using Eternal September.
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> >
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> > Any suggestions about why I can no longer get this group? Obvious fixes
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> > like unsubscribing, resubscribing, resetting the list and rebooting do
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> > not help.
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> >
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> > Thanks for any light you might be able to shed on this! Have posted to
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> > other, more suitable newsgroups but no clues as to the group not loading.
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> You could unsubscribe from the NG and then subscribe again. That's what
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> works for me although I don't know what program you're using (Windows
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> Mail?) alt.support.diabetes seems like a lively newsgroup. I predict
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> that it will only get more lively. By "lively" I mean it's a little
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> nutty was well as being highly active - but you already know about that.

She got it fixed. Computer shop found viruses...she doesn't know
how she got them.
Probably from those "health" sites she goes to.
She'll be back on here in no time.

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