Re: BNR3 under Vista

> Stormblade wrote:
>>> stormblade31 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone gotten it working under Vista? If we can't get a
>>>> new version with new features it'd be nice to just be able to
>>>> run it properly under Vista.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Works great. Install to an appropriate location (\Program
>>> Files\BNR3\ should work), place the INI and data files in an
>>> appropriate location (%userprofile%\appdata\roaming\BNR3\ is
>>> ideal), create an appropriate shortcut, for example,
>>>
>>> "C:\Program Files\BNR\BNR3.exe" -ini
>>> C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Roaming\BNR3\NZB.ini
>>>
>>> And you're laughing.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, if you have some obsession with bad practice,
>>> place the app and data in the same directory and give yourself
>>> full control over that directory (you personally, not by proxy
>>> as a member of the Administrators group)
>>>
>>>
>> I ignored the errors I was getting and it seems to be working
>> somewhat. Some things don't work because they error out. For
>> example, I create a new server. I right click and choose
>> properties. I get an error and it doesn't do anything. But I can
>> select it and choose properties on the top menu and get there
>> fine.
>>
>> I had a couple of access violations for BNR3 itself but it seems
>> to work just not without errors on occassion.
>>
>
> I get the odd error when adding/editing servers, but that's not
> something I'd call unusual in BNR3, Vista or no. More or less it
> just works, except that one of my installs doesn't seem to go
> online to download articles anymore (But if I manually connect, it
> works until a timeout or other disconnect)

*nod* Well least its working somewhat and sadly even in it's current state its still better than what I've seen out there. At least for my needs. Newsman Pro though came very close. It has all the features I could want. Only thing about it is that it didn't seem to be too tolerant for some things. Like I'd queue up a ton of things for BNR and leave it running. Tried that with NMP and came back with it complaining about this or that. Annoying to say the least. But if BNR had:

1. Ability to use external database (MySQL / SQLServer) as well as it's own internal database
2. Advanced filtering (See scoring type systems)
3. Tighter or more configurable combining code ie let us set it to a percentage.
4. Add the code back in to re-scan and re-create the queue on crash like BNR2 has

Those four things and I'd be in heaven with BNR3. NMP has all that and then some but...

> I haven't put the time into tracking it down, these days I just
> generate my own NZB files using Easynews and use BNR2 to download.

NZB files are awesome...when you are looking for something in particular or know what you want. Me, I tend to just browse. Heh reminds me of what they did to the libraries. In the libraries of old they'd often have things organized by section. I could go into the sci-fi / fantasy section and browse. But most now don't do that. So you have to know what you're looking for first. Then you can find it very easily indeed.

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