Forte Agent 2.0 is Released

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Forte Agent 2.0 has been released. The new version does not yet have support for multiple servers (supposedly will be in 2.1), and the upgrade is not free to version 1.X users unless you purchased it after December 9th, 2003.

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Edit by Rastabt...5 May 2004..@ NoSpam please include details of sotfware and homepage links in your post... Thank you

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Agent 2.0 is the top-rated Usenet newsreader on the Internet. Agent is also an excellent POP email client.

This high level of integration between Usenet news and POP email separates Agent from all other communication products. Whether you are downloading yEnc binaries or responding to email, Agent provides you with all the right features..

Agent is also the most mature newsreader on the market. Since the introduction of "Agent .99" in 1994, Agent has always maintained the highest possible ratings from the most trusted sites for Internet software.

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[Mickey Sabbath]

Help: Forte Consumed My Hard Drive

I'm a newbie to newsgroups and recently began experimenting with FORTE AGENT. BIG MISTAKE. I followed Slycks Guide to Agent (http://www.slyck.com/agent.php) but somehow I overlooked step the MOST IMPORTANT STEP: 3. Click After saving an attachment, remove it from the message - this is perhaps the most important setting to make! Without checking this and without changing the purging options Agent will keep a copy of the messages that contain the files you download and can add up to 100's of Gigabytes and consume your hard drive).

Later in the day, I realized AGENT had consumed almost 30 GB of my 35 GB drive and I've been frantically trying to identify the folder AGENT downloaded the message header/files ever since. When I open my C Drive and show "hidden files and folders" in addition to "sytem files" I can't find a single file using even 1.0 Gigs of info. Indeed, the total space occupied by all C drive file folders doesn't seem to comprise more than 4 to 5 GB.

Where does Agent store its files then if not on my C drive? Or more accurately, why the hell can't Windows XP PRO (my O/S) detect the location where Agent saves them?

I even tried to uninstalling Agent and re-installing it and have had no success in clearing my hard drive.

PLEASE HELP. ANy assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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[VIPER_1069]

from the help /faq at forte agents web site ..

My database is huge! (or I get a "DAT file full"error.) How to I fix this?

This has nothing to do with the amount of free space or memory on your system. The dat files themselves in Agent 1.92 have a size limit of 4 gigabytes each (in older versions it's 2 gigabytes).

Go to Group | Default Properties | What To Purge and set Agent's purging options to something more aggressive than they are now. Agent ships with a default purging time of 30 days. 7 days is more than sufficient for most people. And unless you frequently go back and re-read or reference older posts, you should be fine with a purge time of only 2 or 3 days.

And don't forget to also make sure Agent is compacting the database files, in Group | Default Properties | When To Purge. This is what will actually free the space. You should change this, too, to something more aggressive than the default value of 20%. To maintain minimum disk usage, set this to 1%.

Purging only marks the messages for deletion. Compaction is what actually removes them from the database. You should also know that Agent needs at least as much free space on the drive as your largest data file in order to compact the database. With modern hard drives starting at 40 gigabytes, this shouldn't be a problem.

If you view binary groups, and you have Agent configured to save the binaries in the message, your .dat files can grow quite large even with very aggressive purging and compacting. You might then want to configure Agent to not save the binary in the message by looking under Group | Default Properties | Receive Files, and checking "After saving an attachment, remove it from the message". Press F1 (Help) at this point to read up on the various attachment handling options located on this tab.

If you get this error when deleting messages or moving them to the trash folder, then it's likely that it's your Trash folder that's full. Reconfigure your trash folder to keep deleted items for a shorter amount of time via Options | General Preferences | Trash Folder: "Do not remove messages put in the trash folder less than [ ] days ago", then manually empty the trash via the Group | Empty Trash command.

hope this helps

btw Mickey Sabbath PLEASE ..also note one post in the right area will usually SUFFICE AN ANSWER

your other 2 posts of the same question were removed

 

[Mickey Sabbath]

Thanks

sorry about the additional posts. I assumed you needed to post in each of the relevant categories.

 

[VIPER_1069]

@ Mickey Sabbath not a problem and welcome to the forum

like i said bud one post is enough to get a response

did the above information help you at all !?

 

[LTR12101B]

If you delete (or time-purge) the message, then deleting the attachment is irrelevant. As well as setting a purge time, you should also set to compact on exit, if more than x% will be recovered - I'd say 20% is reasonable, maybe a bit more.

If working with binary groups, better to handle those with Binary News Reaper (BNR2) / Binary News Reader (BNR1) - freeware, and downloads to disk files directly, instead of holding in an encoded form that's bigger.