The previous suggestion did not work, but I did get an answer:
1. Open Windows Live Mail
2. Go to "Newsgroups"
3. Click on the newsgroup to highlight it
4. Click on "Tools"
5. Click on "Get next 1000 headers" (NOTE: the number 1,000 is set as I
described in my original post, the default is 300)
6. Repeat step 5 until Windows Live Mail downloads all the messages
BTW: If anyone with any influence with future updates reads this:
Discovery of how to acheive what I needed is terrible:
1. There should be no hard-coded limit (why?)
2. There should be a simple context menu option when a newsgroup is
highlighted to "Download all messages"
"John Inzer" wrote:
Quote:
> Trevor W wrote: Quote:
> > I am really getting frustrated. Live Mail reports: there are 9057
> > messages not downloaded for a particular newgroup. I selected ALL
> > MESSAGES for synchronization and it limits it to 300. So, I find the
> > setup page and someone decided that nobody needs access to more than
> > 1,000 - unless there is something I am misunderstanding because I
> > change this:
> >
> > Tools>Options>Read>Get '1,000' headers at a time
> >
> > That seems to be a hard-coded limit for retreiving old messages. Why?
> > Who decided that? Am I wrong? I NEED all 9057, not 1,000!!
> >
> > Why do I need them all?
> >
> > I am a support user of the newsgroup and support other users - they
> > often refer to or need access to the "old" messages. A newsreader
> > that is uncapable of retreiving all messages is simply worthless to
> > me for obvious reasons, the messages not downloaded are completely
> > inaccessible.
> >
> > I am hoping that my frustration is unwarranted and that there is some
> > setup option - somewhere that will allow me to download - All - the
> > actual messages and not have some arbitrary limit hard-coded into the
> > product restrict me.
> >
> > Please... PLEASE... tell me there is away to get Live Mail to
> > download all messages for a newsgroup????
> >
> > TIA
> ==================================
> Try the following...
>
> Select a newsgroup and go to...
> Tools / Synchronize newsgroup
>
> You may have to select it more than
> once to make the screen appear that
> allows you to choose:
>
> Get the following items / All messages / OK
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Digital Media MVP
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
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