Invalid Page Format

[JRouche]

Allrighty, that fixed the problem with PGO dumpin, but now my computer is ugly >:(

My wife used the computer this morning and says "why is the computer grey", I said "it's broke" like I always say when I'm muckkin with it.

Dunno, sounds like a programming problem to fix. Like I said I did not apply any service pak to this install. Plain Jane, or Bill whatever, Xp, it's is not especially new, 2002.

Thanks, JRouche.

[Wilson Logan]

JR,

XP is probably the largest platform for PGO. I've had one other person apart from yourself experience this problem on a plain vanilla XP system. I haven't been able to duplicate it on my machine & neither has the developer. This leads me to believe that there's something very specific about your setup thats causing this.  

I will have a look in developer forums to see if I can get an idea of what might be happening.

Cheers,

Wilson.

[groggu]

Hi I just started using this great program as well.  

I've got a group I'm part of that has over 80K messages and is full of industry specific knowledge. Since searching this knowedgebase is a pain in the rear, I'm overjoyed to find this great application.

Blissfully unaware of the problems listed in this forum, I fired PG Online and was able to d/l about 58147 of group's messages last night before Yahoo locked me out for 12 hrs.  I think I could have gotten more of the message down before being locked up, but, I stated to get the infamous "Invalid Page" message.

I've read up on it now in the BBS, and I thought to myself, "self, your a software engineer, maybe you can lend a had and try to figure out what's going wrong."

So here's some more debugging clues.

1) I kept the same Yahoo login profile and started a new database, thinking it might be Access related.  This had no effect, still got invalid message.

2) Tried skipping forward 10K messages at a time.  This had no effect, still got invalid message.

3) Logged in with my wife's Yahoo profile (she has access to the same group) and wah-lah! I able to download messages again starting at the point where my login was failing.

Is there someway that Yahoo or a forum admin can disallow a specific user from getting to the Yahoo forums using PG Offlines method?

Just trying to help!

GregC

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Greg,

Thank you for that very interesting test.

Currently there are 2 users (apart from yourself) reporting this issue. We have been trying to pin it down but neither I nor my developer experience this problem, which makes it hard to test :(

I am *very* surprised that you were able to download again merely by switching ID's. I know that Yahoo can block downloading based on IP addresses but if you're getting some groups & not others then thats not whats happening.

In fact, I'm sure I asked at least one of the guys having this trouble to try a different ID as a test & it didn't help then. I will ask them to try it again.

Anyway, thanks very much for using your initiative.

BTW what OS are you running? Also, can you do me a favour & join PlasmaCAM_TechTalk, and then try & download some messages with your ID & then your wifes?

Thanks,

Wilson.

[japrenticeuk]

It looks as though there is another Yahoo! change. I cannot get past authorisation when using PG Offline. I the get "Invalid Page Format" error. Same for several groups. None of mine will work

John Prentice

[ginahoy]

Yup. Same here.

For those who read this message before my edit:
My original comment that page error only happens with "caching on" was incorrect.  I just tested it several more times and I received invalid page error with caching off. Afterwards, I did a successful download with caching on!! After that, it failed in both cases. So the problem is somehow intermittant. Eee-gads!

David

[Reikidragon]

Try this fix:

http://pgoffline.com/forum/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=364


It works for me I just tested it again.

Alex