New beta version

Wilson Logan · June 22, 2009, 07:22:59 PM

Hi All,

There is a new beta version incorporating the new DLL:

http://www.personalgroupware.com/groupmanager/PGOffline-3-0-076.exe

Currently adult groups do not work and a very small number of groups are reported as having an invalid page format but we are working on those.

Cheers,

Wilson.

justinpwalker · June 23, 2009, 11:08:41 AM

Hi Wilson

I have been doing some testing this afternoon and can advise the following:

Vista 32bit Ultimate / IE8

Initial install / upgrade process was flawless.

Approx 60000 messages downloaded across 40+ groups

There were a couple of issues with a couple of the groups on the initial attempt to run the download however after PGO restarted itself I was able to simply restart the Refresh download from the top and all came back in to line.

Now that all messages are up to date PGO is back to a rock solid feel.

Have also been running a number of "Get Missing Message" tasks to see how it handles old messages. Year 2002 messages to date all downloaded no problems.

Feels great to have PG Offline back Online!! Tell me the link and I'll happily send this years maintenance and next

Cheers

Justin Walker
Gold Coast
AUSTRALIA

MyNameIsScott · June 23, 2009, 10:10:39 PM

I just recommended the software to another Yahoo group member, if 3.0.076 is the one he downloads for evaluation it's a sale.

Scott

Brad · June 24, 2009, 12:53:14 AM

3.0.76 working well here. Found a glitch on some 10 year old posts that I've forwarded to Wilson, but overall it's great to have this little program working again

I had some "trash" in some of my forums because I'd used some of the hit and miss dll's that Wilson had provided (some data was better than none), so I deleted all messages back to before Yahoo threw us this curve ball, compacted the database, reset the counter under group setting, and then reloaded several months of messages. Perfection!

Happy Camper Brad

Brad · June 24, 2009, 01:17:00 AM

Wilson suggested I try the version 3.0.77 for my group that had 10 year old messages. Worked perfectly!

So, I have a fully functional program with no problems that I'm aware of.

Brad

Brad · June 24, 2009, 12:14:22 PM

I want to mention that the group I was having problem with wasn't an "adult" group. Lot's of us 67 year old kids use "Kenwood" ham equipment. :D

So, version 3.0.77 is more than the "Adult" version. :D

The Kenwood group started 10 years ago, and the early messages were formatted such that it looked like version 3.9.76 was trying to stuff the email address of the author into the "From" field, resulting in a "The field you're trying to insert data in is too small" (or something like that) error message.

73 de K5ILW

Brad
Santa Fe, NM

Wilson Logan · June 24, 2009, 02:05:30 PM

Hi Brad,

My copy of PGO (3.0.077) is IPF'ing ( I have no membership to a members only group).

Does 3.0.077 fix this for you? If not I'll need access to the group.

Cheers,

Wilson.

snoskier1 · June 26, 2009, 03:20:20 AM

Wilson,

Good work on the new verison ..... all my issues with downloading are fixed!

I know we all have this habit of complaining and whinning when things don't work.

I'll offer a big THANK YOU for all your efforts...!

$10 a year is quite reasonable for this powerful tool.

Mark

Wilson Logan · June 26, 2009, 08:28:48 AM

Hi Mark,

Glad to hear its all working for you.

I'm going to change the business model for new users. Its going to be $19.95 to buy PGO and then $10 a year.

I was thinking... what if, by some miracle, I managed to sell 5000 licences? That'd be great but eventually the money would run out and I'd be supporting 5500 people as against 500 with no income. Given the ongoing maintainance requirement for PGO there is no option but to make it a subscription service.

Obviously existing users will not be charged a subscription fee. You bought the program on the understanding that it is a flat purchase.

Cheers,

Wilson.

wundrbee · June 27, 2009, 10:50:42 PM

Speaking of existing users, i.e. me. :) I tried sending you a pm a couple of weeks ago. I have reformatted my PC and I cannot find the image that I'd made the last time I did this. How do I retrieve my registration code? PM answer is fine by me.

Tammi U.

mlivsey · June 28, 2009, 04:13:50 AM

Changing the license policy is fine and your policy for existing owners is uber cool.

As for the latest beta (3.0.77) it works fine with the adult section but I am getting timeouts that cause the product to minimize and then maximize in a stopped state with the download pane cleared. Sometimes it's after a hundred or so downloads, sometimes after thousands. Restarting the download causes everything to carry on so it's not an issue with Yahoo locking me out.

Should I trying playing with the timeout limit? My guess is that if the program minimizes on a failure and then mazimizes with a cleared download log it really doesn't know that it failed.

No matter: messages are coming down again so we'll work out the bugs.

Mike.

Quote from: Wilson Logan on June 26, 2009, 08:28:48 AM
Hi Mark,

Glad to hear its all working for you.

I'm going to change the business model for new users. Its going to be $19.95 to buy PGO and then $10 a year.

I was thinking... what if, by some miracle, I managed to sell 5000 licences? That'd be great but eventually the money would run out and I'd be supporting 5500 people as against 500 with no income. Given the ongoing maintainance requirement for PGO there is no option but to make it a subscription service.

Obviously existing users will not be charged a subscription fee. You bought the program on the understanding that it is a flat purchase.

Cheers,

Wilson.

justinpwalker · June 28, 2009, 10:04:27 AM

Hi Wilson

I, along with probably a few others, did not receive an email with the link to make a "subscription" payment. Over time email addresses change and some of our ISP's have what could be called interesting views on what they think is spam so the messages dont make it. I would really love to make that payment as I feel PGO is more than worth the minimal amount you have been asking.

If you could post a link I, and hopefully a few others, will get some funds to you!!

Cheers

Justin
Gold Coast
AUSTRALIA

Wilson Logan · June 28, 2009, 08:54:43 PM

Hi Justin,

Yes. I have about 80 emails in my inbox titled "Mail System Error - Returned Mail".

As my email list I have used everyones registration email. I could have ued the Forum email list but its chock full of spammers email addresses. And I suspect that quite a few people who have PGO registered aren't members of the forum.

If you want to make a donation you can send money to purchase (at) personalgroupware.com

I refuse nothing but blows!

Cheers,

Wilson.

Denos · July 16, 2009, 01:00:16 AM

Wilson,

Great to have PGOffline hauling in the accumulated messages at round about 400 messages a minute. It was a long illness.

Gratefully,

Denos aka Dennis

ABQ Pete · July 16, 2009, 11:34:26 PM

Hi Wilson,

Invalid page format on 15 of 21 groups that I tried to refresh today
(7/16/09). The invalid page format message occurs just after PGO
requests the high message number. After the error, PGO tries the
next group until all groups are processed. This is on version 3.0.77

Looks like we are out of business again. . .

Pete

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