It's been quite some time since I used BB and the binaries. I had to install everything new and make upgrades. I am using Pro version 1.96 Build 568 and Astraweb for my server.
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if I just forgot how to use BB all together. The problem "I think" I'm having is with the downloading of headers with a new alt.binaries.*
For example, I wanted to get some Battlestar Galactica episodes. I did a search on the web for what binaries I could find them on and came up with "alt.binaries.tv". This was just one of them.
I put all my info in the advanced section and placed a * on the search function. The starting point is clicked for ALL. I name my new search to "TV" and I click OK.
Everything starts up fine and the headers start downloading lightning fast. The problem is that it keeps going and going and going etc....
I was over 17 million headers after 2 hours and I finally gave up. I hit the STOP button and started all over again. This time under the search function I put "battlestar galactica" (no quotes).
I restarted the search and it started dling headers. I went out with my friends for a while and 3 hours later I come home and it's still downloading headers. The count was over 23 million.
Am I doing something wrong here? Am I supposed to wait until ALL the headers finish downloading? If so, how many hours does a huge binary like TV or TVSERIES take to dl? Is there any way around downloading every single header before I can see the darn things?
I am used to dling from small binaries with 50,000 to 100,000 headers. It usually takes about 2 minutes to load all the headers when searching a brand new binary.
Thanks for any help with this :)