User Manual

Attachment Joiner


The Attachment joiner is a tool to allow you to download attachments that are spread over posts in a newsgroup if they are too large. The simplest way to perform this task is to load the newsgroup with the attachment you want to combine, and performing the following tasks:
  1. Open a Post Combiner window from the File menu
  2. Holding down Control, select any of the component posts that make up the article
  3. Drag the post from the thread view to the post combiner window
  4. In the Attachment Joiner, select Auto-Search from the File menu
  5. If the posts were not correctly found, drag each message from the thread view as in the second step.
  6. Use the sort option in the File menu until you are sure the messages are in the correct order
  7. Select Download to begin downloading any messages that are not already complete
  8. After all the messages are downloaded, select Combine, and wait for the decoder to finish
  9. Finally, you may select Save to save the decoded attachment to disk
Note: The combined messages are deleted and marked as having been combined, to save memory.

You may also remove posts that you do not want to be combined from the Remove Selected Item command in the Edit menu, and view additional information about each post by right-clicking on the column titles and selecting which information you want to see (along with changing the positions and sizes of columns)


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