I get a bunch of “Decoding Initialization Failure Messages”. Whats happening?
The number one cause of this problem is insufficient disk space. I know, I really need to spiff up the handling of this to give you some informative error messages and have a more graceful shutdown. I will probably be doing this in the future. In the meantime, if you get some Decoding Initialization Failure messages, then the first thing you should do is verify that all of your download drives have plenty of free disk space. This message is actually given whenever Newsbot cannot create a file. It may be due to some other reason than disk space, although I have not seen many exceptions. Possibilities could be writing to a read-only media (i.e. CD-ROM), writing to a network drive you don’t have access to, writing to a drive that doesn’t exist, overwriting an existing read-only or system file, or some other circumstance that causes Windows to not want to create the file. It is also possible to generate this message by writing to the root directory of a hard drive. Dos/Windows does place l
