[Pan-users] New file posting feature, broken? Misunderstood?

[Duncan]

I just tested the new file-posting functionality, and for each one I 
added to the queue, when I actually posted my message, I got an error 
saying something about not being able to find that file in the cache.

??

Why would it be looking in the cache for files I'm posting?  I didn't 
tell it to create nzbs or whatever, only to post the files, using the 
file browser to point them out on my system.  They appeared correctly in 
the file-queue tab, but errors about them not appearing in the cache 
simply don't make sense to me, as there's no reason I can think of why 
they /would/ be in the cache, at least /pan's/ cache.  (They should be in 
the kernel's filesystem cache, since I just read them and I've plenty of 
memory and didn't do anything that would have kicked them out of it.)

Assuming the posted files are somehow supposed to appear in the cache, 
what is the mechanism for them getting there?  The ones I tried were 
files from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory, readable to my user but on 
a different partition than $HOME.  Might that be why they couldn't appear 
in the cache?

It hasn't been long enough to see whether the text post I attached them 
to appeared on the server or not.  With all those local errors, should 
it, or does it get canceled as well in that case?

Do the queued files appear as separate followup posts, or attached to the 
text post itself (assuming they're small enough to do so), or as separate 
posts without the reference header linking them to the original, or...?

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