[turc1656]

Entirely agree about the lack of efficiency. No question about that.

However, in my personal experience, I have seen no issues downloading old data from any binary group. At least not with the provider I have. In fact, just this past week I obtained something sizable (several GBs) with no damaged parts so didn't even need the parchive recovery files at all. This has always been my experience. I've never seen anything like the pruning you are talking about. That sounds more like an issue with your specific provider to me.