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Old 12th July 2009
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...and came up with several incomplete compilings (let it run overnight...).
It is unclear whether you are stating that downloading the ports tree failed or whether you were actually trying to build all applications. In either event, it would be beneficial to become conversant with the information found in Section 15 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html

Studying the ports(7) manpage would also be very useful.

In general (& this is a prominent statement made in Section 15.1...), there is little need to build packages manually from the ports tree. Many packages are already available at the mirrors. Many newcomers to OpenBSD believe that building packages are preferred when in fact there is no difference between manually building packages & using what is already available unless the makefiles themselves are altered.
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I also found out that I don't have a "Xenacaro" Directory and my xobj Directory is empty.
Correct. Source for the following:
  • the operating system
  • ports
  • Xenocara
...are not installed by default. This is covered in Section 5.3 - 5.5 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld
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(haven't RTFM completely -sorry)
You are only cheating yourself. You will save yourself significant time & aggravation now if you take the time to study this document. More than merely an FAQ, this is the single best (& only official) how-to document which describes the whole of OpenBSD.
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