Re: help with corrupted files; ticked articles missing

[akb+lists.ding@mirror.to (Andrew B)]

RL <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com> writes:
> akb+lists.ding@mirror.to (Andrew B) writes:
>
>> The partition containing my home directory filled up, and I cleared
>
>> What can I do to recover my unread and ticked articles?
>> Are there any files besides .newsrc ones that I need to recover gnus
>> state?
>
> I had a similar situation - i found the 'active' file in the nnml server
> had been emptied and this seems to have caused issues opening nnml
> groups. Running `M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases' seems to have fixed it,
> but i dont know if this is good or bad advice

Thanks! This put me on the right track. I don't use nnml, but there
were files in the ~/News directory causing the problem; if I have time
I'll sort out what exactly, but meanwhile I just renamed the direcoty
contents and let gnus recreate what it needed. 

Meanwhile, if there's a wishlist, I feel like this sort of thing should
not ideally be possible; with nnimap if M-g shows me there are
1000 ticked articles and entering the group only shows 1, or if M-g
shows 124000 articles, but entering the group refuses to retrieve more
than a couple dozen, I feel like there could be some kind of internal
consistency check that at least informs the user that there's a problem,
and ideally allows for something like overwriting corrupt info in
either .newsrc.eld or ~/News with info from the imap server...