Re: Please help me renumber articles !

["St. Suika Fenderson Roberts" <wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>]

David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU> writes:
> If you want all of the numbers back to 1, you can go into the
> group with `C-u SPC', turn off threading with `T T', sort the articles
> in a reasonable order `C-c C-s C-n' then using `C-u ### B m' refile
> everything into a _new_ group (where ### is large enough to cover all of
> the articles).  Then you can go and rename & remove the original group,
> and then rename the new group to the old name.

> 	If you just want the group compacted, but not starting at
> article number 1, you can just refile into the same group rather than
> a new one.

The problem with both of these is that this looses all of the marks one
may have.  If one is insanely patient one can pull up ones .newsrc.eld
and the folder/directory in buffers, then re-number the marks/mail by
hand as one goes along, although one will then need to modify the active
file and overview files when one is done.

> Anyone have better thoughts on this?  Considering how slow total-expire
> currently gets with groups with lots of holes, maybe a safe compaction
> routine should be added to Gnus itself.

I think that would be a wonderfull idea.  I would probably have it just
find the lowest unused article number, move the lowest higher numbered
article to that number, fix marks, modify the overview file, the active
file if it needs it, repeat.  I've contemplated doing it by hand to a
couple of my folders . . .

	Suika
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