From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9866 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Lamoureux Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: rebuilding .overview Date: 10 Feb 1997 12:33:11 -0500 Message-ID: <6iv3ev4r2g8.fsf@erpland.engin.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149827 21026 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA26737 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:54:05 -0800 Original-Received: from erpland.engin.umich.edu (lamour@erpland.engin.umich.edu [141.213.30.72]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:33:21 +0100 Original-Received: (lamour@localhost) by erpland.engin.umich.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) id MAA13795; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:33:14 -0500 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Original-Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9866 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9866 Hmmm, hard to call this a bug, but easy to say that it didn't work like I expected. I'm still using the XEmacs version of gnus, and yesterday, the filesystem that my homedir is on flaked and a large chunk of a .overview file got corrupted (overwritten with nulls). I spent quite a bit of time looking at the FAQ, help, and Info docs trying to figure out how to rebuild it. The best I could come up with was M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases (which is probably overkill for what I needed...is there a better way), and it was hard to find the documentation for it even though I knew (from reading this list) that such a beast existed. Is there an error recovery section of the docs that I missed? Is there a better way to just regenerate the .overview file for one group? Also, after running the above function all of the new messages (there were 105 new messages, which is how I noticed there was a problem in the first place), all of the messages that were added back into the .overview file were given a mark of read instead of unread. I had to enter the group with C-u Ret to see them. Is that the best default mark to have for such an operation? Has this process been changed in the newer versions? Is it better documented now? BTW, just the other day I had another group that didn't show up in the topic listing until the second message showed up. I had reported this bug a while ago, but then couldn't reproduce it. I just did. :-/ fyi, Michael