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From: "David Kågedal" <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: Duplicate article numbers in nnfolder file
Date: 09 Mar 1997 01:25:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7x209pj4h4.fsf@abakus.rydnet.lysator.liu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Graham Murray's message of 08 Mar 1997 22:42:55 +0000

Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On wanting to review an email I had sent a few days ago, I went into
> the archive:misc-mail 'group' to gnus Gccs mail, but I could not see
> the mail.  As I knew I had sent the mail, I greped the file in my home
> directory and found the email there, I noticed that there were three
> articles stored with the same article number (as shown in the Xref and
> X-Gnus-Article-Number headers). I then looked at the misc-news file
> and found that this suffers the same problem - but worse.  The 1st
> article to use the number which was duplicated was 5.4.16, the
> articles were added with the same number by versions .17 and .23. 
> 
> Is there any way that I can repair the file to correct the article
> numbers, or should I manually edit the article numbers to make them
> unique and edit the active file in the archive directory?

Simply remove the Gnus-Article-Number header lines (along with the
Xref line). Then Gnus will rediscover the articles and give them new
numbers.


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1997-03-08 22:42 Graham Murray
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