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Subject: Re: Duplicate article numbers in nnfolder file
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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.