Disappearing groups

Disappearing groups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

I've had some scary reports on people losing most of the groups from
.newsrc.eld, so it would be nice if you could do this test case.

1)  Copy .newsrc.eld to a safe place
2)  Do some group sorting commands -- `G S a' etc.
3)  `s' to save the .newsrc.eld file
4)  Examine if the .newsrc.eld file has shrunk dramatically
5)  If this is the case, mail me the old .newsrc.eld file

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Re: Disappearing groups

[William M. Perry]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've had some scary reports on people losing most of the groups from
> .newsrc.eld, so it would be nice if you could do this test case.
> 
> 1)  Copy .newsrc.eld to a safe place
> 2)  Do some group sorting commands -- `G S a' etc.
> 3)  `s' to save the .newsrc.eld file
> 4)  Examine if the .newsrc.eld file has shrunk dramatically
> 5)  If this is the case, mail me the old .newsrc.eld file

  This worked fine for me, with quite a few newsgroups, and 12 or 15 mail
groups.

-Bill P.

Re: Disappearing groups

[Jan Vroonhof]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've had some scary reports on people losing most of the groups from
> .newsrc.eld, so it would be nice if you could do this test case.
> 

Gnus v5.4.37

No drastic changes in .eld size with your test case here (Gnus didn't
consider the resorted buffer als changed, so I had to do some reading
first).

Jan

disappearing groups

[Eric Hendrickson]

I have noticed this happen for a long time, but it just happened in a
very clear set of circumstances, hence this message.

After reading a few groups, such that the count in the *Groups* buffer
for each of those groups was ``0'', I did a ``sort'' by name on my
*Groups* buffer.  This resulted in all the groups that I had read
today, in which Gnus considered to have 0 unread articles, to be
marked ``U'' and disappear from my *Groups* buffer.  I had to ``u''
each of them to get them to reappear (still marked ``U'') and then u
each of them again (to remove the ``U'' mark).

Am I doing something wrong or stupid?  :)

Thanks,
		Eric
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