From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10652 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Disappearing groups Date: 08 Apr 1997 14:51:29 -0700 Sender: wmperry@kramer.in.aventail.com Message-ID: <86pvw5w5cu.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> References: Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150486 25588 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:48:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:48:06 +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 PAA18556 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:02:53 -0700 Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 23:51:33 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 22695 invoked by uid 504); 8 Apr 1997 21:49:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22692 invoked from network); 8 Apr 1997 21:49:04 -0000 Original-Received: from newman.aventail.com (HELO newman) (root@199.238.236.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 1997 21:49:04 -0000 Original-Received: from kramer.in.aventail.com.aventail.com (wmperry@kramer [192.168.1.12]) by newman (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA23571 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:18:43 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Errors-to: wmperry@aventail.com X-Face: O~Rn;(l][/-o1sALg4A@xpE:9-"'IR[%;,,!m7 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.