* Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data
@ 2011-08-15 16:21 John Sullivan
2011-08-15 17:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-08-18 0:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: John Sullivan @ 2011-08-15 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
I just lost all the marks on one of my main folders because my finger
slipped while hitting M-g, and I hit M-c instead. This cleared all the
marks in my group. Stupid mistake, and now it'll take me hours to
recover from it (around 15k messages).
I tried to Q quit without saving. But after re-starting gnus, I still
have no marks for that group.
Any other ways I can recover?
And... shouldn't this function ask for confirmation? It's at least as
dramatic as commands which mark all article read.
-john
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* Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data
2011-08-15 16:21 Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data John Sullivan
@ 2011-08-15 17:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-08-15 18:44 ` John Sullivan
2011-08-18 0:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Tassilo Horn @ 2011-08-15 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Sullivan; +Cc: ding
John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:
> I just lost all the marks on one of my main folders because my finger
> slipped while hitting M-g, and I hit M-c instead. This cleared all the
> marks in my group. Stupid mistake, and now it'll take me hours to
> recover from it (around 15k messages).
>
> I tried to Q quit without saving. But after re-starting gnus, I still
> have no marks for that group.
>
> Any other ways I can recover?
Not sure, but doesn't C-/ (gnus-undo) undo that (and most other things)?
Bye,
Tassilo
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* Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data
2011-08-15 17:27 ` Tassilo Horn
@ 2011-08-15 18:44 ` John Sullivan
2011-08-17 2:44 ` jidanni
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From: John Sullivan @ 2011-08-15 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:
>
>> I just lost all the marks on one of my main folders because my finger
>> slipped while hitting M-g, and I hit M-c instead. This cleared all the
>> marks in my group. Stupid mistake, and now it'll take me hours to
>> recover from it (around 15k messages).
>>
>> I tried to Q quit without saving. But after re-starting gnus, I still
>> have no marks for that group.
>>
>> Any other ways I can recover?
>
> Not sure, but doesn't C-/ (gnus-undo) undo that (and most other things)?
>
Yes, it probably would have, had I remembered that :(.
-john
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* Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data
2011-08-15 18:44 ` John Sullivan
@ 2011-08-17 2:44 ` jidanni
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From: jidanni @ 2011-08-17 2:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: john; +Cc: ding
Sounds like me. I just hit SW in the *Group* buffer
S w (translated from S W) runs the command gnus-group-kill-region,
thinking I was in the *Summary* buffer.
Fortunately
The killed newsgroups can be yanked by using C-y.
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* Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data
2011-08-15 16:21 Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data John Sullivan
2011-08-15 17:27 ` Tassilo Horn
@ 2011-08-18 0:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2011-08-18 0:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:
> I just lost all the marks on one of my main folders because my finger
> slipped while hitting M-g, and I hit M-c instead. This cleared all the
> marks in my group. Stupid mistake, and now it'll take me hours to
> recover from it (around 15k messages).
Oops. I've now added a y-or-n to that command.
Backup versions of .newsrc.eld should have the data, though.
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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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