From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79653 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:27:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87hb5ir3ej.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87ippy3atg.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313429281 13751 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2011 17:28:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: John Sullivan Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27947@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 15 19:27:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0x8-0004E6-GE for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:27:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0wu-0002t0-QE; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0wt-0002sh-GG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0ws-0005WQ-7w for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:27:39 -0500 Original-Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0wq-0004zs-JM for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:27:36 +0200 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07392219E0; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:27:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:27:35 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=owMY++B2qirZzaYmSnoZdOiKMgE=; b=IxXjmfFl4dNCQHgmcLvBe3wB+0tT iqttMgFrgpq1tWNmY2WiHFAf+p0q9DQibt+nafGrGq1Kg5WtFp8xP0uwD0U4pZX3 dSConWaiVs2FKOMYORESbIlOWJZ3xUvJWXAsycfXRWDRcugdsDX+pUlqnz+nPesg 2eIep/CNMplfCcc= X-Sasl-enc: Yt9+mTGFhZ85diCzpRwAU6KqsUhl7PAvAobxCgdnmay2 1313429254 Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (91-67-169-145-dynip.superkabel.de [91.67.169.145]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3462345ED3C; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:27:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87ippy3atg.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> (John Sullivan's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:21:15 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79653 Archived-At: John Sullivan 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 -- Sent from my Emacs