Re: Removing gaps by moving articles from group x to group x doesn't work

[Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>]

Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:

| Are you sure you've moved *all* the articles?  Including dormant,
| read, etc?  Enter the group with - RET (that's a minus, followed by
| return), then M P a (`gnus-uu-mark-all') and B m.

Yes, I did this.

| If that doesn't work, create a scratch group, move all the articles
| to it, then leave and re-enter the original group.  Re-entry will

I did this.  Now the _scratch group_ says it has 598 articles.
Also, the original group has no articles (I even checked the
directory), but now it says it has something like 8516 articles.
If I do 'G E', I see

("lists.cmucl.imp" 3
 ((1 . 9249)))

If I go and edit 1 . 9249 to 1 . 1, which I saw one empty group
had, and hit 'C-c C-c' and 'g', the group suddenly says in the
group buffer it has 8xxx articles.  If I do 'G E' again, I see 

("lists.cmucl.imp" 3
 ((1 . 9249)))

again, so my editing was "erased" somehow.  I'm not going to move
the articles from the scratch group back to the original group
until I figure what's going on here --- after all, shouldn't the
scratch group be ok too so that moving those articles to the
original group doesn't buy me anything in this sense?

-- 
Hannu