From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79652 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Sullivan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:21:15 -0400 Message-ID: <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 1313428140 6153 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2011 17:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:09:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27946@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 15 19:08:56 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 1Qt0em-0008Vx-0a for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:08:56 +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 1Qt0eC-0002m3-QV; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:08:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0eA-0002lj-Uo for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:08:18 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0e9-00081o-24 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:08:18 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0e7-0004Yy-2C for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:08:15 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0e5-00081g-Sl for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:08:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 74-94-156-210-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.94.156.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:08:13 +0200 Original-Received: from john by 74-94-156-210-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:08:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74-94-156-210-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I6xtsOqbU4pMbNZZhwR/3yTLjlc= X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79652 Archived-At: 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 -- Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at .