From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: moving nntp servers
Date: 27 Oct 1999 21:06:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iu3sguok.fsf@main.wgaf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:41:49 +0200"
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Groъjohann) writes:
> Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> writes:
> > 1. Can I not lose my Topics layout? Is it possible to retain
> > newsgroups' names in their old Topics, albeit with wrong indices?
>
> Hm. What happens if you say M-x
> gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups RET, then change the NNTP
> server? Make a backup copy of your .newsrc.eld file, first.
Hi! Just to follow up... When I did
gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups, and then changed
gnus-select-method to my new nntp server name, gnus read the old
groups off the new server w/o problems.
The only problem was that gnus used to save its data into
.newsrc-news1.on.sympatico.ca.eld (corresponds to my previous news
server), and when I changed it to the new one, on exit it still saved
into the old file.
On next start, gnus didn't read the old
.newsrc-news1.on.sympatico.ca.eld, but loaded .newsrc.eld instead. I
thus lost all of my topics, susbscribed groups names etc. However,
renaming .newsrc-news1.on.sympatico.ca.eld into .newsrc.eld solved
even that.
After that little playing, I must admit that the transition was rather
painless. Cheers to that!
Thanks,
--
Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org
"'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who
loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-25 2:22 Arcady Genkin
1999-10-25 7:41 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-10-25 7:49 ` Arcady Genkin
1999-10-25 8:53 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-10-28 1:06 ` Arcady Genkin [this message]
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