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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: can I remove the .marks files?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:32:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppvzux74.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo7ngysk.fsf@jidanni.org>

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:32:27 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: 

j> I found some apparently unused .marks files from perhaps an earlier
j> version of gnus. Can I remove them?
j> $ find Mail -name .marks -ls
j> 156306    8 -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  jidanni      6070 Mar 23  2012 Mail/mail/misc/.marks
j> 156412    4 -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  jidanni       809 Mar 19  2012 Mail/mail/debianbugs/.marks
j> 156414    4 -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  jidanni         9 Nov 22  2009 Mail/mail/.marks
j> 156419    4 -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  jidanni         9 Nov 29  2009 Mail/drafts/.marks
j> 158000    4 -rw-r--r--   1 jidanni  jidanni         9 Nov 27  2009 Mail/debianbugs/.marks
j> Also I see
j> (apropos (quote ("nnml-marks-is-evil")) nil)
j> shows something but that is all I know.

Just based on what you show, if you've modified article marks in those
groups since the date shown and the .marks haven't changed, I'd guess
it's safe to remove them.  But make a backup just in case.

Ted




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2013-06-03 12:32 jidanni
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