From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83268 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: can I remove the .marks files? Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:32:15 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ppvzux74.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87bo7ngysk.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370529336 22819 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2013 14:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:35:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31534@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 06 16:35:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkbHk-0001i3-Rc for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:35:29 +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 1UkbHT-0004bH-NC; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:35:11 -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 1UkbHS-0004ay-Ea for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:35:10 -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 1UkbHN-0002H1-JZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UkbHM-0006mA-8W for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:35:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkbHL-0001NB-8y for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.26.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:35:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xFxVI7vbhqaiJHJLgGZZJrAFYm4= X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83268 Archived-At: 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