Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data

Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data

[John Sullivan]

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

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Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data

[Tassilo Horn]

John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:

> 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?

Not sure, but doesn't C-/ (gnus-undo) undo that (and most other things)?

Bye,
Tassilo
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Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data

[John Sullivan]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> Not sure, but doesn't C-/ (gnus-undo) undo that (and most other things)?
>

Yes, it probably would have, had I remembered that :(.

-john

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Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data

[jidanni]

Sounds like me. I just hit SW in the *Group* buffer
  S w (translated from S W) runs the command gnus-group-kill-region,
thinking I was in the *Summary* buffer.

Fortunately
  The killed newsgroups can be yanked by using C-y.

Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> writes:

> 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).

Oops.  I've now added a y-or-n to that command.

Backup versions of .newsrc.eld should have the data, though.

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