From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79654 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Sullivan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Disaster with gnus-group-clear-data Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:44:51 -0400 Message-ID: <87ty9ia50c.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> References: <87ippy3atg.fsf@myles.home.wjsullivan.net> <87hb5ir3ej.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313435357 21487 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2011 19:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:09:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27948@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 15 21:09:11 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 1Qt2X8-0004wr-O4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:09:11 +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 1Qt2WP-0003He-DO; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:08:25 -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 1Qt2WM-0003HG-6E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:08:22 -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 1Qt2WK-0008TD-AU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:08:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt2WI-0007TL-8i for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:08:18 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt2WF-0004Nr-Tr for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:08:15 +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 21:08:15 +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 21:08:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 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:LMaZP0Po7rb8xCUMFlhqU/Czd9U= X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79654 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > John Sullivan 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 -- Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at .