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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: could a large (2.4Mb) .newsrc.eld file slow things down
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:58:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnijalyj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h79nri7n.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

Hi Uwe,

well, it slows down the startup of Gnus but contains a gazillion of data
you wouldn't want to miss like your topics, what articles you've read &
marked, scores, ad-hoc written group parameters, etc.

> More importantly, can or should I clean a large .newsrc.eld file?

No, not unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing and your first
name is either Lars or Eric. ;-)

Bye,
Tassilo


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-28 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-28 15:30 Uwe Brauer
2022-01-28 15:58 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2022-01-28 17:08   ` Uwe Brauer
2022-01-28 17:19     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-01-31 13:22   ` Eric S Fraga
2022-01-28 18:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-01-28 21:03   ` Uwe Brauer
2022-01-28 21:35     ` Andreas Schwab

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