From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: bulk move to non-existant group
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:52:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkoqr220.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hbv2vp1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:31:22 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
EA> I seem to have just deleted all my archived sent messages from 2010 by
EA> moving them into a non-existant group. When you move one message into a
EA> non-existant group it asks if you want to create it. I marked a whole
EA> year's worth of messages and moved them. To be honest I don't remember
EA> if it prompted me to create the group or not, but the upshot is that the
EA> group wasn't created and a year's worth of sent messages disappeared.
EA> I've had a look at gnus-summary-move-article and it's about a mile
EA> long—can someone tell me if something is wrong in there? I'm not about
EA> to do any more experimentation…
I doubt you actually lost the messages. Let's do it the slow but sure
way. Go to the server buffer (`^' from the Group buffer). Hit RET on
each server, then RET on each group on that server. You'll
probably find an unsubscribed group where your messages dwell now.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-20 1:52 UTC|newest]
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2011-03-19 11:31 Eric Abrahamsen
2011-03-20 1:52 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-03-20 3:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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