From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81374 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sharing setup between different computers? Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:22:28 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <8v1upyb44r.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: <874nuumrh9.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329182650 14041 80.91.229.3 (14 Feb 2012 01:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:24:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29654@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 14 02:24:10 2012 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 1Rx77n-0007SL-0m for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:24:07 +0100 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 1Rx76V-00071e-25; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:22:47 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx76T-00071V-SO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:22:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx76Q-0001ds-6C for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:22:45 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx76O-0007C3-3O for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:22:40 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx76N-0006K4-Vn for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:22:39 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:22:39 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:22:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v6XSAwGj8TL1cmvTbpgGLbj3CXc= X-Spam-Score: 0.2 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.3.1 2010-03-16) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0000 Ham tokens: 0.000-1686--8959h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-1440--7654h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus, 0.000-1359--7223h-0s--0d--H*u:linux, 0.000-1359--7223h-0s--0d--H*UA:linux, 0.000-1325--7040h-0s--0d--H*UA:gnu Spam tokens: 0.935-8218--5085h-75525s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.935-8218--5085h-75525s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.931-7589--5224h-72746s--0d--HTo:D*gnus.org, 0.924-7503--6111h-77293s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-Internal:quimby.gnus.org, 0.924-7503--6111h-77293s--0d--H*RT:80.91.231.51 Autolearn status: no 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (rileyrg[at]gmail.com) 0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is CUSTOM_MED -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain 1.2 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used for HELO -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.9 NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED ADSP custom_med hit, and not from a mailing list List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81374 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Hello, > > I currently ply between two locations in Germany. At both locations, I > have a desktop computer and read news via Gnus. I want to transfer my > setup including which groups I have subscribed, which articles I have > read, which ones I have ticked etc, between the two locations. > > Is it safe to just copy .newsrc.eld and .newsrc (besides the gnus init > file, of course) from one computer to the other, or can this lead to > problems? Or is there maybe a better method? > > Thanks for your answers, > > Michael. > I simply keep my emacs/gnus files in dropbox. Works well. Just copying those files isnt enough afaik since gnus uses other files for things like scoring/killfiling - although that may have changed. (After figuring out how to tame where Gnus stores things of course which is covered in another thread)