From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35608 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Swainson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Just Deleted all my mails - How? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 14:51:30 +0100 (IST) Message-ID: <986305890.3ac9d5621bc4b@webmail.ipeng.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171326 4050 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:35:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:35:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19121 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2001 13:51:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19116 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2001 13:51:58 -0000 Original-Received: from www.ipengineering.com (HELO alpha.ipeng.com) (193.120.211.29) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Apr 2001 13:51:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11223 invoked by uid 545); 3 Apr 2001 13:51:30 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 161.242.10.132 Original-Lines: 61 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35608 Hi All, Bit peeved, but I'm sure this is down to my complete misunderstanding of Gnus - scary thing is that it let me be so destructive: I have an nnml group called 'Misc' which contains all my mail which doesn't fit into my other categories, defined thusly: (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "Inbox")) (setq nnmail-split-methods '( ;:Emacs Groups ("Misc" "") ) ) The group became rather full, as it does every month, so I decided to archive it. What I normally do is tar and gzip up all the mails in the misc folder, and move them to another disk, all manually outside of Gnus. Problem is, Gnus totals don't get updated - it still thinks there is 1600 or whatever mails in the group. (I've posted about this before, as have others). This time I thought I'd try to do it in Gnus. And I obviously understand Gnus even less than I thought, as I managed to delete all the mails rather than archive them. I'm a bit gutted about this. This is what I did: I created (in my .gnus) a secondary select method thusly: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '( (nnfolder "Archive"))) Thinking that like my 'sent' nnfolder group, it would create me a file group, with multiple mails per file. I then went into my Misc group, and using the menu, process-marked all the mails. I then used B m to move them (or so I thought) to my new group. Pressing Tab at the prompt, I got a list of my current groups plus a load of new groups called nnfolder+Archive:xxxx, for every nnml group, 'xxxx' being the name of the existing nnml group. I selected nnfolder+Archive:Misc and after a lot of disk activity, the mails seemed to be duly moved. I then subscribed to the nnfolder+Archive:Misc group, and selected it. The processor went to 100% (and stayed like that for ages), so I C-g 'd it. I then exited Gnus, and restarted, then re-selected the nnfolder+Archive:Misc and alas, it is empty. My misc group is also empty, and the mails seem to have disappeared from the disk. What should I have done to archive these mails properly, and why did all the mails get deleted instead of moved? Cheers, Ian -- fortune is silent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Made in Ireland~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Swainson Kia Ora! ian@qui-oui.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~http://www.qui-oui.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~