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Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:

>     >> When I try to enter the cvs gnus that I upped this afternoon, I
>     >> get:
>     >> 
>     >> Signaling: (file-error "Creating directory" "file exists"
>     >> "/home/lconrad/Mail/world/old")
>
>     Simon> The directory exists, right?
>
> No.  I was going to post a followup.  That directory is (was) a link to a
> directory that used to exist before I rearranged all my partitions.
> It exists now, and I can use the CVS gnus.  Which is good because it
> does several good things that the latest ognus release doesn't.  But
> I'm probably not the only person in the world who rearranges
> partitions and doesn't fix all the links to the old partitions.  And
> gnus never complained about this before today.

So the error message was correct?

Hm, what would Gnus do other than to complain?  As I see it, the
directory where a nnml group lives must exist in order to write things
into it.  If it doesn't exist, Gnus tries to create it.  I suspect the
reason you haven't received the error message before is that you
didn't write to the group (i.e. deleted or inserted articles).  Would
that be right?

I don't think there's a bug here.