From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80830 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Syncing Gnus Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:51:55 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325973143 440 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2012 21:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 21:52:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29112=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jan 07 22:52:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjeBV-0000sD-EH for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:52:17 +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 1RjeBU-0007yy-Li for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:52:16 -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 1RjeBS-0007yp-Bg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:52:14 -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 1RjeBQ-0003OS-Vw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:52:13 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RjeBO-0006qM-Vb for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:52:10 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjeBN-0000oo-IC for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:52:09 +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 ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:52:09 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:52:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ccB4E47HWdrpI5RcwuFbPpx3p0Y= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80830 Archived-At: This comes up everys now and again and I thought maybe time again. Who has recently set up gnus so its data is easily synced. There are a plethora of location values some I think might overlap - I'm not sure - I just know I keep finding News and Mail dirs in in my home dir every now and again ;). Ideally there would be ONE variable to set and all archives, news and mail and book marks and everything would go under there so only that dir would by synced. It would include .newsrc* files too. In particular what is gnus-home-directory? ,---- | Directory variable that specifies the "home" directory. | All other Gnus file and directory variables are initialized from this variable. `---- What does "home" here mean? Does this refer to Mail/News or where gnus finds it code or both? Should it not be enough to ONLY set this and the rest follow on? Maybe I'm overthinking or panicking a little. All I want is ALL gnus "runtime"* type data to sit under ONE directory. How is this best achieved? * :dribble files, newsrc file, killfiles, group subscriptions, articles, caches etc etc etc