From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Moving News and Mail
Date: 18 Jan 2000 18:51:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kpya9ni7zv.fsf@utip202.cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "16 Jan 2000 18:43:02 -0800"
On 16 Jan 2000 18:43:02 -0800 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> But what will happen when I redo those Variables and start writing to
> the new directories containing thousands of old messages. Will gnus
> just continue without a stutter or will there be a sort of start over
> of some kind? Is there some kind of proceedure I need to follow?
I've just moved all my old mail directories to a new location, changed the
required variables (nnfolder-directory and nnml-directory), and copied the
.newsrc.eld file to my new home directory, and it all worked without problem.
> Webglimpse will be writing files in the gnus directories too.
> .glimpse* files and other control files etc. They can be contained
> inside a subdirectory for neatness, but will these directories bother
> the unborn Oort inside of pgnus?
>From personal experience I can tell that gnus believes all/most stuff inside a
mail folder to be mail. If you create new files or directories, gnus may think
it is a new group or something. I found out the hard way when I tried to store
both nnfolder and nnml files in a single directory. Ouch! I'm not sure whether
certain filenames (e.g. starting with a dot) are ignored.
Jaap-Henk
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