From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61135 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Martinelli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: move to new hd gnus problems Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129062629 14584 80.91.229.2 (11 Oct 2005 20:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9668@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 11 22:30:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPQkk-0003fo-VU for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:29:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EPQkc-0003dI-00; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EPQee-0003cs-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EPQea-0007Ie-KA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EPQeZ-0000Qj-00 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:23:15 +0200 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EPQcS-0000pA-Bf for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:21:04 +0200 Original-Received: from S0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net ([24.77.72.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:21:04 +0200 Original-Received: from pymartinelli by S0106001111ddbc6e.wp.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:21:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.77.72.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux 2.6.12; X11; i686; en_GB, en_US) KHTML/3.4.2 (like Gecko) (Debian package 4:3.4.2-4)) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61135 Archived-At: I've successfully moved all my home directory to a new hard drive, except for Gnus. Part of the problem probably stems from the ill-conceived procedure I used in the middle of an emergency yesterday. I had upgraded my hard drive where my home directory was to a larger one (hdb1). This hard drive mounts on /home in another hard drive where the root directory is (hda1). So I proceeded by first copying all the contents of the old hard drive to /usr/local/ in hda1. I then removed the old hard drive, installed and mounted the new one in the same manner as the old one, and copied everything from hda1 back to the newly installed hdb1. Everything I've checked so far works as before, but Gnus is showing only newly arrived mail and old mail is not even shown. All my news and mail groups are there, and everything is intact in the newsgroups. It's only the old mail that doesn't seem to be read. I've also checked that all the mark files are being completely deleted at Gnus startup, although the messages themselves are untouched in their original places. These are the relevant parts of ~/.gnus.el: (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnmaildir "" (directory "~/News/.nnmaildir") (get-new-mail t))) (setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/mail/"))) and, as always, I have fetchmail fetch all my mail and put it in the indicated spool file. Any ideas to help me get back my old mail, marks and scores would be very much appreciated! Paul