From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4070 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail groups: converting O's (ancient articles) Date: 22 Nov 1995 10:47:00 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: <9511221517.AA06433@cheux.ecs.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144871 28421 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:14:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA06323 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 12:20:46 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 19:47:06 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA05593; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 10:47:02 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu's message of 22 Nov 1995 07:17:25 -0800 Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4070 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4070 >>>>> "Jack" == Jack Vinson writes: Jack> Is there an easy way to go through a group and covert all Jack> articles marked as ancient (O) to either unmarked to to Jack> ticked? I've given up on Sgnus 0.14 for now and went back Jack> to 0.12 and lost all my process marks. I'd like to get them Jack> back. This also included expunged articles in mail groups Jack> that didn't get marked for expiration. (I think this has Jack> been fixed, though.) Jack> The hard way is to do C-u Enter and read all available Jack> articles. Wouldn't the quick way be to get into the group parameters (G E) and set them by hand? You ought to be able to get the article numbers from the backup .newsrc.eld file. If the caching done by Gnus defeats this, restart gnus immediately after making the changes or just edit the .newsrc.eld file directly. -- steve@miranova.com baur