Re: Moving News and Mail

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:

> 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.

Good to hear ... thanks

> 
> > 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.


That would have been from both backends using the same gnus control
files I think.  In my case I don't think gnus will care that a
separate subdir is in there long as it isn't in gnus control files
like 'active' or  '.overview'

I haven't done this yet so don't know for sure.

Thanks for the input.