Re: Getting the right displayed number of articles

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Afraid that isn't doing it here.  The first time around I did use 'C-u'
> > to enter.  But have done it again now -- used this sequence:
> > 
> > 1) C-u enter wrongly shows 1231, mark all with #  (214 articles)
> > 2) 'B-m' move to same group (ding-list)
> > 3) 'ZZ' to exit, C-u to re-enter now shows 1438, there are actually
> >    214
> > 
> > Tried the same sequence again now it shows 1645 -- I'm either getting
> > a lot of mail awful quick or something is wacky.
> > 
> > Did a full restart -- no change
> 
> Possibly you have some duplicates which were suppressed until you moved
> the first lot else where.

Well I don't have duplicate suppressing on so when I have dups they
have the 'Gnus-Warning: ...' on them and I run M-& and give it the
warning string. and delete any that show up.  Nice try though.

Everytime I try to redo the numbering with moving technique, the
number displayed increases by the 200+ that are still there.

Also a quick line count of the files in ~/Mail/ding-mail/* from
'dired' shows 217 files.  The displayed count is now up to 1651.

> 
> One other thing I've found is that if I type C-u 100 RET to enter a
> group from which I've moved articles I only see 30 or so
> articles. Presumably these articles numbers cover the last 100
> messages. 

Yes, I'm not sure how that works either but it can be somewhat
confusing. Especially if you try from inside with 100 'Z R'.

I've used the 'moving to same group' technique before on other groups
successfully so having a bit of trouble seeing what is different here.

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Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com