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From: mcfarlan@neca.com (D. Michael McFarland)
Subject: Re: I am an idiot.
Date: 29 Mar 2000 12:49:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3g0t93bv5.fsf@katrine.mcfhome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "29 Mar 2000 17:49:37 +0200"

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

 Kai> You have probably screwed up your .newsrc.eld.  I regret having
 Kai> to tell you that the article marks are stored in .newsrc.eld :-/

Is there a general strategy for coping with this situation, where one
has somehow "lost" some of Gnus's state information?  I suppose
quitting via Q is the best bet.  Not that I've ever made such a
mistake, of course.  Ahem.  ("What do you mean I can't yank back those
six groups I just killed?")

Michael

-- 
    D. Michael McFarland   <mcfarlan@neca.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-29 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-29 10:24 Miguel de Icaza
2000-03-29 15:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-03-29 17:49   ` D. Michael McFarland [this message]
2000-03-29 18:17     ` Alan Shutko
2000-03-29 20:12       ` Sudish Joseph
2000-03-29 20:43         ` Colin Rafferty
2000-03-30  5:42           ` Sudish Joseph
2000-03-30  6:20   ` Arcady Genkin
2000-03-30  6:59     ` .newsrc.eld backups (was: I am an idiot.) Mike Fabian
2000-03-30 18:39       ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-30 22:42         ` Mike Fabian
2000-06-13 15:08           ` Andreas Schwab
2000-06-16 10:40             ` Mike Fabian

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