From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29673 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Fabian Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: .newsrc.eld backups (was: I am an idiot.) Date: 30 Mar 2000 08:59:23 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <874s9px9lm.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Reply-To: mike.fabian@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166305 4045 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69E3D051E for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:06:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB06878; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:06:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:05:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19041 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:05:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from newsfeed.rhein-neckar.de (newsfeed.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.2]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B6ED051E for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:05:18 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from nozomi.rhein-neckar.de (nozomi.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.28]) by newsfeed.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09725 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:05:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mike.fabian@gmx.de) Original-Received: from nozomi.rhein-neckar.de (nozomi.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.28]) by nozomi.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA26351 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:00:09 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "';oPz9V1+<,`}1ZuxRv~EiSusWq*{Yjr"Sdvbhq'?q=2R\\6Y9O/,SAE`{J|6I=|w/sQg< rW_N'E3IV6~f8?\l#Es`]S`mv',PY(`8{$$R?+gLu}Qv/Mn>)?uladFjJ@yl!_p_Jh;5QxlD6zL:?r IXe4FfK$C^mWhh$o`yt;.r.FLZLQOWBt> writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=EAjohann) writes: >=20 > > You have probably screwed up your .newsrc.eld. I regret having to > > tell you that the article marks are stored in .newsrc.eld :-/ >=20 > It's probably overwritten now, but if not, try replacing .newsrc.eld > with .newsrc.eld~. this reminds me of a strange phenomenon I am observing with the backup-files of .newsrc.eld. I have (setq version-control t) (setq kept-new-versions 2) (setq kept-old-versions 2) in my .emacs to make XEmacs create not only foo~ backup-files, but a series of numbered backup files. This works in most cases, for example I have several backups of .bbdb: mike@nozomi ~$ ll .bbdb* -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 7675 Mar 29 20:38 .bbdb -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 7604 Mar 5 18:54 .bbdb.~1~ -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 7641 Mar 21 20:02 .bbdb.~2~ -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 7661 Mar 24 01:02 .bbdb.~4~ -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 7627 Mar 25 20:09 .bbdb.~5~ but no extra backups are created for .newsrc.eld: mike@nozomi ~$ ll .newsrc.eld* -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 178191 Mar 30 08:50 .newsrc.eld -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 178151 Mar 30 08:49 .newsrc.eld~ mike@nozomi ~$=20 Why not?=20 --=20 Mike Fabian