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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld corrupt with nnml mailbox
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:35:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r8pxhi8d.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lmg6r826.fsf@universe.yi.org> (burton@openprivacy.org's message of "13 Dec 2001 15:53:33 -0800")

burton@openprivacy.org (Kevin A. Burton - burtonator) wrote:
> OK.  My machine just crashed when gnus was saving its .newsrc.eld file.
>
> For starters... shouldn't be make this transactional?

Yes, that would be nice.

> My question is... is there a way to have gnus reread and recreate the correct
> .newsrc.eld file from my ~/Mail directory ???

Some of the contents of .newsrc.eld may be duplicated there, depending
on your Gnus version.  Specifically, nnml may have your article marks
stored there.  Group parameters, foreign servers, topic structure,
etc., are gone unless you have a backup, I think.


paul



      reply	other threads:[~2001-12-14 16:35 UTC|newest]

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2001-12-13 23:53 Kevin A. Burton - burtonator
2001-12-14 16:35 ` Paul Jarc [this message]

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