lost tick marks

lost tick marks

[Didier Verna]

        Hi !

Yesterday, gnus lost all trace of ticked articles in my nntp groups (I had
more than 500 of them, and this is not the first time it happens :-(). I tried
to restore the tick list from a backup of .newsrc.eld, but that didn't change
anything.

Does somebody know what else would be needed ?

A side question: I usually ! and * articles at the same time, so that I keep
them locally (this is also a good way to preserve ticked articles in case the
tick marks are lost). Is there already a way to do this (tick and cache)
automatically ?


Thanks !

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Re: lost tick marks

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Sep 03 2006, Didier Verna wrote:

> Yesterday, gnus lost all trace of ticked articles in my nntp groups
> (I had more than 500 of them, and this is not the first time it
> happens :-(). 

IIRC this has been reported previously.  Unfortunately nobody supplied
a recipe to reproduce it.

> I tried to restore the tick list from a backup of .newsrc.eld, but
> that didn't change anything.
>
> Does somebody know what else would be needed ?

Did you restore the marks files as well?

,----[ (info "(gnus)No Gnus") ]
|    * Changes in back ends
| 
|         * The nntp back end stores article marks in `~/News/marks'.
| 
|           The directory can be changed using the (customizable) variable
|           `nntp-marks-directory', and marks can be disabled using the
|           (back end) variable `nntp-marks-is-evil'.  The advantage of
|           this is that you can copy `~/News/marks' (using rsync, scp or
|           whatever) to another Gnus installation, and it will realize
|           what articles you have read and marked.  The data in
|           `~/News/marks' has priority over the same data in
|           `~/.newsrc.eld'.
`----

> A side question: I usually ! and * articles at the same time, so that I keep
> them locally (this is also a good way to preserve ticked articles in case the
> tick marks are lost). Is there already a way to do this (tick and cache)
> automatically ?

Does it work to set `gnus-use-cache' to t?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Article Caching") ]
|    To turn caching on, set `gnus-use-cache' to `t'.  By default, all
| articles ticked or marked as dormant will then be copied over to your
| local cache (`gnus-cache-directory').
`----

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Re: lost tick marks

[Didier Verna]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 03 2006, Didier Verna wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, gnus lost all trace of ticked articles in my nntp groups
>> (I had more than 500 of them, and this is not the first time it
>> happens :-(). 
>
> IIRC this has been reported previously.  Unfortunately nobody supplied
> a recipe to reproduce it.

        I can't provide a receipe either. I suspect this may have somethign to
do with hitting C-g at some point, but I'm not even sure about it.


>> I tried to restore the tick list from a backup of .newsrc.eld, but
>> that didn't change anything.
>>
>> Does somebody know what else would be needed ?
>
> Did you restore the marks files as well?

        Yes. I figure that out in the meantime, restored it, and it worked.


>> A side question: I usually ! and * articles at the same time, so that I
>> keep them locally (this is also a good way to preserve ticked articles in
>> case the tick marks are lost). Is there already a way to do this (tick and
>> cache) automatically ?
>
> Does it work to set `gnus-use-cache' to t?

        My current setting is passive, but I guess you're right.

Thanks.

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