Re: How to move saved articles to cache?

[albrecht@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Albrecht Kadlec)]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

L> John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> I have a bunch of saved articles from news groups that are in nnml
> groups.  But for a while now I've been using caching to do my saving.
> 
> Is there any good and safe way to merge these into the cache?

L> I don't think so.  The articles in the cache has to have the same
L> article numbers as the "real" group articles.  You could just cp the
L> articles into the cache and then re-generate the active file and ant
L> the overview files.  `M-x gnus-cache-generate-active'.


Any way to have gnus save a bunch of articles under "very low", unused
article numbers (to move old saved articles into the cache) ?


I was wondering what my cache will turn to, when I move (to another News
server) ? -  all screwed up ? (shiver)

I just imagine the new news server to use article numbers minus 1000.
Will all my cached articles be replaced, will I never see the 'conflicting'
new ones, if I simply copy my cache hierarchy?

Or will I be enchained to this bad-paid-for job forever? :-(

Lars, you mentioned some thoughts of converting article numbers to message
Id's, when moving.

Cached articles will usually be expired, when I move.
So even if the article has a message id in it, I can't ask the new server,
what the articles article-number should be from now on.

If the new server has lower article numbers than the previous, there's a
possible problem. (i.e: some articles not fitting).

possible solutions, that come to mind:

	Storing articles under message Id's in the cache.
	Or is this a bad idea NOW ? ;^)

	Just storing some "Extra Terrestrial" articles under their message
	ID's in the cache.

	Allocating new article numbers for the old cache articles, starting
	from 1 (dense - so there's probably enough space for all the
	articles, that I saved - hopefully NOT ALL articles.

albrecht

BTW: as of 0.51, entering virtual newsgroups is MUCH faster now.
Thanks, Lars