Re: Gnus lies about downloaded state

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com> writes:

> Kevin Greiner writes:
>
>   Kevin> Your screen shot shows that articles 17663 though 17718 have a (-)
>   Kevin> undownloaded flag AND are highlighted with the
>   Kevin> gnus-summary-normal-undownloaded-face.  Your format places the
>   Kevin> download mark (+/-) AFTER the article number (the (+) before the
>   Kevin> number is its score).
>
>   Kevin> Please verify that these articles have been fetched into the agent
>   Kevin> by excuting
>
>   Kevin> M-: (assq 17663 gnus-agent-article-alist)
>
> (17663 . 731230) 
>
>   Kevin> If it returns (17663), everything is working fine.  If it returns
>   Kevin> (17663 . #) then I can't explain this.
>
> Well, I look into the .agentview file and found that 17663 lies (btw 17354 .
> 17720) in the list which starts with 731230
>
> ( (731231 17721 . 17748) 
>   (nil 15 (39 . 90) (94 . 108) ...)
>   (731230 (6 . 14) .... (17354 . 17720)) )
>
> i don't know enough the rev 2 of .agentview format to understant what this
> means.  also, the file 17663 is in the agent dir.
>
> does the .agentview seem ok?

Absolutely.

That first number is the day on which the article was fetched.  The
remaining is a compressed sequence of article numbers sharing the same
day.

Kevin