Re: Gnus lies about downloaded state

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com> writes:

> i am seeing the same thing.  i just did 'J s' and am sure all articles are
> downloaded but the summary buffer still highlights those as undownloaded.
>
> it didn't happen yesterday.  i am using the latest from cvs.
>
> screen shot attached.
>
> Kai Großjohann writes:
>
>   Kai> Look at this screenshot.  The "-" in the leftmost column means the
>   Kai> article isn't downloaded, but Gnus is unplugged, and I can see the
>   Kai> message!
>
>   Kai> What's the story?
>
>   Kai> I think this happened only recently.  -- Ambibibentists unite!
>

OK OK.  I can be hard headed at times but this isn't one of them.

I believe that I found this myself just the other night.  In any case,
I've been unable to reproduce this problem with the 6.131 version of
gnus-agent. Pls download it then repeat your tests.

VERY IMPORTANT: 
Run gnus-agent-regenerate to repair your groups first!!  You've
already downloaded a number of articles, no need to download them
again.

Here's what I tried.
1) Opened gnus.ding
2) Set the downloadable mark on 100 articles (A random mix of headers
   with about 70 already having their article's fetched into the
   agent).
3) Closed gnus.ding
4) Executed fetch session ('J s') in the group buffer.
5) Opened gnus.ding; At this point, all of the downloadable marks were
   gone and all articles displayed with a downloaded(+) mark.

Kevin