Re: [Gnus-5.5] Changing news server -- how well does it work?

[Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>]

>> On 23 Apr 1998 12:23:01 -0600,
>> Mark Borges(mb) wrote:
mb> My current newsfeed (news.colorado.edu) has become extremely flaky,
mb> and I would like to move to an alternate as my primary server. I've
mb> read through the `Changing Servers' node on the info pages, and am
mb> very tempted to switch servers using gnus-change-server().

mb> Does this work reasonably well, or will I find some unexpected and/or
mb> undocumented surprises? In particular, I'm curious how the transition
mb> will handle:

mb>   (1) cached news articles. I have saved many old articles to local
mb>       disk, and wonder if I'll continue to have access to them (with
mb>       their old article numbers) via the Gnus interface.

Now that I've switched (and hand-edited the .eld file to preserve my
mailfolder ticks) I've run into a problem -- it seems that some of the 
articles in my cache folder have article numbers larger than those for 
the same group in the new server. Consequently, I think this is
confusing Gnus such that the *Group* buffer never shows any new
articles as arriving (when in fact there are). 

Is there a simple way to resequence one's cached article numbers to
start at a lower number?

I tried using gnus-cache-generate-active(), but you don't want to know 
how much fun that was to recover from (somehow my top level
~/Mail/active file got wiped out). So, before I try shoot myself in
the foot again, I thought I'd ask if others have run into this
problem, and, if so, what the solution was.

Thanks.

-- 
  -mb-