From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5953 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bernhard Marx" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: need to recover from accidental gnus-summary-catchup-and-exit Date: 2 Nov 2005 11:30:19 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1130959819.463074.48950@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671578 29522 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:39:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:36:05 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.57.239.53 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1130959824 25244 127.0.0.1 (2 Nov 2005 19:30:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 19:30:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050911 Firefox/1.0.6 (Debian package 1.0.6-5),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.57.239.53; posting-account=ikiP-Q0AAAAmuaTsVQCK1jkLEjwT3_kB Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:6095 Original-Lines: 40 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 6095 Tue Jan 17 17:36:05 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5953 Archived-At: Hi, while in summary buffer in gnus I accidentally hit c y and quit the group. So all unread messages were marked as read. The group was of the type nnml+private How do I recover the information which e-mails were unread? I exited xemacs (which I probably shouldn't have done) by C-x C-c and said save none. Then I made backup-copies of the ".newsrc*" files. so what I have right now is: -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 1154 2005-11-02 08:09 .newsrc -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 1154 2005-11-01 17:01 .newsrc~ -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 40641 2004-12-12 11:34 .newsrc-dribble~ -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 40641 2005-11-02 19:28 .newsrc-dribble~.old -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 51122 2005-11-02 08:09 .newsrc.eld -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 51073 2005-11-01 17:01 .newsrc.eld~ -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 51073 2005-11-02 19:29 .newsrc.eld~.old -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 51122 2005-11-02 19:29 .newsrc.eld.old -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 1154 2005-11-02 19:28 .newsrc~.old -rw-r--r-- 1 berny berny 1154 2005-11-02 19:28 .newsrc.old -rw------- 1 berny berny 55138 2005-11-02 19:23 .nnmail-cache -rw------- 1 berny berny 55138 2005-11-02 19:31 .nnmail-cache.old What do I do now? Which file contains the information about what message has already been read? Could I play back a copy of that file from a backup and just start gnus? What happens to the mails/news that arrived in the meantime and are in the ~/Maildir/ folder? Thanks a lot, Berny