From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:46:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh7qs7p7.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
Over the years I've accumulated many many nnml directories that are no
longer in use.
I know how to delete individual mail directories thru gnus
interface... but how can I delete dozens of them.
Something like just delete them and then excise them from .newsrc.eld?
Is there some way better than that... but doesn't take all day to do?
find ~/Mail/ -type d |wc -l shows 579 directories. I'm guessing
something like 250-290 are actually in use or at least holding
something I want to keep. So, I'm talking about something in the
neighborhood of 300 mail directories that need to bite the dust.
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-12 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-12 17:46 Harry Putnam [this message]
2013-10-14 20:03 ` Glyn Millington
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