From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16546 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:46:44 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87eh7qs7p7.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381600035 15507 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2013 17:47:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:47:15 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 12 19:47:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VV3Hb-0005hu-OX for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:47:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58952 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV3Hb-0001bd-En for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV3HS-0001bJ-Mc for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV3HL-0000S6-Co for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VV3HL-0000Rr-6T for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VV3HI-0005Xk-MH for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:47:00 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:47:00 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 19:47:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0B/5hbNdCwYRiUW8sE3LuDTvFj0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16546 Archived-At: 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.