* How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse
@ 2013-10-12 17:46 Harry Putnam
2013-10-14 20:03 ` Glyn Millington
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2013-10-12 17:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
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.
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* Re: How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse
2013-10-12 17:46 How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse Harry Putnam
@ 2013-10-14 20:03 ` Glyn Millington
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From: Glyn Millington @ 2013-10-14 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> 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?
Hi Harry,
your question intrigued me because I had a few dozen such groups here. In
the absence of an answer from Those Who Know, this is how I did it.
1. In the group buffer hit 'L', to reveal all those unsubscribed groups.
2. Mark the UNwanted groups for processing and change them all to level 7
with S l
3. M-x gnus-group-kill-level and Gnus asks which level, tell it 7
that seems to have done the trick for me
hope that helps
Glyn
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