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From: Paul Repacholi <prep@prep.synonet.com>
Subject: Re: How to save, retrieve articles
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 01:10:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7d4q9w7.fsf@prep.synonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84n0i2lydq.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Paul Repacholi <prep@prep.synonet.com> writes:

>> I've been doing this, but at odd random seeming times there is huge
>> lossage of saved stuff :( gnus-use-cache is t, and I use ! as the
>> mark.

> You lose saved articles?  That's bad!  Hm.  Maybe it's a bug in
> Gnus?  Can you provide more detail on when does it happen, and so
> forth?

It only happens once in a blue moon. The last one vanished totally
except for an orphan line in the active file in the ~/New/cache
dir. If I lose my comp.os.vms collection I will be very unhappy!

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8765oqbyzx.fsf@desktop.xx.yy>
     [not found] ` <84el3e7ru9.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
2003-05-04 17:56   ` Hugh Lawson
2003-05-04 19:04     ` Johan Bockgård
2003-05-04 19:24       ` Hugh Lawson
2003-05-04 21:35   ` Paul Repacholi
     [not found]     ` <84n0i2lydq.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
2003-05-06 17:10       ` Paul Repacholi [this message]

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