From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16751 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jin Huang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to properly delete a nnmaildir folder? Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:47:27 -0800 Message-ID: <87pplxldnk.fsf@cad.zju.edu.cn> References: <87wqg5x6it.fsf@building.gnus.org> 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 1394239666 26195 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2014 00:47:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 00:47:46 +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 Mar 08 01:47:55 2014 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 1WM5Qg-0005Jy-Sz for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:47:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WM5Qg-00028B-I6 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WM5QY-000218-3Q for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WM5QR-00035p-8s for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:47:46 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WM5QR-00035j-22 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WM5QP-000545-OP for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:47:37 +0100 Original-Received: from dhcp-143-187.caltech.edu ([131.215.143.187]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:47:37 +0100 Original-Received: from hj by dhcp-143-187.caltech.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:47:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-143-187.caltech.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7uvyFMk670oxtTpF/LPb/YlrKig= 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:16751 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Jin Huang writes: > >> The group buffer list all the subdirectories well. However, after I >> removed one useless subdirectory, the group buffer still shows it, but >> with a star before it: >> >> *: nnmaildir+email: xxx >> >> I have tried to use G to delete it from the group, it tells me: >> >> Couldn't delete group nnmaildir+email: xxx > > If it doesn't exist, it can't be deleted. >"? > > Just kill it with `C-k'. Thank you! It works. I cannot tell the differences among "delete", "remove", "kill" in the operations in group buffer. But anyway, I remember it now. Thank you again! Best, Jin