From: Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:03:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppr7pqlg.fsf@nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh7qs7p7.fsf@newsguy.com>
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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