From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16550 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to get rid of many nnml mail directories en-masse Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:03:39 +0100 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <87ppr7pqlg.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <87eh7qs7p7.fsf@newsguy.com> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.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 1381782685 4580 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2013 20:31:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:31:25 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 14 22:31:29 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 1VVonZ-0007HT-5q for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:31:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38656 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVonY-0001pn-OZ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVonR-0001or-BD for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:31:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVonL-0002T6-5K for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49273) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVonK-0002Sw-UK for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VVonH-00076e-AI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:31:11 +0200 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:31:11 +0200 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:31:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Optional Memorial: Saint Callistus I, pope and martyr, A.D. 2013 X-Shakespeare: "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." -- The Merchant of Venice, I.3 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ylXGmDt88RLQ6xLbdeeBxdM2z8= 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:16550 Archived-At: Harry Putnam 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