From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16742 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jin Huang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: How to properly delete a nnmaildir folder? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:54:36 -0800 Message-ID: <87txbcum5f.fsf@cad.zju.edu.cn> 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 1394071787 29013 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2014 02:09:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 02:09:47 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 03:09:57 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 1WLNkx-0002Y4-8v for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:09:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55379 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLNkw-0006Ez-RC for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:09:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLNbZ-0004IE-0x for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:00:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLNbR-0002Yu-Jj for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLNbR-0002WW-DI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:00:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLNbP-000280-EL for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:00:03 +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 ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:00:03 +0100 Original-Received: from hj by dhcp-143-187.caltech.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:00:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 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:n0hp/lkWzRd55AMLVhyD9tLjwgk= 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:16742 Archived-At: Hi, Part of my configuration of gnus is below: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnmaildir "email" (directory "~/.gnus.d/mail/")))) 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 What should I do to resolve this problem? Best, Jin