From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9338 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnmaildir problems after upgrading to emacs 22.1.1 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:40:43 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184604110 13567 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2007 16:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:41:50 +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 Jul 16 18:41:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IATdr-0000a0-EO for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IATdq-0007WO-T3 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:41:46 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.INS.cwru.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: multivac.its.cwru.edu Original-X-Trace: eeyore.INS.cwru.edu 1184600461 7428 129.22.114.26 (16 Jul 2007 15:41:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@po.cwru.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jul 2007 15:41:01 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VlO0/PsBOiB5M7txQ5yzcx4bS8g= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79523 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9338 Archived-At: Pietro Giorgianni wrote: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: >> Deleting the .nnmaildir directories while Gnus is running would cause >> problems. Exit Gnus, then delete the "nov" and "num" directories in >> all of your .nnmaildir directories. (You can keep the "marks" >> directories so you don't lose read/replied/etc. information. The >> problem is likely to be in "nov" or "num" anyway.) Then start Gnus >> again and see if anything still goes wrong. > > too late, i already deleted the whole .nnmaildir directories. You should still do what I described above. That will ensure that the damage won't grow any further. > well, after deleting all .nnmaildir dirs, i still got some other > messages when restarting gnus. It's probably because you deleted them while Gnus was running. That can cause damage that will persist to future Gnus sessions. > my .gnus configuration is quite minimal, and the only reference to > nnmaildir is: > > ,---- > | (setq gnus-select-method > | '(nnmaildir "localhost" > | (directory "~/maildir") > | (expire-age never))) > `---- That looks ok. paul