From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9316 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: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:04:57 -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 1184255826 3878 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2007 15:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:57:06 +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 Jul 12 17:57:04 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 1I912M-0008Lc-Qw for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I912M-0003xV-GK for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:57:02 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.glorb.com!usenet.INS.cwru.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: multivac.its.cwru.edu Original-X-Trace: eeyore.INS.cwru.edu 1184220310 25644 129.22.114.26 (12 Jul 2007 06:05:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@po.cwru.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jul 2007 06:05:10 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LLAQEjbeTvz6FxGiuhGe+Xzwl88= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79497 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:56:48 -0400 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:9316 Archived-At: Pietro Giorgianni wrote: > if i delete the .nnmaildir directory, quit gnus, exit emacs, start > emacs again, run gnus, it then works (simply restarting gnus doesn't), > but it's annoying having to loose all information about read, replied > etc. messages. 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. Also note that deleting the "num" directories will make nnmaildir reassign article number starting from 1. This can cause problems if you use the cache or agent, since they identify articles by number. But if you've already caused damage by deleting the directories while Gnus was running, then deleting the "num" directories again probably won't do any more harm. paul