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From: Bjorn Solberg <bs_usenet@hekneby.org>
Subject: Re: Wrong message count in nnml group
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:27:12 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oetfy396.fsf@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wu84mdcd.fsf@pacbell.net>

I wrote:

> For the new year, I did a "G r" on my nnml:misc group to rename it to
> nnml::misc-2003.  That worked fine.  Then I moved the messages that had
> arrived in 2004, using "B m" and moving them to nnml:misc, which then
> re-created nnml:misc.

> However, since then, Gnus insists that nnml:misc holds 4487 messages
> although there are only 10 messages there that I moved.  ~/Mail/misc has
> files 1 2 .. 10.  

[...]

I found the culprit in ~/News/cache/active, which had an entry for
nnml:misc.  Removing the line entirely took care of the problem quite
nicely.

Bjorn.


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