* Is there a description of the gnus databse (files on disk)?
@ 2007-03-02 19:34 Chris F Clark
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From: Chris F Clark @ 2007-03-02 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
I would like to hack its contents to resolve a couple of problems.
1) I (foolishly perhaps!) read a large and active newgroup
(microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) and that causes a lot of cruft
to be dumped in my News directory (in the cache and some other
sub-directory). since the system I'm reading it on has a quota,
plus I pay for storage. I would like to safely prune that
directory down to minimal size, without losing the few articles I
have saved that may help me get my broken copy of xp working.
2) In other groups I read, I have articles marked * and !*. The ones
marked !* work correctly, they don't show up as unread, but they do
persist. The ones marked * show up as unread when I restart gnus.
Now the ones marked just * probably got in that state when I last
"cleaned up" my news directory (see 1). So, I'l like to fiddle
with the files to fix up those articles so that they show up as !*
also.
To do all of this, it would help if I understood what the various
files in the news directory, the contents of the .newsrc, and whatever
other information gnus keeps from run to run.
So, if there is a pointer to something that documents the above that I
just don't know about, being made aware of it would be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
-Chris
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