From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8765 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris F Clark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Is there a description of the gnus databse (files on disk)? Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:34:54 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172864441 29958 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2007 19:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 02 20:40:35 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 1HNDcI-0006IQ-OW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HNDcI-0007uI-5O for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Original-X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1172864094 21734 192.74.137.71 (2 Mar 2007 19:34:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 19:34:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OOkKxsUC5umdkQNCsLSFOK+uD/Q= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78949 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:8765 Archived-At: 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