Read marks in different Gnus versions

Read marks in different Gnus versions

[Peter Oberberg]

Hello,

I am frequently facing the problem, that articles I have read are not
marked as read, when switching Gnus versions, i.e., the read mark
pertains only to a certain Gnus version.

Before going into more detail (emacs-versions, Gnus-versions), I would
like to know, whether this behaviour is common.

If I understand it right, the related marks are stored in the
~/.newsrc.eld file, or am I wrong there?

Greetings
Peter

Re: Read marks in different Gnus versions

[Johan Bockgård]

Peter Oberberg <spam_unwanted@null.null> writes:

> I am frequently facing the problem, that articles I have read are not
> marked as read, when switching Gnus versions, i.e., the read mark
> pertains only to a certain Gnus version.
>
> Before going into more detail (emacs-versions, Gnus-versions), I would
> like to know, whether this behaviour is common.
>
> If I understand it right, the related marks are stored in the
> ~/.newsrc.eld file, or am I wrong there?

(info "(gnus) Oort Gnus")

    If you have tried Oort (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
    release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when
    upgrading to this version. In particular, you will probably want to
    remove all `.marks' (nnml) and `.mrk' (nnfolder) files, so that
    flags are read from your `.newsrc.eld' instead of from the
    `.marks'/`.mrk' file where this release store flags. See a later
    entry for more information about marks. Note that downgrading isn't
    save in general.

(info "(gnus) No Gnus")

    If you have tried No Gnus (the unstable Gnus branch leading to this
    release) but went back to a stable version, be careful when
    upgrading to this version. In particular, you will probably want to
    remove the `~/News/marks' directory (perhaps selectively), so that
    flags are read from your `~/.newsrc.eld' instead of from the stale
    marks file, where this release will store flags for nntp. See a
    later entry for more information about nntp marks. Note that
    downgrading isn't safe in general.

-- 
Johan Bockgård