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  • Sometimes gnus says a group has unread messages which does not

    From Cecil Westerhof@Cecil@decebal.nl to gnu.emacs.help on Thu Sep 15 17:48:26 2022
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    It does not happen often, but I just had it (and still have it) again.
    Gnus indicates that a group has messages, which does not have them.
    When I leave the group gnus still indicates the group has messages.
    Fetching new news does not change it either.
    Anybody an idea what could be causing this and what I could do about
    it.
    --
    Cecil Westerhof
    Senior Software Engineer
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  • From HASM@hasm@example.invalid to gnu.emacs.help on Thu Sep 15 10:49:39 2022
    From Newsgroup: gnu.emacs.help


    It does not happen often, but I just had it (and still have it) again.
    Gnus indicates that a group has messages, which does not have them.
    When I leave the group gnus still indicates the group has messages.
    Fetching new news does not change it either.

    Maybe
    touch ~/.newsrc
    and restart gnus?

    Or maybe, though not recommended, in its first few lines:
    rm ~/.newsrc.eld'
    and restart gnus?

    -- HASM
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  • From Cecil Westerhof@Cecil@decebal.nl to gnu.emacs.help on Thu Sep 15 20:37:08 2022
    From Newsgroup: gnu.emacs.help

    HASM <hasm@example.invalid> writes:

    It does not happen often, but I just had it (and still have it) again.
    Gnus indicates that a group has messages, which does not have them.
    When I leave the group gnus still indicates the group has messages.
    Fetching new news does not change it either.

    Maybe
    touch ~/.newsrc
    and restart gnus?

    To my surprise that worked. Because the group that was a problem was
    an e-mail group and those are not in .newsrc, but in .newsrc.eld.

    Is there a reason this happens that can be circumvented?


    Or maybe, though not recommended, in its first few lines:
    rm ~/.newsrc.eld'
    and restart gnus?


    By the way: my .newsrc is 1.1 KB and my .newsrc.eld is 951 KB. Is that
    normal?
    --
    Cecil Westerhof
    Senior Software Engineer
    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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  • From HASM@hasm@example.invalid to gnu.emacs.help on Thu Sep 15 13:32:22 2022
    From Newsgroup: gnu.emacs.help

    Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

    Maybe
    touch ~/.newsrc
    and restart gnus?

    To my surprise that worked. Because the group that was a problem was
    an e-mail group and those are not in .newsrc, but in .newsrc.eld.

    As far as I understand it, touching ~/.newsrc forces the rebuild of .newsrc.eld. Groups that are not in .newsrc will disappear.

    Is there a reason this happens that can be circumvented?

    No idea. I haven't had those two files get out of sync in a long time.
    I used to delete ~/.newsrc.eld often, back in usenet days (and probably
    needed to "catch up" each group.)

    By the way: my .newsrc is 1.1 KB and my .newsrc.eld is 951 KB. Is that normal?

    I have a minimal set of groups these days and 1.8K vs 11K. Your
    .newsrc.eld is almost two order of magnitude bigger than mine, but,
    depending on the groups and the fragmentation of "seen" articles on
    each, things could grow big.

    -- HASM




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