Re: Gnus sometimes loses track of which articles have been read

[Lowell Gilbert]

Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:

> I read Usenet both at work and on my laptop at home, using the same NNTP
> server from both locations.  My (possibly naive) strategy for
> maintaining continuity across sessions has been to transfer my .newsrc
> and .newsrc.eld files between my work and home computers.  Sometimes,
> after transferring those files from one computer, I'll launch Gnus on
> the other computer and find that it's lost track of which articles I've
> read, with most newsgroups looking like I haven't read them for months.
>
> When I say "sometimes," that might mean "every time"; I've only been
> trying this approach for a few months, and I haven't done it that often.
> I assumed that all of Gnus's state resided in the two files I mentioned,
> and that by using the same server from both places, I could seamlessly
> move back and forth between the two environments, but that's not the
> case.  What should I be doing instead?
>
> And while I'm at it, there's another issue with my little scheme that's
> been bugging me.  I have several mail-based groups on my work machine
> that don't exist on my personal laptop, and when I move the .newsrc*
> files back and forth as described above, I see the work groups on my
> laptop with asterisks in the "unread articles" column.  Is there a
> better way to transfer ONLY the Usenet-related state back and forth?

I think it's the agent data (News/agent/nntp/...).

Just deleting it and forcing Gnus to rebuild it may be good enough.