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[Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem
From: |
Jim Henderson |
Subject: |
[Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:45:06 +0000 (UTC) |
User-agent: |
Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) |
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:05:43 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:05:12 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I've nuked the old headers, re-downloaded them and marked
>>> everything before today as read. Now, it shows 3 new headers in my
>>> favorite group, but the moment I enter the group, it marks them read.
>>> How do I get them back, and how do I stop it from doing this?
>>> Naturally, I have the posts threaded, which means that I can't get
>>> them back just by looking at the date without going through several
>>> *thousand* messages.
>>
>> I run into this occasionally - it has to do with the news server
>> apparently giving he wrong high message counter. Have a look in the
>> .pan2 directory at the newsrc files and just edit the file that has
>> your group in it (grep is useful for identifying the file) and reset
>> the message counter manually.
>>
>>
> Right now, it reads like this:
> alt.sysadmin.recovery:
> 0-458244,458246-458250,458254-458257,
> 458260,458262-458263,458269,458275,458279-458280,458282-458287,
> 458289,458291-458295,458297-458300,458303-458308,458310,458312-458338,
> 458340-458342
> but with all the numbers on one long line. How do I correct it?
What I typically do is just set it to 0-1 and then sort the messages by
date after a new download (you have to make the change while pan isn't
running) and mark up to a certain time as read.
It seems that "mark all as read" tends to trigger this problem for me.
Jim
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- [Pan-users] New Pan problem, Joe Zeff, 2008/12/05
- [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Jim Henderson, 2008/12/05
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Joe Zeff, 2008/12/05
- [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem,
Jim Henderson <=
- [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Duncan, 2008/12/08
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Joe Zeff, 2008/12/08
- [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Duncan, 2008/12/08
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Joe Zeff, 2008/12/08
- [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Duncan, 2008/12/08
- [Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem, Jim Henderson, 2008/12/08