[Pan-users] Re: messages refuse to stay marked as "read"

[Duncan]

Thufir <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:15:54
+0000:

> For one group there are about 7k messages which no matter how many times
> I mark them as "read", then open that group, then go to another group,
> then select file, quit, they're still marked as unread when pan
> restarts.
> 
> Should I clear them (the headers) out from the .pan folder?

It sounds like something may be corrupted... or set read-only.

I have a similar problem here that I've not investigated yet.  A few of 
my groups are not updating in my main pan instance.  I tried subscribing 
to them in my test instance and they grabbed new overviews fine.  I then 
tried transferring them back to my main instance, and it saw them, but 
still refused to grab new overviews from the server, and refused to 
(permanently) mark the transferred ones read, as well, just as you 
indicate is happening to you.  I ended up deleting them and ignoring the 
problem for now, even tho that means I'm currently not following those 
groups, because when I tried messing with it further, other groups 
started having issues, and I didn't have time to do a full investigation.

So there's something strange happening.  I'm not sure what or how to fix 
it, but I can confirm it.  Maybe one of these weeks things will quit 
being so crazy at work and I'll have a bit more time to investigate, and 
bug-file as necessary.  Or maybe you'll get to it first... but anyway, 
yes, I can confirm some sort of funniness going on.  It may be 
corruption, it may be something weird in pan, but something strange is 
happening.

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