On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:46:32 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Mike - EMAIL IGNORED > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 20 Jul > 2007 17:05:31 -0400: > >> I just installed pan 0.131 on a new laptop. My previous version is >> 0.14.2.91 . The first difference I noticed is the new directory name >> .pan2 . Then I saw that the configuration format is different. Is >> there any way to import data the old version into the new version? This >> would include all configuration information, including servers and >> newsgroups, and the contents of messages saved in folders. > > Some of the old info can be imported, but not all of it. > > * You should be able to symlink the old cache and have it "just work", if > you had a large cache (not worth it for the default 10 MB cache), but > before you do, set the new cache size (it must be set by hand, editing > preferences.xml). > > * The score file format is similar, with the exception that the new > scorefile format is stricter to slrn's format. Specifically, if you were > using regexes for your newsgroup expressions, you'll have to change that > to * wildcard format. See http://www.slrn.org/docs/score.txt for > details. Here, I took the opportunity to clean up my scorefile in > accordance with the rules at that link, making over a hundred scoring > rules into just 6 or so, in two sections. Once you've fixed that if > necessary, you can use the same scorefile. > > * old pan could export to standard newsrc format, new-pan uses it by > default. So if you still have old-pan around, you can tell it to export > to newsrc, then replace the appropriate files in new-pan. Note that > newsrc is single-server, however, so you'll need to export for each > server, and make sure you get the right newsrc in the right server slot > (newsrc-X, where X is the server number) for new pan. > > Other than that, pretty much everything has changed. You must > reconfigure, and download overviews over again, as the formats for those > files are different. > > If you use multiple servers or large binary groups, however, it's very > worth it. =8^)
Can I use the old 'folders' directory? Mike. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
