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 -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
