Re: [Pan-users] pan.sendlater oddness.

[Duncan]

On Wed 16 Apr 2003 03:19, Dave Hill posted as excerpted below:
> Following up my own post here...
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:12:56 +0100
>
> Dave Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I have the same problem and posted to the list about it a while ago.
> >
> > Reading your notes about mailbox and maildir stuff made me go and
> > look. I have only pan.sent.mbox, this is running CVS 11th April.
>
> I was looking in the wrong place. I was looking in .pan/data/folders,
> not .pan/data/messages/folders. Obviously a "left over". Is there a
> definitive list of what files are used now and which can safely be
> deleted?

I don't know of any definitive list, but it shouldn't be to hard to figure out 
with file system dates and common sense.  Of course, the old "rename, then 
delete after testing to be sure nothing broke" still holds.

> > GLib - file giochannel.c: line 1445 (g_io_channel_read_line_string):
> > assertion `channel != NULL' failed
> >
> > NNTP handshake failed: Error reading from socket.
> >
> > Handshake failed: Error reading from socket.
> >
> > GLib - file giochannel.c: line 104 (g_io_channel_unref): assertion
> > `channel != NULL' failed

I haven't upgraded to 0.13.94 yet, as I've been busy trying to undo the damage 
a failed Nvidia driver upgrade caused among other things, but 0.13.93 and a 
few versions b4 that have had a connection stalling issue that I hadn't 
experienced until just yesterday (but read about others having).  The part of 
the error you list above looks familiar, now.  I don't know if that's been 
worked out in .94 or not, but the errors could be related.

> > So, I deleted my "test.test" folder using "File-> Delete folder" but,
> > when I restart Pan, it reappears! Where is that stored, I can't find
> > it in.pan/data - there's no mbox file and no directory.
>
> See above for location. The bug is that pan simply doesn't delete
> messages or folders! No error messages, it just doesn't do it.

I'm accustomed to doing a bit of that stuff manually, when necessary.  
Basically, evaluating whether I want to keep the stuff if it's a continuing 
problem on something I'd normally not delete, and then moving or deleting the 
appropriate files and doing a file search for files containing the string, to 
change to the new string or delete that subsection, as appropriate, when 
necessary.  I'm not saying that such is really acceptable for stable 
versions, except perhaps in extreme emergency recovery situations, but anyone 
running the betas should know how to and be prepared to do that, when 
necessary, as well as being prepared to lose cache and/or retained data 
folders once in awhile.  That's no issue for me either, as I consider news 
and anything in my newsreader the news equivilant of the temporary browser 
cache anyway.  Anything I really want to keep I mail to myself, or otherwise 
save.outside of pan.  Thus, losing the cache can be a bit annoying and 
inconvenient at times, but isn't going to be a big deal, which is good since 
I've lost it a few times, the last when the config file format changed and my 
4 gig max cache size was reset to the default 10M!! killing everything I'd 
downloaded!  Like I said, annoying, especially since part of it wasn't on the 
server any longer, but not a big deal, really.

-- 
Duncan
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