[Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem

[Jim Henderson]

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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