On Tue, 24/10/06, Reiner Steib wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24 2006, Leo wrote: > >> I noticed that 'News' dir is growing to 45M now and as I searched in >> this dir, I can't find any useful files. I'm wondering is it harmful >> to remove this dir? >> >> I'm using No Gnus v0.6 (2006-10-20) > > Usually the biggest amount comes from the agent data (~/News/agent/). > AFAIK those date will be recreated without any loss. > > The following stuff comes to my mind: > > Not recreated: > > - drafts, delayed and queued articles (`nndraft-directory') > - score files (`gnus-kill-files-directory') > - cached articles (`gnus-cache-directory') > > Recreated: > > - marks files (`nntp-marks-directory'); recreated from ~/.newsrc.eld > - agent data (`gnus-agent-directory'); recreated from the NNTP or IMAP > server? > > I might be a good idea to extend this list and add it to the manual. > > Bye, Reiner.
That clears my concerns. Thank you. -- Leo _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
