Alberto Luaces <[email protected]> writes:

> due to some corruption of my newsrc.eld file while messing with gnus
> configuration, I lost all the tick marks in one group of one of my
> nnimap servers.
>
> I had an old backup of the file, holding all the ticked article
> numbers. Now the problem is how to restore them, since it seems that
> nnimap doesn't update the marks in the IMAP server from gnus but the
> other way around: if I copy the marks into the buffer provided by
> `gnus-group-edit-group', those marks are discarded.
>
> Last time it happened to me, I recall doing a
> `gnus-summary-goto-article' for every article and then marking it, but I
> wanted to now if there it is a lesser cumbersome way.

You could automate it; a keyboard macro would probably be good enough.
Or you could merge the backup with the current file, which probably
isn't too hard (or dangerous) if it's only one group.
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