* bug#9958: 24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
@ 2011-11-05 7:54 Sven Joachim
2012-01-06 19:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Sven Joachim @ 2011-11-05 7:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9958; +Cc: Sven Joachim
Package: Emacs,Gnus
My ~/News directory ballooned to several hundred megabytes since I
switched from Emacs 23.3/No Gnus 0.17 to Emacs 24/Gnus 5.13 six weeks
ago. I found out this is because the agent stores copies of the full
articles, rather than just the headers, under ~/News/agent, as requested
in bug #8502. Note that I don't use IMAP, just NNTP (Gmane).
While this probably makes sense, there should be an easy way to clear
the cache and free up disk space. I ended up running
find ~/News/agent -name "[0-9]*" -delete
which is not what people should have to do, IMHO.
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* bug#9958: 24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
2011-11-05 7:54 bug#9958: 24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles Sven Joachim
@ 2012-01-06 19:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-06 20:13 ` Sven Joachim
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2012-01-06 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Joachim; +Cc: 9958
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> While this probably makes sense, there should be an easy way to clear
> the cache and free up disk space. I ended up running
>
> find ~/News/agent -name "[0-9]*" -delete
>
> which is not what people should have to do, IMHO.
If you're using the Agent, then saying `M-x gnus-agent-expire' once in a
while is required (if you want stuff to be removed). Doesn't that work?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/
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* bug#9958: 24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
2012-01-06 19:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2012-01-06 20:13 ` Sven Joachim
2012-01-06 22:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sven Joachim @ 2012-01-06 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 9958
On 2012-01-06 20:04 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> While this probably makes sense, there should be an easy way to clear
>> the cache and free up disk space. I ended up running
>>
>> find ~/News/agent -name "[0-9]*" -delete
>>
>> which is not what people should have to do, IMHO.
>
> If you're using the Agent, then saying `M-x gnus-agent-expire' once in a
> while is required (if you want stuff to be removed). Doesn't that work?
Apparently not, since gnus-agent-expire has been in my
gnus-exit-gnus-hook for several years, long before
gnus-agent-store-article was invented.
Cheers,
Sven
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* bug#9958: 24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
2012-01-06 20:13 ` Sven Joachim
@ 2012-01-06 22:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2012-01-06 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Joachim; +Cc: 9958
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> Apparently not, since gnus-agent-expire has been in my
> gnus-exit-gnus-hook for several years, long before
> gnus-agent-store-article was invented.
Ah, right. The new caching code didn't enter the messages into the
right Agent control structures, so they were never deleted.
Fixed now. (That is, messages already cached by the new mechanism will
have to be deleted manually, but new messages should be expired the
normal way.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/
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