Hello all,
I finally got my news.dat file down to size without messing up the whole
program and it was relatively painless. <g>
What I did was to go into the news.dat file and see what groups all my
leftovers posts were from. Once I had that list, I edited the active file
in the yarn directory removing all those subs that I no longer read as
well as made sure that they were out of my newsrc file and score files.
Then I moved the news.dat file, in case this solution didn't work, and
downloaded my newsgroups and let yarn remake my news.dat file.
It worked perfectly and now when I mark my groups read, the news.dat file
is expired completely empty. Now I can expire the 999d when I remove a
group or just do the above if the file gets out of hand.
Hope that this helps those of you who want to trim down their news.dat
file.
Cheerfully,
Penny
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