[Pan-users] Re: New Pan problem

[Jim Henderson]

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.

gmane has a habit of doing this, in fact.

-- 
 Jim Henderson
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