[Pan-users] Cache management (was Re: Weirdness ...)

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:38:37 -0700, Duncan wrote:

> Beartooth posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
> below,  on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:41:56 -0500:

>> Just on a hunch, what is Pan's cache, and what do I lose if I clear it?
>> (Oh, and how? I know there's a way ....)
> 
> PAN's cache is the local copy of messages it has downloaded.  Clearing it
> will clear all those messages -- not the overviews, just the messages
> themselves (that is, the bodies -- unless you've copied them to a save
> folder or saved them to a file, of course, that's separate from the cache).

So I need to go through group after group, saving the threads I've marked
to watch, right? And start saving them on arrival. And *then* clear the
cache ...

> One can also clear the overviews (aka headers), if desired.  That's a
> separate task.
 
> The cache can be cleared two different ways. 

OK, I think I have that -- and have saved it.<grin> Again, many thanks!

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