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Subject: Re: power loss while receiving news
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:02:15 +0200
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Hi Nigel,

> I can delete the last 675 entries from the history file, will that just
> cause the overview record to be recreated? What about the history.hash
> and history.index files?

The second point of the process does that (purge of the overview records 
and recreation of the history.dir/hash/index files):
2- running the expire process ("news.daily notdaily" called with the 
same parameters as in crontab)


> I can't believe it's as easy as removing a few
> lines from history and starting the transfer at the point of the last
> missing message.

Not everything needs being complicated :)

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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