Re: Can I remove News dir?

[Leo]

On Tue, 24/10/06, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 24 2006, Leo wrote:
>
>> I noticed that 'News' dir is growing to 45M now and as I searched in
>> this dir, I can't find any useful files. I'm wondering is it harmful
>> to remove this dir?
>>
>> I'm using No Gnus v0.6 (2006-10-20)
>
> Usually the biggest amount comes from the agent data (~/News/agent/).
> AFAIK those date will be recreated without any loss.
>
> The following stuff comes to my mind:
>
> Not recreated:
>
> - drafts, delayed and queued articles (`nndraft-directory')
> - score files (`gnus-kill-files-directory')
> - cached articles (`gnus-cache-directory')
>
> Recreated:
>
> - marks files (`nntp-marks-directory'); recreated from ~/.newsrc.eld
> - agent data (`gnus-agent-directory'); recreated from the NNTP or IMAP
>   server?
>
> I might be a good idea to extend this list and add it to the manual.
>
> Bye, Reiner.

That clears my concerns. Thank you.

-- 
Leo