Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: How rebuild the newsitems.v50 file Message-ID: <9001151008.AA03889@uunet.uu.net> Date: 16 Jan 90 02:00:12 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 28 >Our newsitems.v50 file got clobbered somehow is there a way to rebuild it? >I created a new blank file and new items seem to be going into it ok but I >still have some newsitems in the news directories that are not showing up >and the total newsgroup message count is not correct. Any pointers from the >net would be welcomed. Thanks. The SKIM command will remove all the "orphan" text files and correctly reset the newsgroup counts. The command sequence NEWS> ADD FILE/RETRY NEWS_DEVICE:[000000...]*.ITM NEWS> SKIM will restore the "lost" item files BUT 1 - depending on the number of newsgroups you support this command could take cpu hours 2- all "restored" item entries will end up with the current date, which will cause all your readers too see these items as unread (which will not make you overly popular) I seem to remember a posting a few months ago on a more sensible way to recover these entries, but have lost it in the amazing mess I laughingly refer to as my mail folder. Geoff Huston