PAN problems

[Robert Meyer]

I suspect that pan is storing information about what newsgroups and messages
you've already looked at in a file in the directory.  If you modify the data
(with the windows version of pan) and don't update the tracking file, it may
just refuse to do anything since the file list and the tracking file are not in
sync.

Chances are that you're going to have to whack all of the .pan directory and
start over.  Make sure that there are no pan related files in your home
directory (such as .newsrc if it uses it) that might also be a problem.  In
fact, check .newsrc in case pan tries to update that.

Cheers!

Bob
--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just did and update to my Mandrake9.1 install.  I did not see any PAN
> updates
> so I don't believe my issue is related to the updates but if anyone else
> knows
> differently please holler.
> 
> Here is the problem.  I use PAN to read news.  I decided to download a whole
> bunch of news (and attachments) to teh default location ~/News/Pan and read
> later.
> 
> The settings for Pan are in /.pan and there are also config settings (the
> servers etc.) in .gnome/Pan/
> 
> I went to a windows PC and mapped a drive to \\server\jjneff.  Then I
> navigated
> to ~/News/Pan and was browsing the messages and images that had been saved to
> disk.  I decided to make some folders and place the images in seperate
> folders
> to keep track of them.  I did this in windows exploreer on the drive that was
> mapped as the Linux user jjneff.
> 
> I Never touched the .pan or .gnome/Pan folders!
> 
> When I disconnected and went back to my Linux box I started Pan and I got the
> first time dialog.  I made sure that .pan was in my /home path and it was.  I
> tried again and it still wanted to make a new config.  I copied .pan to
> another
> location and ran the first time wizard.  I then moved .pan back still nogo,
> none of my exisitng servers or read/unread data is there. I checked
> .gnome/Pan
> and all my servers nad passwords etc are there!!
> 
> Pan absolutely refuses to read .pan/data  - If I add a server it is added to
> my
> existing .pan/data and I can view it but the other servers sitting right next
> to it are never shown.  so a NEW .pan is NOT being created.  I removed and
> reinstalled PAN and the .pan is still not read correctly.
> 
> DId I change the permsissions somehow by creating dirs in /News/Pan??  I
> always
> thought .<program> files could just be copied back and forth.  Why is my
> existing .pan/data/not getting read -- any ideas at all are welcome.
> 
> Anyone else use PAN who can tell me the default sec settings of ~/.pan
> .gnome/PAN and ~/News/Pan ?
> 
> THANKS
> 
> JJN
> 
> 
> 
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