Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear saloonkeeper, merci beaucoup for everything you do for the LUG. All the best from sunny Perpignan! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.tarekcharara.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 24 juin 10 ? 03:45, Brian Reid a ?crit : > I've been running the LUG using the same software (MHonArc) for 18 > years, and for 18 years the job of closing out a digest volume and > opening a new one has been tedious. > > Today I closed out volume 44 and began a new volume. Part of closing > out a volume is regenerating all of the indexes so that instead of > saying > > Topic index of LUG archive for Vol 44 (Jan 2010 - ) > > they say > > Topic index of LUG archive for Vol 44 (Jan 2010 - Jun 2010) > > Not a big deal, but it is a deal. Somehow, for 18 years I have > failed to realize that if I delete one message from the archive > after closing the volume, the software will automatically regenerate > the index to close it up around the now-gone message. > > I close out volumes rarely enough that I have written down the > procedure and follow it from written notes notes every time. I have > just added to my written procedure these steps: > > * Add a junk message to the archive > * Edit the index configuration file to have the truth about dates > * Delete the junk message that you just added. > > Whew. I think I'll use the extra 2 hours that this has given me to > go take pictures of something. > > Brian Reid > LUG Saloon Keeper > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information