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#38 Add info to newsrc...

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nobody
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2006-06-06
2006-06-06
Kagehi
No

Either that or provide some other kind of better
export. Currently the file only keeps track of what you
are subscribed to and how many you have read. Silly
little things like:

1. The name you use for the server.
2. The server itself.
3. Settings for that server.
4. Dozens of other $#$@#$ things you need to set it up
on a new machine.

Are all non-exportable. I just got through spending
time trying to get all my news groups set back up
again, because I couldn't remember what the servers
where, what names I originally used for them, etc.
Simply copying the directory over does no good, because
Gravity stores all this stuff not in an .ini or some
place else you can import into a new installation, but
in a bloody mess of registry keys. If something major
happened, like my HD failing, it would be literally
impossible for me to recover the original settings or
even, in one case, get the right server set up, because
none of its is in something you can do a backup of.

This is one goofy issue with Gravity that has caught me
flat footed at least 3 times now. It really doesn't
make sense to me that the export never including the
"basic" information needed to actually import the same
stuff into another system.

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