Re: Pending operations won't execute

[tb@ldwin.net]

Thanks for the help, Erik. In the end, I was able to purge the operations by
selecting 'n' when asked if I wanted to execute them, then opting to delete
them in the subsequent sub-dialogue. Obvious in hindsight, had I known of the
sub-dialogue. I still have the issue, however, that when I select one
particular directory, I get the error message:

Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

and can't navigate within that directory. I had assumed that this related to
the unexecuted operations, but it turns out this wasn't the case. Any ideas of
what might be causing this, or suggestions of how to update the index for that
directory to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance,


Tim

At Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:19:16 -0800,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> At Sat, 01 Nov 2014 23:17:23 +1100,
> tb@ldwin.net wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have been an avid user of wanderlust for a couple of years now, after
> > migrating across from mew, but recently experiencing a curious problem that I
> > can't seem to fix. I have one particular directory which has 2 pending
> > operations in it, but whenever I try to go to the folder, smtp tries to flush
> > the actions and fails, returning the following argument:
> > 
> > Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> > 
> > Similarly, when I try toggling the plug status, I get a message to say that
> > there are 2 operations pending and a dialogue to ask if I want to execute them,
> > but then a message saying that 0/2 operations were performed
> > successfully. Because I can't navigate into the affected folder, I have no way
> > of checking what the operations are from within emacs, and no relevant
> > messages are displayed in the *Messages* buffer. Also, I can't view other
> > messages in the affected folder (the folder view won't scroll, and I can't
> > display any of the messages for that folder). Any suggestions as to how to
> > fix/diagnose the problem?
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Queued refile/delete/etc operations are stored in ~/.elmo/queue, and
> unsent message are stored in the folder defined in the variable
> wl-queue-folder. Sometimes you can get an invalid operation in your
> queue (e.g., a refile to a server that does not exist). When this has
> happened to me I have toggled disconnected operation (M-t M-t) to
> flush all (successful) operations, then quit WL and removed the
> ~/.elmo/queue file (after first checking it).
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> best, Erik
> 
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