Akregator doesn't remember feeds

adriv · 08-31-2007, 05:45 PM

Hi,

I recently configured Akregator and put a lot of feeds in it. Strange thing is: after a reboot, all the feeds are gone!
Does anyone else have the same experience?
Or know a solution?

duryodhan · 08-31-2007, 10:10 PM

You are probably not exiting akgregator cleanly. You might wanna exit it using the File->Exit button instead of doing shutdown now -h

adriv · 09-01-2007, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

You are probably not exiting akgregator cleanly. You might wanna exit it using the File->Exit button instead of doing shutdown now -h

Which I also never did in the past...

Thanks for the reply, I'll try it.

adriv · 09-01-2007, 10:52 AM

It seems that you were right, shutting down with Ctrl + Q solves the problem. Thanks.
Weird that in the past (on SW 11) this never occurred.

duryodhan · 09-01-2007, 11:29 PM

You shut down with Ctrl+Q once, after that doing shutdown now -r would probably work. Once you do it with ctrl+q , then the feeds are saved .

adriv · 09-02-2007, 12:05 PM

Unfortunately, this is not the case. So every time I forget to shut down with Ctrl+Q (Akregator normally sits in the sys tray), all the feeds are gone.

duryodhan · 09-02-2007, 01:29 PM

aah yes .. I faced that too sometimes .... I deleted all akgregator cache and all other KDE cache (including all my histories etc. and all feeds basically deleted all of the akregator folder in .kde/share/apps )

Then reimported the feeds.. (I had backed them up earlier)

But yeah, akgregator is painful to use ..sadly its the only good one I found till now

adriv · 09-02-2007, 04:03 PM

Aha!
I've been doing some experimenting and it turns out that the feeds.opml file gets corrupted each time Akregator is shut down improperly.
I'll test some more and if I cannot get this to work the way it should, it's time for a bugreport.

duryodhan · 09-02-2007, 10:53 PM

Hey,

Does akgregator give a crash even when you quit it ?

duryodhan · 09-02-2007, 10:53 PM

Ohh and another idea ... why don't you change the perms of the feeds.opml file to Read only??

When you want to add a feed to it , give it a +w ?

adriv · 09-03-2007, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

Ohh and another idea ... why don't you change the perms of the feeds.opml file to Read only??

When you want to add a feed to it , give it a +w ?

Thanks! That solved it.

adriv · 09-03-2007, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adriv

Thanks! That solved it.

I thought...
It doesn't work. Akregator NEEDS to write to feeds.opml, apparently.
If not, you get errors about Akregator not being able to write to the file and they won't go away.

Guess I'll have to report the bug and IF this -eventually- gets solved, I'll report it here.
Thanks for the help anyway!