257700 - Dragging feed to a new folder (Subscribe dialog) fails to update feeds.rdf (and original folder's MSF)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 709247

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Seen using Tbird 0.8 - 20040830

STR:

1. Drag and drop an RSS feed into your RSS account. For this test we were using
livejournal.com.
2. Refresh the feed once using the context menu. Observe that the feed refreshes
with no problem.
3. Create a new folder. Drag the livejoural.com RSS feed into that folder.
4. The feed no longer refreshes.

Tracy and I tested this on Windows, Mac and Linux all with the same result. The
same thing happens if you drag the RSS link and nest it under another RSS link.

Not sure what the behavior is supposed to be here, but wanted to document this.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255453 ***

Comment 2

[Bryan Mills]

This shouldn't be a dupe -- it's got different behaviour from the bug it's duped
to, AND whereas that bug appears to be fixed, this one is still a problem on
Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Yes, I can confirm that I still see this bug in Thunderbird version 1.5 Beta 2
(20051011).  If I follow the steps listed in my original report the delicious
feed I used does not refresh. Once I drag it out of the folder, it refreshes
fine. Reopening bug. Bryan: Which platform did you see this on?

Comment 4

[Rodrigo M. Fombellida]

I have the same problem with Thunderbird 1.5 (20051025) in GNU/Linux 
I have observed than when I move a feed to another directory, the msf file associated to this feed is not moved correctly to the new directory. It creates an empty msf file.
I have tried to move the msf file manually instead of drag & drop in TBird and it worked fine.

Comment 5

[Rodrigo M. Fombellida]

(In reply to comment #4)

I have tested the same with the nighty build Thunderbird 1.6a1 (20051212) and the msf file is now moved correctly when drag & drop. But "feeds.rdf" is not updated correctly. The <fz:destFolder> element is not updated:

Before drag & drop is:
<fz:destFolder RDF:resource="mailbox://nobody@News%20%26%20Blogs/ontv"/>

After drag & drop SHOULD BE:
<fz:destFolder RDF:resource="mailbox://nobody@News%20%26%20Blogs/NEW_FOLDER/ontv"/>

After making this manual change the feed began to refresh again in its new folder.

Comment 6

[zee]

i too have been having a problem related to this bug: i have numerous rss feeds, each which i have under a seperate sub folder. the problem is that tbird by default selects the folder, and not the first message in the folder. you hit delete, and it throws the folder in the trash. you curse, you move the folder back to its proper location. sometimes it still gets feeds at this point, but what is interesting is that a. its not in the feed manager anymore b. it then will download the entire feed, and not just the header. to fix it, the only way i have found is to delete and re add to the feed manager.

i think the base of this problem is that moving an rss feed folder basically removes it from the rss manager. realistically it should update the rss manager. in the event that it is put into the trash, it should also update, and when moved back. when it is actually deleted from the trash, that is when it should be removed from the rss manager. -OR- the rss manager should be made independent of the folder system. if you move a folder, you need to tell the rss manager to push new posts to that folder, or it will automatically create a folder and feed to it.

Comment 7

[Pietro Franchi]

This bug is still valid for me, TB 1.5 20060112 in Linux. Changing in feeds.rdf as described in comment #5 solves the issue. 

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yeah, I see it too.

Comment 9

[zee]

as of windows version 1.5 when you hit delete, you are prompted 'are you sure?' as far as i am concerned, this issue is resolved.

Comment 10

[deoren]

I too have run across this issue.  To clarify I have found this error in 1.5 and even with the trunk nightly from 02/17/2006.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=368176
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426734.html

I had noticed that "organized" feeds were no longer being updated, and also that exporting all feeds to an OPML file gave the results mentioned in those threads.

Comment 11

[Sig]

I confirm this bug too. I have tens of feeds in TB but as soon as I organize them into custom folders, they stop being updated. The work-around mentioned in comment #5 works for me, more or less.

Comment 12

[Sebastian Redl]

And same here. Can we bump the importance to major? It effectively "loses" the feeds for all non-technical persons that want to organize their feeds into folders, and it is present in a release version.

Comment 13

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I have tested the same with the nighty build Thunderbird 1.6a1 (20051212) and
> the msf file is now moved correctly when drag & drop. But "feeds.rdf" is not
> updated correctly. The <fz:destFolder> element is not updated:

The MSF is "moved"?  I don't think that's quite right; rather, the feed info is copied into the new MSF.  I'm also seeing the feed information persist in the original folder's MSF; and when I reopen the Subscribe dialog after dragging, I see the feed listed under both folders.  I think that in this case, the original folder continues to get the feed info.

If the original folder is then deleted, people (such as 'zee' in comment 6) end up with the problem of bug 309449.

Comment 14

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #13)
> I'm also seeing the feed information persist in the original folder's MSF; 
> and when I reopen the Subscribe dialog after dragging, I see the feed 
> listed under both folders.  I think that in this case, the original folder
> continues to get the feed info.

I've confirmed this; the original folder does continue getting the new items.

Comment 16

[Pádraig Brady]

Me too. I was wondering why some people were so quiet. mutter...

Comment 17

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This appears to be working on trunk.  I tried dragging a feed item between folders, and the new messages for the feed are arriving in that folder.
TB 3.0a1pre (2008021703), Win2K.

Comment 18

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #17)
> This appears to be working on trunk.  I tried dragging a feed item between
> folders, and the new messages for the feed are arriving in that folder.
> TB 3.0a1pre (2008021703), Win2K.

so no one still sees this problem and it should be closed?