279737 - RSS subscriptions problem if items.rdf and itemfeeds.rdf in profile root

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278560

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Yuxuan Wang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

I've installed trunk build yesterday, and then 1.0 back again.
Then there's nothing in my RSS Subscriptions dialog, but the rss
directories(that is, the downloaded rss feeds) are still there.
When I try to add a new subscription, Thunderbird hangs at the downloading of
the last feed(5/5, 10/10, etc.)
Thunderbird will still download the feeds I subscripted before(but I can't see
the subscriptions) on time. But I've set "display summary instead of show web
page" before, Thunderbird still show the web page of the newly downloaded feeds.
Then I deleted the "News & Blogs" account and recreate it, but still hangs at
the downloading of the last feed.
Then I find that there's a empty feeditems.rdf and feeds.rdf file in the profile
root directory(should in <ProfileRoot>\Mail\News & Blogs). Delete them, and add
subscriptions, it's OK now.
But I recreated the 2 file, and I can still add subscriptions correctly. I don't
know the extract relate between the 2 file and the rss subscription function.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1

[parish]

I see this too with a trunk build from 2005-01-13

After adding feeds, exit, then restart TB and the Manage subscriptions window is
blank.

Also, changing the state of the "Show the article summary instead of loading the
web page" has no effect - the behaviour is always how the checkbox was set when
the feed was subscribed to.

feeditems.rdf and feeds.rdf _are_ in the Mail/News & Blogs directory here, not
in the profile root as the reporter sees.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278560 ***