305584 - RSS feeds appear duplicated in RSS subscription manager and cannot be edited.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Ben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.1a2

After installing TB 1.1a2, various RSS feeds (not the items!) appear more than
once in the RSS subscription manager. My impression is that RSS feeds that I
deleted and re-added in TB 1.0 now appear as many times as I added them in the
1.0 release.

The bad thing is that those that appear duplicated cannot be edited, therefore
setting the severity to Major. Feel free to change it if necessary.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In TB 1.0x add some RSS feeds.
2. In TB 1.0x remove some RSS feeds.
3. In TB 1.0x re-add some of the RSS feeds removed in step 2.
4. Close TB 1.0x.
5. Install TB 1.1a2 and start it up.
6. Open the RSS subscription manager.

Actual Results:  
Some RSS feeds appear more than once in the list in TB 1.1a2, but not in TB
1.06. Feeds that were deleted more than once and added more than once, appear
more than twice in the RSS subscription manager (at least this is what it looks
like).

Expected Results:  
All RSS feeds should only be shown once and all RSS feeds should be editable.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Are you still seeing this in the latest builds?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I've encountered a somewhat similar situation, but I cannot reliably duplicate 
it:

With a 1.6a1 build (I think it was 0830), I added a Craig's List feed.
Subsequently, I created a subfolder of the "craig's list" folder; then I entered 
the Manage Subscriptions dialog and dragged the feed from one folder to another. 
It appeared to work.  (I *think* I did this with 1.6a1-0904, but it might have 
been with 1.5a1-0904 instead.)

However, the next time I started TB, the new items from that feed appeared in 
the original Craig's folder, not the subfolder.  On opening Manage 
Subscriptions, the feed is listed in both folders.

Two attachments coming up.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: Screenshot of Subscription Manager

This image shows how the feeds are displayed in the Manage Subscriptions
dialog.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: Feeds descriptor file

This is the feeds.rdf file that was in place when that screenshot was taken.

Comment 5

[Ben]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you still seeing this in the latest builds?
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/

Yes, I still see this in version 1.6a1 (20050907).

It is not just duplicated, is appears to be there as many time as I added the
feed (removed and added, removed and added). It even remembers the feed address
from each of them. For instance, a news feed appears four times: two have an old
feed address, two have the new feed address. MozillaZine appears twice, others
appear between two and four times.

I make this a blocking? issue, because I guess many people will encounter this
annoying problem.

Comment 6

[Ben]

Oh, almost forgotten: none of the duplicated/multiplicated feeds can be edited!

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

not a b2 stopper

Comment 8

[Ben]

(In reply to comment #7)
> not a b2 stopper

Scott, as you wish, but I assume that anyone that added, deleted and re-added a
feed in 1.0.x will get this annoying problem in 1.5. Today I tried 1.5 beta 2
and it allowed me to remove some feeds. However, after closing and re-opening
the subscription manager, empty RSS feeds appeared, i.e. ones without title and
the one I kept could not be edited anymore, nor deleted.

In a previous nightly build TB also messed up completely and I couldn't get the
RSS feeds to work at all anymore. Since I knew it was a beta, I previously made
a full backup of my profile to recover everything, but when this bug gets into
the official 1.5 release we will get many angry users.

Unless, of course, this cannot be reproduced. Has anyone reproduced this?

Comment 9

[Sander Goudswaard]

*** Bug 313924 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Sander Goudswaard]

Yes, reproduced / my bug marked duplicate. I will move to Forumzilla because of this bug.

Comment 11

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

No fix, not blocking a 1.0x security release

Comment 12

[Deanna Earley]

This still occurs on 1.5 (20051025).

Adding a new feed (same URL) creates a third entry, which can't be deleted either. When I edit the feeds, the "Store articles in" is blank.

Comment 13

[Deanna Earley]

Attachment: Screenshot of Dean's Subscription manager

Comment 14

[Deanna Earley]

This is still happening in the new 1.5 (20051201)

When i delete an item, it asks me then does nothing.
Additionally, when viewing a subscription, it wont show the folder its storing them in.

Comment 15

[Ben]

Shall I close this bug? It was a migration issue from 1.0 to 1.1 and 1.5 and it is very hard to test it now.

Comment 16

[Rolf Leggewie]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Shall I close this bug? It was a migration issue from 1.0 to 1.1 and 1.5 and 
> it is very hard to test it now.

Of course not.  As per comment 14, this is still an issue in 1.5.

(In reply to comment #14)
> This is still happening in the new 1.5 (20051201)
> 
> When i delete an item, it asks me then does nothing.

I have the same issue.

Comment 17

[Deanna Earley]

Just so you know, I (from comment #14) haven't seen this since moving to 2.0.

Comment 18

[Rolf Leggewie]

TB 2.0 is in ubuntu gutsy.  I will report back once it eventually trickles down to my machine.  I am still on edgy but intent to upgrade to feisty.  It trust this is fixed in 2.0 but ask to please leave this bug open for me to confirm.

Comment 19

[Pavel Kotrc]

(In reply to comment #17)
> Just so you know, I (from comment #14) haven't seen this since moving to 2.0.
> 

I can confirm this bug in TB 2.0.0.9 - the deleted feeds are still displayed in the RSS manager and cannot be edited.

Comment 20

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See bug 375745, which is now fixed on trunk and I guess will be in the next 
TB 2.0.x build as well.  Not quite sure if this is a dupe, but people who've been bothered by this bug should check with a nightly to see if they can still reproduce it.

Comment 21

[Rolf Leggewie]

I am on TB 2.0.0.12 now and it looks fixed to me.  Thanks, guys!  

Comment 22

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM then (though partly this is a dupe)

Comment 23

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM (FIXED is only used when known code changes resolved the issue)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#resolution