Closed Bug 309449 Opened 19 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Unable to add (subscribe to) feed again after deleting its RSS folder

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Feed Reader
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 254230

People

(Reporter: palam_rect, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

(Thunderbird version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908) )
After deleting a RSS folder from folder pane,  
when i am trying to add the same feed again,
"You already have subscription for this feed".



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add a RSS Feed
2.Delete the new RSS feed folder from right-side folder pane.
3.Add the same RSS feed again. 



Actual Results:  
I am getting error  "You already have subscription for this feed".

Expected Results:  
I expect it to add again, since i deleted that folder.
In the Steps to Reproduce, in the second step,
2.Delete the new RSS feed folder from "left"-side folder pane.
I said wrongly as right-size folder pane.

-palanic

Deleting the rss folder does not unsubscribe, just delete the folder (with
stored messages), you have to unsubscribe using the Manage Subscriptions
right-click menu item. So, I'd say this is invalid.
>> you have to unsubscribe using the Manage Subscriptions
>> right-click menu item.

I did not get the solution. After deleting the rss folder, 
I am not able to unsubscribe. The feed disappeared from 
manage subscription window. Manage subscription window 
shows the folders under "News feeds". Its not showing the
feeds under deleted folder.

I like to suggest that, whenever the user delete the rss
folder, the subscriptions under which should unsubscribed.





Ahh, spoke too soon...

See the problem now. Deleting an RSS folder seems indeed to "unsubscribe
halfways", removing the feed from subscription manager view, but still leaving
something behind so the same feed can't be added again. Moving the folder back
from trash didn't help either.

->NEW using
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050926 Thunderbird/1.4
ID:2005092605
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Probably related to bug 267082.
Same thing happens on Mac OSX - should probably be hardware/OS all.
Verified also happening in release candidate 1.
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
*** Bug 335466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 338935 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 354097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I ran into a similar problem -- or probably, the same problem with a different path to get there.  I ported a profile to a new location.  One of the feeds was a Craig's List feed, and the folder had been named with a '|' character in it, following the feed title -- which means the directory name was hashed into something else, like "craigslist 503ead".

When I restarted the program with the relocated profile, this folder appeared as that hashed-up name.  I don't remember if new items were downloaded at that point or not, since I wasn't looking for problems; but I renamed the folder.  After that, no new items, which I failed to notice until today when I was looking at the Subscribe dialog for a different reason.

And of course, I couldn't resubscribe, because of this bug.

It would be great if the Manage Subscriptions dialog could put up a node in the tree for "<floating feeds>" or something, a place to gather feeds that have subscriptions but whose folders no longer exist.  (Instead of the normal folder icon, that node should have an exclamation point icon, in red.)
Then we could simply drag the old feed into an existing folder.
Severity: normal → major
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Is there a workaround for this bug?
The workaround is to manually edit your feeds.rdf and feeditems.rdf files inside the profile Mail/News and Blogs folder to remove all references to the feed.  This can be painstaking depending on how many items you have.

You might be able to get by with just editing the feeds.rdf file but I did not try that first.
(In reply to comment #12)
> The workaround is to manually edit your feeds.rdf and feeditems.rdf files
> inside the profile Mail/News and Blogs folder to remove all references to the
> feed.  This can be painstaking depending on how many items you have.
> 
> You might be able to get by with just editing the feeds.rdf file but I did not
> try that first.
> 

the mere act of updating RSS feeds will break subscribing, as here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365192.

so even if you've fixed halfway folders etc, if you auto update all feeds on startup, you can still be broken.
Summary: Unable to add RSS again after deleting its RSS folder → Unable to add (subscribe to) feed again after deleting its RSS folder
For the record, it probably IS all hardware/all os. Getting the same bug using Ubuntu Linux. It might be a good idea for the entire RSS subscription manager and to get overhauled in the next update. There are a few other more annoying, less fatal issues in there.
Problem not fixed in 2.0.0.0 (20070326), Windows XP. 

Above workaround to edit feeds.rdf does the job, but few users will want to do that - this should be fixed as palaniappan suggested above:

"...whenever the user delete the rss folder, the subscriptions under which should unsubscribed."

This also happens if RSS subscriptions disappear (for whatever reason ...) - I cannot subscribe again (TB 2.0.0.6)
I can't re-produce the bug on the latest trunk code. Can someone give me a testcase? Thanks
is this dupe for bug 267082?
both have some activity

I can subscribe to same feed url after delete folder, but only new posts appear after deletion. funny, cannot delete second time as "a folder w t same name exists.." ha! In trash, course! hmm, maybe this is another bug ..
> is this dupe for bug 267082?

No, but they're clearly related.

> hmm, maybe this is another bug ..

It is: bug 66763
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Component: RSS → Feed Reader
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
Confirmed to persist to some extent in TB 3.0 (on OS X 10.6). At some occasions I successfully managed to readd a RSS-feed that was removed by deleting its folder, but at other occasions I failed to do so. The latter happened after I deleted a folder that had two feeds attached: one of both I could readd, but the other was rejected. Not sure if the multiple-feed character was the trigger here.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
06-10-2011 and this bug still exists in Tbird 3.1.10, Win XP-32
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