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folder doesn't update

zurdog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:54:06 GMT

I have several folders, and they all update fine on launch of feeddemon, yet one folder doesn't update unless I right click on it and hit update. The only difference I can see is that the folder name has a space... for example... Z Folder

The folder properties are the same with the other folders. I do have it connected to google and I"m using .45

FeedDemon seems to be using IE8

JimmerSD — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:25:22 GMT

...Even after I have uninstalled IE from my system. I'm running Windows 7 Pro, I have uninstalled IE8 with the windows uninstall utility and am using Firefox, Thunderbird and Feeddemon.

Firefox is set as my default browser, yet when I open a page that requires a password a link while inside of Feeddemon, I get the IE MS style "Do you want to save this password" nag box rather than the Firefox style bar.

This leads me to believe even though I have taken the steps to remove the vicious troll that is IE from my system it still exists to some degree. And that FD is accessing it to browse inside of FD.

When I open a link 'In a new window' it spawns a FF window outside of FD which is cool. My worries are only about browsing inside of FD.

Bueller? Bueller?

Feed Item Marked as Read When Changing to Next item

FatherCrowe — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:46:44 GMT

Hello all :D,

Apologies if this has been covered somewhere else already.

Like the new FeedDemon but one thing I don't like is there is no way to turn of a item being marked as read when you move onto the next. I liked the old set up where if clicked on a item it stayed unread unless you clicked on the envelope icon. This is handy when I wanted to quickly skim through subscriptions and come back to articles that I wanted to read all of.

Is this a permanent change or have I missed a setting somewhere to stop this??

Any comments much appreciated.

Mucho thanks, :)

Runaway thread

svott — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:57:12 GMT

Hi Nick,

I'm having a problem with FeedDemon occasionally getting carried away with CPU/memory usage. I will notice a CPU fully utilized by FeedDemon, and its memory usage slowly increasing. It happens about once a day.

One thread is responsible for the unwanted activity. I took several stack traces and all were consistent with the following:

[code]
ntdll.dll!_memcpy+0x33
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0x14b2e3
ntdll.dll!_memcpy+0x33
ntdll.dll!@RtlpReAllocateHeap@16+0x9d9
ntdll.dll!_RtlReAllocateHeap@16+0x2c5
kernel32.dll!_GlobalReAlloc@12+0x17f
FeedDemon.exe+0x941c
FeedDemon.exe+0x2a87e
FeedDemon.exe+0x2a7d4
FeedDemon.exe+0x2a8d4
FeedDemon.exe+0x2a1b8
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0xfbab0
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0xfb9bf
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0xfbe6f
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0xfc503
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0xfc82f
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0xfe2f5
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0xfeaab
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0x31daab
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0x405140
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0x4071f8
FeedDemon.exe!ExceptionManager+0x3fb0be
FeedDemon.exe!EurekaLog_CallExceptObject+0x581
FeedDemon.exe+0x32107
FeedDemon.exe+0x53da
kernel32.dll!@BaseThreadInitThunk@12+0xe
ntdll.dll!___RtlUserThreadStart@8+0x70
ntdll.dll!__RtlUserThreadStart@8+0x1b
[/code]

Maybe if you have a mapfile the module offsets will be of some use to you. I also have a WinDbg dumpfile that I saved while the issue was in progress--let me know if that is of any use to you.

This issue may be related to keir's post from two days ago, but I decided to start a new topic because my issue does not cause FeedDemon to become unresponsive. It does not affect my usage of FeedDemon, and I can cleanly exit the application without a crash or error. The funny part is that, if I can believe the available exported symbol names, the problem appears to be in response to handling a different problem !

I have not seen this issue in any previous version of FeedDemon.

FeedDemon 3.0.0.45
Windows 7 x64
Internet Explorer 8

Thanks for any support !

[FD 3.0.0.45] FeedDemon hangs and maxes out cpu

keir — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:47:50 GMT

I'm on XP Pro SP3. This has happened a few times. If I switch to the FeedDemon window I just see a blank white window because I , so I don't know what's going on. It did however once do it when I was looking at it, and the status bar looked like it was doing the sync thing, although there was no text like 'synchronizing items' or anything next to it. If I leave it for several minutes nothing changes, it stays hung and maxing out the CPU until I terminate/restart the process.

I can manually sync with no issues whatsoever, in fact it's very fast and puts little strain on the CPU. I assume that most of the automatic syncs go this smoothly too.

Missing feed entries

mfc — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:45:49 GMT

I turned off synchronization due to all the problems with that feature, but now the basic FeedDemon features don't seem to be working. One of my most active feeds that I read all the time is missing two days worth of news posts. It jumps from Tuesday to Saturday in the Show News Items view. When I log into GReader I see all the missing feed entries.

I attached an image showing that all the Monday and Sunday posts are missing. This is a feed that has maybe 50 posts per day.

What is happening to these missing posts?

I am running v3.0.0.45 on Windows XP

FeedDemon 3.0.0.45 feed sync BROKEN when enabled for GoogleReader Synchronization

guessgame — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:56:14 GMT

- version: 3.0.0.45
- Windows 7 with IE8
- one of many feeds that I am facing problem with: http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/rss.xml
- reproable everytime I install feeddemon on a machine (either work, home, etc.)

I have also read the following question in FAQ and my problem is not related to that at all:
FeedDemon FAQ: Why did upgrading to FeedDemon 3.0 delete some of my unread items?

With GoogleReader synchronization enabled, it doesn't show all feeds even when I have selected the option 'Show All'. For example, it shows only one last feed for the above feed-url. But when I remove the GoogleReader account and click 'Update All' it loads all feeds back correctly.

What is happening here? Why GoogleReader sync is refusing to load all syncs?? Any help will be appreicated.

The other url that it totally refuses to load even a single feed is: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jeffreyr/rss.aspx

Why are items being marked as read after one week?

mfc — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:20:55 GMT

I notice that items are being marked as read after only a single week even when I haven’t read them. I can’t find any settings that would control or describe this behavior. What am I missing? It doesn't seem to be based on message count since it happens even on feeds with tiny unread counts.

FeedDemon update RSS very slow

+Newbie+ — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:50:08 GMT

For your information, I've already been started using FeedDemon. But i realised that it takes a long time for it to update feed.

Eg: i subscribed to a blog and when the blog is updated, the feedreader im using previously will update very soon. perhaps within a minute. But i realised the time for feed demon to update the feed is very long. its around 1 hour. So what should i do? since this is a RSS and i think its not supposed to use such a long time to update it.

So the way i use is to go google reader and update it. When the google reader updates,then only the feed demon updates.. So if this conditon still happen, i guess i will jz use google reader directly since its more convinient and faster. I hope someone from Feed Demon can give me a reply ASAP..

Thanks!:P

'Send To' icon missing

BlackberryBlake — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:59:35 GMT

Just installed, deleted and installed. No 'send to' icon. Any thoughs?

FeedDemon, Newsgator and the news Android phones.....

JackRyanBauer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:06:19 GMT

Is there a newsgator or feeddemon app for the new android phones? I've searched the net and not found a reader that I like. I'd like something like Newsgator Go or NetNewswire that can read my synced feeds from FeedDemon to GoogleReader on my phone

Non-English font not displaying properly

efdu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:47:47 GMT

I have been using Feeddemon from a long time now and am quite happy with the product.

However, off late, I have found two problems with the product (or my configuration) which is not getting resolved no matter what I do (including re-installing Feeddemon after OS reinstall).

[u]Background[/u]
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Feeddemon - 3.0.0.45

[u]Problem description[/u]

The font for non-English feed show as junk in Feeddemon even though the font is installed on the machine and shows properly in browsers. A screen image for this (Feeddemon-Error2.jpg ) is attached as example of this. The subscription refers to (http://feeds.feedburner.com/GujaratSamachar/News/Gujarat/AhmedabadNews). If it helps, the font used for this (shruti..ttf / gopika.ttf) is available at (http://www.gujaratsamachar.com/beta/shruti.ttf / http://www.gujaratsamachar.com/Gopika.ttf)

Any help in resolving this will be very helpful.

This was working earlier. It has stopped from past few releases though.

Do Clippings folders synch?

khristopher — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:50:18 GMT

Do clippings folders synch with Google Reader? I got a new computer, and installed FeedDemon, and everything else synched, except for my clippings folders.

Embedded videos not showing up

khristopher — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:57:06 GMT

Videos embedded in posts are not being picked up.

I'm using FeedDemon version 3.0.0.41
IE version 8.0.6001.18702
I am syncing with Google Reader. It's happening in more than one feed that I commonly view videos in.
The option to view embedded videos and content is checked.

Startup screen position

DanielB — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:41:33 GMT

Hi everyone,

I run FeedDemon on Win 7 and generally it just works great. However, I have the windows task bar vertically on the left screen side and whenever I start FeedDemon it pops up right behind the taskbar so I always have to drag it to the right to see it completely. This happens on every start so it doesn't remember the screen position and size on close.

Nick, I you could fix this little thing I'm more than happy. Great software..

Daniel

First day of the week hardcoded in newspaper filter

to8219 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:39:15 GMT

Background: Dutch regional settings with Monday as the first day of the week.

When setting the newspaper filter to this week on a Sunday with the above regional setting, no items of the current week are shown. This seems to be a regional assumption of FD hardcoded rather than taken from the OS's regional settings.

By way of related feature request, could a filter be added for the last 7 days, irrespective of week delineation?

OS: Windows 7 x64 RTM.

Missing the old link-opening behaviour

Don Reba — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:53:12 GMT

In FeedDemon 2, I could open links in new tabs using Ctrl-Click or in new windows using Shift-Click — same as in regular IE. However, FeedDemon 3 opens links only in new windows, when the "open external links in default browser" option is set, and only in new tabs, otherwise. Either way is very inconvenient: I dislike waiting for a new window to open just to expand some article, and I miss the full browser's functionality when doing anything more involved. I need to be able to choose on a per-case basis, whether I want to open a link inside FeedDemon or outside it.

Using FeedDemon 3.0.0.37, Vista x86 SP2, IE8.

Feeddemon shows content twice for many feeds

efdu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:41:07 GMT

I have been using Feeddemon from a long time now and am quite happy with the product.

However, off late, I have found two problems with the product (or my configuration) which is not getting resolved no matter what I do (including re-installing Feeddemon after OS reinstall).

[u]Background[/u]
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Feeddemon - 3.0.0.45

[u]Problem description[/u]

I am using Newspaper Style Prince. After updating feeds, when I click on any item, I get the content displayed twice for many subscriptons. A screen image for this (Feeddemon-Error1.jpg and Feeddemon-3.jpg ) is attached as example of this. You will see that "Why SMSing can be a pain." is displayed twice next to each other in Feeddemon-1.jpg whereas each post is shown twice in Feeddemon-3.jpg.

This happens for many other feeds and is very irritating.

Any help in resolving this will be very useful.

Quicktime update dialog locks up FeedDemon 3.0.0.45

jmetzner — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:09:48 GMT

As can be seen in the attached screenshot, I was reading one of my feeds this morning and the QuickTime updater dialog came up. FeedDemon continued to load feeds in the background, but the updater dialog didn't respond to clicks, and I couldn't do anything in FD's UI and I had to kill it from Task Manager. Oddly, when I run the separate "Apple Software Update" program it doesn't list any updates, and if I go to the web page for this feed in IE8 I do not get the message. Is there a workaround for this?

Feeddemon 3.0 is awful

isolated1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:16:28 GMT

Ever since feeddemon was updated to 3.0 and uses google reader, it freezes and crashes constantly. Its always nagging me to mark everthing as read, nearly every day. It is completely unstable now. It almost locks up my entire system quite a lot, and I have a q6600 with 4 gigs of ram. Please can you make it perform as it did when newsgator online? I may have to search for an alternative rss reader. I love feeddemon, but the changes make it nearly unusable.

Mobile FeedDemon/Google

Fairwind — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:31:53 GMT

When FeedDemon synced with Newsgator aggregator, I was able to set up a subset of my feeds that I was able to use on my PDA. Since we have shifted to Google; I can not find a way to set up a subset of the feeds.

Is there a was to do that now that the RSS feeds are aggregated through Google?
Howard

Feedstation cause my internet connection to drop

ndv — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:48:40 GMT

I am sure this is no longer a weird coincidence. I have noticed that, 8 times out of 10, my internet connection drops soon after downloading podcasts from within Feeddemon, using the built in Feedstation. I initiate the download by clicking the paperclip icon on a feed topic from within Feeddemon.

Normally my internet connection is rock solid but on these occasions it just quits out - all email and web traffic fails. I restart my router, redownload the podcasts using Feedstation and it works fine the second time around.

I have observed this for over a year and a half and have decided to post it in the hope that it is a recognised issue and that a possible workarond could be offered (a quick search on this forum suggested that it has not been noticed).

I have had this happen on Vista (32 bit); I am now using Windows 7 32 bit. Feeddemon/Feedstation 3.0.0.41.

Any clues?

Thanks

Andrew

"Open in external browser" has no effect from newspaper

Jay Levitt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:40:25 GMT

I'm still using FD old-school, with a separate "news items" pane. That means my newspaper has only one item in it at a time; it's essentially a lightweight pre-fetched article reader.

When I use the keyboard shortcut for "Open in external browser", FeedDemon doesn't respond if the newspaper is displayed; it only works if there's an actual web page in the browser pane. Suspicion: This has been broken since you started removing the news item pane in early 3.0, because it wouldn't make sense to open a full newspaper in the external browser... but could you let it work if there's only one article showing?

Selecting Multiple Items

deanrmorrison — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:23:18 GMT

I like to bulk select items Newspaper view in which to either Star or Tag a number of items. It would be good if there was a way in which you could select multiple items in order to Star, Tag, etc.

can't auto-download enclosures from NPR podcasts

sre — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:29:31 GMT

Just installed FeedDemon 3.0.0.45, running Vista with MSIE 8...

The problem seems to be true for all the NPR podcasts I've tried. Here's an example

Feed URL http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510221

Homepage URL http://www.sciencefriday.com/?ft=2&f=510221

When I view the feed, the links all work (I have it configured to open external links in my browser) and there are MP3 filenames next to the Download button. Clicking Download works. I get a file of the same name in the folder I told FeedDemon to use. Cool. But when I check FeedProperties>Advanced>Automatic nothing happens.

I've tried telling FeedStation to get files as soon as possible and at a scheduled time. Nothing.

Any ideas where to look? My goal is to gather up a bunch of MP3's to listen to while I'm out of town. Doesn't do me any good to listen to them on my PC. They need to live on an SD card that travels with me. I want all the enclosures (podcast MP3 files) for all the items in the feed to be downloaded automatically. I don't want to have to visit every day and click download for every one of them.

PS: The "validate" function does indicate problems... but everything works and looks fine elsewhere.

FTAO Nick Harris: Final stable download version of Inbox

Highlander22 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:11:47 GMT

Hi Nick Harris (or the kind person who can give this to Nick),

Sorry to hijack this forum for this post, but I have been a user of NG Inbox for over a year and need the latest stable build for NG Inbox before it was withdrawn...and this is about the only forum that is still open.

I am currently on 3.0.526 and know that there were later (stable) builds that fixed problems like http://forum.newsgator.com/Topic39717-1-1.aspx?Highlight=3.0.536 which I am experiencing (and the link within that thread no longer works).

I would greatly appreciate it if a viable link to the latest stable version of NG Inbox could be posted...or even sent to me direct.

Thanks and regards

Highlander22

Empty space after display resolution change

iDreamer — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:18:03 GMT

Hi Nick,

I encountered the following (see attachment) after my display resolution changed menwhile (ie due to Remote Desktop, or a full window game), using 3.0.0.45 on Windows 7 x86.

Can you see this, too?

Thanks!
iDreamer

Minimize through mouse button assignment is not working

lybrand — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:03:21 GMT

I have Microsoft mouse and assigned one of the buttons "minimize" action. When I use that button the whole window just becomes very small (just title bar is showing and positioned on top of "start" button).

100% reproducable and have been an issue with every release so far, including latest one.

Screencast is here http://screenr.com/pVB

Some items don't show even after update

rjohnston3 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:19:01 GMT

I subscribe to two feeds (that I know of) that post several items a day. Every day, only one or two out of four items show in FeedDemon.

I can see the items in the raw feeds.

The feeds worked fine in 2.7, but haven't worked in 3.0, up to and including 3.0.0.45.

The feeds are:

http://www.quotationspage.com/data/mqotd.rss

http://feeds.feedburner.com/quotationspage/qotd

Thanks!

...Ralph Johnston

'clippings / shared items / starred items' sync lost coherence ...

BlackCat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:59:26 GMT

Before 3.0, Clippings were synced between NNW and FD

With 3.0
- FD only have shared items
- NNW and NNW for iphone only have starred items
- Google reader see both

So for now, it seems there is no bookmark-like shared between the 3 clients ... seems like a real pain to me ...

any fix planned ?

thanks

[Feature request] Add icon overlay when news arrive in Windows 7

edddy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:42:20 GMT

A small icon with the amount of news unread would be great (ala iPhone), but a little icon telling that there is something new is ok too.

You can do it in 10 minutes ([url=http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-II-Icon-Overlay/]Acording with this video[/url]) :)

'my clippings' removed?

drb — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:49:41 GMT

Is 'my clippings' removed from the final release?

I have been installing over and over with updates of several releases. I always have 'my clippings'. Even with the current release I see it.

Just wondering, if it has been removed completely or not. As GR doesn't sync 'my clippings'.

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Problems with videos.

Octopus — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:48:13 GMT

[b]Hi,

Since installing Windows 7 have trouble viewing the videos of the posts.

I enclose a picture of what I think.

Anybody can help me?

Thanks in advance. Greetings.

Version of FeedDemmon: 3.0.0.45
O.S.: Windows 7 Ultimate
Version of Internet Explorer: 8.0
Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials
[/b]

[img]http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3895/imagefeeddemon.png[/img]

Maximum number of items you can keep

frank — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:36:44 GMT

The maximum items you can keep seems to be 2500. I have just started using FeedDemon to collect twitters message and I can easily have 2500 items in about 20days. Is there any option to remove this restriction i.e. set it to unlimited?

Thanks

[FD 3.0.0.45] Language file problem

Jedi — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:17:51 GMT

Hi,

In 3.0.0.45, both <![CDATA[<b>Archiving</b> <a href="help:autopurge">(?)</a>]]> become <![CDATA[<b>Archiving</b></a>]]>. Are those two </a>s are forgot to delete, or the help:autopurge href mis-deleted?

Best,

Feature Request: Enclosure's Filename

jhoeforth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:04:37 GMT

Please make the default filename of downloaded enclosures to the podcasts title, or at least add the metadata to the file itself. It's hard to identify them when you've downloaded multiple files. Please. :)

Request adding capability of using a sync file rather than Google sync

dhays — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:38:23 GMT

As a long time user of FD (back when I had to part with some money to get a copy), I'm finding that, at least for me, the Google synchronization does not work.

While I can tweak FD somewhat, I can't tweak Google ;~) The problem for me is I rely on timely information and, as I understand it, Google refreshes the feed slower than I need. I can readily understand Google having to go out and grab the latest, with as many users as they serve, it's got to be a real chore--feed updates are at the mercy of Google and not the user.

I would rather get my updates directly (if necessary, giving each feed a time to poll - every hour, every 6 hours, etc.) and know my feed list is up to date.

Therefore, instead of using Google to sync, I would really like to be able to write a "sync" file to a flash drive and be able to use both home and work copies of FD and be in sync. I can see FD writing a sync file upon exiting and reading a sync file upon starting, thereby capturing the last known state.

The "home" of the sync file could be on a flash drive, as I said above, or on a server somewhere in the cloud, or, by using FTP, saved on a web server.

By doing this, FD remains in sync, no matter where I am and I can direct the updating of feeds for each subscription.

So consider this begging for a addition to FD. All else being equal, FD has many fine features that I hate to give up, but Google sync doesn't work for me.

Language file does not function with FD 3.0.0.44

muntealb — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:05:22 GMT

I updated the romanian language file and loaded it in the latest version of FD. All the romanian diacritics (Ă Î Ş Ţ) are displayed completely wrong, although they are shown correctly when opening the language file in a text editor.

The language file is attached to the message.

Request For Mouse Gestures

jon abad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:49:45 GMT

Hi, I would like to make a request for mouse gestures to be added to the newspaper view.

This feature would help speed up viewing as well as, possibly better than, the already great keyboard shortcut support.

This would help with tablet or touch situations as well. I know there are some IE Plugins that provide this functionality, so i don't know if those can be re-used or otherwise leveraged.

Thanks and keep up the good work.
Jon

ANN: FeedDemon 3.0.0.44

Nick Bradbury — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:39:16 GMT

FeedDemon v3.0.0.44 is now available. For details on changes and fixes in this build, please refer to the release notes. Or skip all that, and just download it right away :)

This build offers much better sync performance - especially when you have a lot of tags - and features a new "Recommendations" report which shows recommended feeds and articles (as described here).

Simply install this build directly on top of your previous version (there's no need to uninstall first).

Update: The download has been updated to v3.0.0.45 to correct a problem involving FeedDemon translations.

Enjoy!