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Question: How to open in browser in background?

grunwald2.0 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:46:11 GMT

Hi there,

I don't know if I missed it or if there is a manual for FD (would love one, even though I know FD good), but [b]I found nowhere an option to make the "Open in new window" a background operation[/b] (like "Open new browsers tabs in...") so I could continue to surf / read through my other FD news items?! I think this is a pretty basic & important feature! It could be that it works like that when I configure FD to open every item in the browser, but why then use FD? So I didn't try that.

Another thing I'm wondering, [b]why aren't items marked as read when opened in a new tab or the external/standard browser?[/b] I can't work with feeds properly if I have to mark them read manually! Yet "auto-mark as read after x seconds / scrolling" is no option for me either - who uses such a strange feature? O.o [b]I just want it to (auto-)mark what I actually clicked on - not more not less![/b]

Thanks for you help in advance...

FeedDemon 3.0 only shows 20 new items per feed - cannot adjust?

uptight_exec — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:18:16 GMT

Ok, I could be a complete moron. But cannot, for the life of me, figure this out, and a search of this forum didn't turn up anything on point.

When I start FeedDemon 3.0, it checks the feeds and then displays the number of unread items per feed (duh). But for each feed, the MAX number of unread items it will show is twenty (20). Huh? I can check the blog manually, and I see items that extend beyond the 20 that FeedDemon displays

Went into options, and couldn't find anything that adjusts this (items displayed per page is 40, prefetch items are 1000). Went into Feed Properties for each feed, and there weren't any options in there that would affect this either.

I'm sure there is an easy solution, and I'm just being slow/moronic, but it's now officially driving me nuts.

Any help would be appreciated!

thx,

--Dennis

Marked as read before I read them?

BruceHamilton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:21:54 GMT

I'm noticing that some items that I have not read are being marked as read by FeedDemon. Is there some limit to the number of unread items I can accumulate? Or is there some time limit after which FeedDemon decides that the unread items are now old and must not be worth reading and should be marked as read?

One feed in particular has 15 or so items that I have yet to read and every day I see that most or all of these are changed from unread to read. I change them back to unread and in a few hours or by the next day they are marked as read again. I finally decided the only way I could "save" them from being washed away was to Star them and this is working. But sometimes I forget to do this and items that I wanted to read are now in the mass of items that are marked as read.

Is there a setting somewhere I can change to up the threshold or time limit? Or is this happening for some other reason I can't identify but may make perfect sense?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Bruce

Suggestion: Allow 1 in "# items to display per page"

valamas — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:06:03 GMT

Hello,

Under options / reading tab. There is a setting "# items to display per page".

The minimum value allowed is 2. Could this be lowered to 1 please?

This would allow me to keep clicking next page button and see the next feed item in the same subscription without scrolling.

thank you,

Mike

Color options removed?

IgwanaRob — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:52:42 GMT

How can I change the background color of the Subscription list? The option seems to have been removed, and only a color theme drop-down with few options is there now.

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.

Favicon Favicons

ppng — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:33:47 GMT

I am coming back to FeedDemon as feedreader version 3.14 is quite bad at managing favicons and makes all my feeds look the same.

I have a few questions about favicons in FeedDemon:

1/ A favicon may show in FeedDemon 3.0 in front of a feed, but when I go to Google Reader, it shows the default favicon. Don't you also synchronize feed favicons?

Looks are very important, and having feed-specific favicons can improve a lot the user experience.
So it is confusing to have the right favicon in FeedDemon and not in Google Reader.

2/ Could you explain how FeedDemon picks up the favicon in front of feeds. Do you just use the homepageURL and try to fetch the icon from there?

I tried to override that logic by making a feed with the < icon > tag sub-element of < feed > as described in the atom spec [url=http://atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#optionalFeedElements]http://atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#optionalFeedElements[/url]
But it seems that the favicon is still fetched from the homepage URL.

Could you explain me one way to build a feed that forces FeedDemon to fetch the favicon somewhere else than the homepage URL? I really need this.

3/ In the bottom left corner of each favicon in FeedDemon, there is a small blue RSS logo.
What is this for? Can it be removed so as to see the full favicon?

Real time sync FeedDemon Google Reader

ppng — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:54:44 GMT

Sync with Google Reader is great, but could you make it real time?

What I mean by real time is this: no need to press the "Resync now" button. If I have both FeedDemon and Google Reader windows opened, marking an item unread in FeedDemon would immediately mark it unread in Google Reader (same principle as getting a new email in Gmail) and vice versa.

Detailed Watch Search

phdogan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:40:38 GMT

Is there a way to use Boolean logic to filter a watch search. For example: If I wanted to know about minor league pitching prospects for the chicago cubs--I would want an article that cites both "Cubs" and "Minor league" and one of the following terms "pitching", "prospect" or "pitcher."

Is there any way to further the complexity of a watch's filter?

Automatically rename downloaded enclosure

jhoeforth — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:15:43 GMT

Is there a way to do this? I am using Feedstation as my podcatcher and that's the only missing piece. Thanks.

RC1 global folder/feed duplication when synced to Greader

CybertrustOH — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:12:52 GMT

Environment:

FD 3.0.0.22 RC1

IE 8 (IE7 when Rc1 ws installed)

Windows XPSP3, AMD Turion 64 (Windows is 32-bit), 2 Gb RAM

Upon syncing with Greader the first time every folder and every feed, except one, was duplicated. For example, I now have two "Favorite Channels" folders, one with a blue dot icon, and one without. The one with the blue icon seems to be staying in sync with Greader.

I had a large number of folders/feeds/items when I started, but now after duplication, and after running the Cleanup Wizzard, with default settings, I have: 81 folders, 3,537 feeds, 236,922 items, 138,996 unread items, 34 flagged items and 3712 tagged items.

Performance was significantly degraded. I had only run Cleanup once before yesterday and that was when I first started using version 2. I wish I'd taken the statistics before I ran Cleanup, but I didn't think to.

I like the ability to keep items. However after installing RC1 and syncing Greader, performance was so bad, FD would only open if I shut down every other program. Then it would take 20 min plus just to get FD to open and begin checking feeds. It would frequently freeze for 10-30 seconds. HD activity was almost solid during FD startup and when checking feeds. I could run other programs after FD was open and then go back to FD. The other programs were not freezing.

FeedDemon became unusable with the freezing so I decided to use Cleanup to reduce the size of everything and see if performance improved. It did, but it still freezes, but less frequently and for shorter times (~22 sec while I typed this sentence). If I go offline, it won't freeze.

If I go to the folders w/o the blue dot and try to move those feeds to the folders with the blue dot's, I get "a feed with this title already exists in the selected folder." If I re-name the folder, I get the same error. Neither can I move them from blue-dot to w/o-dot.

The one exception to this whole issue is the single folder I was syncing to Newsgator before syncing to Greader. Because I have so many feeds, folders and items, I had restricted my Newsgator syncing to one folder with one feed. I just don't get much out of using Newsgator. That folder/feed was not duplicated.

The ideal outcome would be to fix this and I'd restore from my pre-RC1 backup.

What I'll probably try next is to restore from the pre-RC1 backup and then sync all my folders with Newsgator and then try syncing with Greader again.

I'm mostly reporting this as a beta issue versus looking for a fix. I understand I'm not close to an average FD users.

Cheers.

Downloading files from feeds automatically

tojacks — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:53:21 GMT

I'm using FeedDemon/FeedStation 3.0 and all previously added sites download files (mp3s and such) every day just fine, however, the two feeds that i have added more recently do not show up anywhere. I have the correct settings checked in properties (at least i think i do), but still nothing gets queued from the newly added sites and no folder is created for them to be stored in, should they ever download. any thoughts?

RSS Feeds in IE8

CWBillow — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:58:37 GMT

I've got both Firefox (3.54) and IE8, and I'm using FD 3.

If I come across an RSS (orange link) on a web page in Firefox, and I click it, FF politely asks where I want to load it, I select FD, and it pus in all the info.

If I do the same thing in IE, it seems that I only have 2 choices: read it in IE, or forget it -- oh yeah, I can copy the link and enter it manually.

Am I doing something all wrong here, or forgetting something? Is thee a way to make this process more streamlined? I had tried the toolbar sometime back, but it didn't seem to really resolve anything...

I've got to be doing something wrong here I know, because I cannot believe that such a great program wouldn't have a resolution for this.

What can/should I do here? Any help will be greatly appreciated...

Regards,
Chuck Billow

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.

Google Synchronize Problem

jalapela — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:34:25 GMT

Hello,i'm start useing Google reader with feeddemon.Feeddemon synchronize with Google Reader.iwas import the links to Google.Then connect with Feeddemon.When i delete the post in the Feeddemon, Google cant delete it.so when i press F5 to update same feed download again.what sould i do now?can anybody help me?
thanks...

Prefetching Watches

Jures — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:47:58 GMT

I was wondering if it is possible to prefetch only the Watch results?

Problem with some twitter links

yarondav — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:26:11 GMT

Hi,

On some links in twitter feeds, when FeedDemon converts them to clickable links there is an error, and a closing tag is embedded into the link's address.

I think that it only happens when the link is at the end of the tweet, and not somewhere inside the message (which can explain the div).

I also think that it happens only (or mostly) on messages that aren't in English. Well, the feed's field does state en-us, but most of the message is encoded characters in another language (esp. Hebrew in the cases I encountered).

Something like "http://bit.ly/Fake" will be displayed on screen as "http://bit.ly/Fake", but will have an anchor tag of "http://bit.ly/Fake%3C/div%3E" (which affects the displated information on the status bar in FeedDemon, and of course the link that the browser will try to open when I click it).

If you don't find any cause based on this description I can provide a feed where it happened recently (so the items are still there)

Printing Bug

pd — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:46:04 GMT

I have upgraded to FD3 (and bought a license, thanks Nick).

I have discovered a possible bug when printing newspapers. If I print a newspaper, it drops the last line of text from each page. The printout is otherwise fine, except for the one dropped line. Depending on the situation, it sometimes prints just the very top of the characters on the last line.

If I go to the article on the site, from within FD, and print the page it prints fine. Printing from other browsers and outside of FD works fine, so I don't think it's the printer configuration or driver. I never experienced this problem with 2.7.

Pictures won't show up

jerseyjezebel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:56:29 GMT

I started using FeedDemon again after about a few months, and none of my feeds would update. I switched to Google Reader synchronization, and ever since then my pictures will not show up on any feed I have. I tried re-downloading and re-installing FeedDemon, to no avail. I don't have anything checked off in the options that disables picture loading. I have all the requirements. I've also noticed that when I click on a headline, the article doesn't load, either. Trying to subscribe to some feeds doesn't work. The program hangs and says it can't automatically detect the feed. These are popular blogs, too.

When I went to check to see if I had the requirements, I noticed that I have two instances of IE7 on my computer. One is regular, and one says 64-bit. I run 64-bit Vista. I'm wondering if there is some kind of problem with this. Does anybody know what's going on? It's driving me crazy!

FeedDemon 3.0.0.29 - Compact -> 100% fragmentation

sasdad — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:16:16 GMT

Hi Nick,

compact feature is causing 100% fragmentation and journal file is not "deleted". I tried to compact the DB with external program and FeedDemon showed 0% fragmentation and no error. But then I tried to compact the DB with FeedDemon and 100% fragmentation was back.

Thanks
Petr

Feature Request - Mass Change in passwords option

GrnGremlin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:06:41 GMT

One thing I always liked about NewsGator Inbox was the ability to edit multiple feeds at once - Primarily the ability to change the password on multiple feeds at once. Since I use this in a work setting I have a large number of feeds for our social networking tool that requires a login for each feed. We also require quarterly password changes so having this option would be a great timesaver during these events.

Thanks

How to keep news that's been read?

spatt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:23:41 GMT

*edited*
geez.how come I don't notice that.silly me.thanks Mr.Alan!

FeedDemon 3.0.0.41 sometime cannot minimized and still no reminder when new messages arrived

ymray — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:36:56 GMT

FeedDemon 3.0.0.41 sometime cannot minimized
still no reminder when new messages arrived
panic button appear twice whenever it works
why it comes so badly??
before 3.0.0.38, it look fine and no such terrible things come out...

FD3.0.0.41 Right-clicking on a folder

Alan Palmer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:21:31 GMT

This is a (very) minor feature request. I'll often go through some of my folders that contain high-frequency feeds marking them as read, relying on watches to pick up items of particular interest. I'll right-click on the folder and choose 'Mark folder read'. However, with other folders I'll want to see which particular feeds have unread items, and have found that I'll accidentally still right-click. Would it be possible to add 'Expand folder' to the context menu?

Finding My Old FD Serial Number

Fairwind — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:15:54 GMT

I purchased my FD in the early 2.x timeframe and can't find the piece of paper the confirmed the purchase and contained the serial number to unlock things. Now when I try to get into purchase a 'No Ad" version, I'm asked for my serial number.

Can you tell me where to look in my current installation to find my serial number?
Thanks,
Howard

3.0B4 - Any chance of adding ReadItLater integration to FD?

FeedDemonAngel — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:59:23 GMT

Now that I'm not viewing my news within Google Reader, I already miss ReadItLater integration. Any chance that will be added?

How can I export my flagged posts from FeedDemon/Newsgator?

larrylawton08 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:31:10 GMT

I want to move away from using FeedDemon/Newsgator to using Google Reader (or something else).

However, I have lots of flagged posts in FeedDemon that I want to retain - is there any way to export them from FD or Newsgator online - even via a 3rd party product?

all synchronized items marked read: undo ?

BlackCat — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:08:58 GMT

I just come back after some vacation. and while i reconnect my FD, this morning, i had plenty of unread items.
Just now, suddenly, all my (google) synchronized items have been marked read.
Only local ones stay unread.

I didn't ask for "mark all feeds read" or panic button.

I suppose there is no undo way, right ?

is there a way to prevent this kind of bug or trace it ?

thanks

note: winxp, FD 3.0.0.41

Suggestion for grouping

otrov — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:12:25 GMT

Hi,
thanks for this great software, one could only wish such RSS reader

I have some request, and can't tell if it's too subjective:
Half of my channels are forum feeds, and I group them by date, but if I read some feed and want to see other posts from that forum topic, I switch to grouping by Title and it's hard to find the feed that I was reading. So I would like to suggest that the selected feed (the feed that I was reading) should get focus when changing the grouping.

I don't know if I'm clear so here is example:
I'm reading new feed with title "Sharpening filter on x264 720/1080p" and I would like to see on which post it is replying, so I select group by Title. But now I lost the sight of the feed that I was reading and have to find that topic manually in 30 pages newspaper i.e.

And one minor minutiae: When collapsing groups the view isn't updated with post items - it works only per page basis, i.e. I've set FD to show 15 items per page (headlines only) and today I have 30 feeds; when I collapse group "Today" the page is empty - it isn't updated with feeds from "Yesterday" group, but I have to go to page 2, and than collapsing is reseted (there also items from "Today")

I hope it's not too confusing because English is not my native language.
Thanks for reading

Batch Delete of Newspaper Items

jjhill182 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:55:00 GMT

Hello, I really like the convenience of the 'Next Unread' function in the Newspaper. However, my reading habits are such that I prefer to delete many sequential items (posts) from feeds rather than marking them as read. Is their a similar capability to perform a batch delete of items from the Newspaper view? Otherwise, I just enable the News Item Display and multi-select. Thanks.

Same license key on multiple computers

rinre — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:54:35 GMT

I purchased a license key for FeedDemon 3.0 and am using it on one of my
computers. Am I allowed to use the same key in FeedDemon on another one
of my computers for my own personal use? How about on my work computer (but still only for my use)?

Thanks

FeedDemon 3 is no longer showing Thumbnails for new feeds

ItsLife — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:30:26 GMT

Prior to upgrading to FeedDemon 3, when I added a feed (i.e. a Flickr Group) the thumbnails always appeared at the top when I was in the Surfer Style. I am now using 3.0.0.41 and FeedDemon will not display any thumbnails for any new feed (they are not minimized, they are just not there). Interestingly, it still shows the thumbnails for the feeds that I added prior to FeedDemon 3. I figure I must be missing something that I need to turn on, some default that was changed between version 2 and 3 with regards to thumbnails. Any ideas?

Thank you,
Richard

How to delete a watch

Skiing_t1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:39:04 GMT

In my Watches folder there are only 2 subfolders 1) All Unread Items and 2) All Starred Items. There are no subfolders under All Unread Items. My All Unread Items watches folder keeps filling up with thousands of items.

Help says right click on a watch to modify it. However, when I right click on All Unread Items, I don't get anything. The same with All Starred Items. If I right click on Watches, I get New Watch or Mark All Watches as Read. Mark All Watches as read has no effect on the All Unread Items folder. So, I have to go page by page to mark these items as read.

If I mark all of the items in All Unread Items as read, some unseen watch continues to run and populate the folder.

How do I kill this mysterious watch so that my All Unread Items watch folder stops filling up with items I don't want?

Thanks! - T.

Marking watch item unread doesn't update read status in original feed

joesixgig — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:25:51 GMT

Keeping up with scientific literature I get hundreds of articles a week. I first read articles in specific watches. Marking them as [b]read [/b]in a watch also marks them as [b]read [/b]in the original feed.

But: I find that toggling items to [b]unread [/b]in a watch doesn't mark the item in the original feed [b]unread[/b]. Is this an inconsistency by design, or is this a bug?

Similarly, it looks like the 'star' or 'flag' status is also not mirrored between the watches and the main feeds, in this case neither flagging nor unflagging is synchronized. Again, is this by design, or an oversight?

Everything else is running smoothly, thanks again for a great program.

'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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[3.0.0.8 Beta 1a] Mark feed as read when feed changes problem

aldago — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:55:07 GMT

The option "Mark feed as read when feed changes" doesn't work with the last unread feed, so you have to manually mark it as read (or use the "next unread" button)

Problems viewing "All Unread Items"

sobeitjedi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:32:16 GMT

For my feeds, I view with "Browser On Right" so when I click on a news article, the web page for that arcticle appears in the right hand window.

I can't get this to happen for "All Unread Items" - I can only see the title and summary of the feed, not the entire page. I also can't seem to delete from "All Unread Items" - why?

Feedreader could do both - maybe I should head back to using that?

I have old delete feeds on my list

emil.sekula — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:43:15 GMT

Hello,

Today I have recognized when I delete feeds then I have again them on my feed list: [url=http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4874/feeddemon.png]http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4874/feeddemon.png[/url] Why ?

Regards,

Many times the same feeds

emil.sekula — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:34:42 GMT

Hello,

Why do I get many times the same feeds ?

Regards,