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Hello Brent & Co.,
I just noticed that the beta removes a feature I used regularly: Export Tabs.
Since tabs have never synced between installs, I've used it to share my tabs between computers; I export the current tabs listing to a file in my Dropbox. The reason is that I do most of my heavy NNWing on my desktop Mac, and I leave a decent number (~30) of tabs open at any given time in NNW. But when I take my laptop to the library or someplace else, I use the Export Tabs feature so that I can read through the tabs I have open on my desktop. I also use it to sync between my work and home Macs.
Anyway, is this feature gone for good? I really hope not. If so, is there some alternate tab-syncing system in the works?
Many thanks, as always, for a fine product.
Josh
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| Posted 8/19/2009 7:30:50 PM |
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| One other item: Is the NetNewsWire Use Summary (or something similar -- I don't remember it exactly) also gone? It allowed the only way I know of to say how many tabs one had open at a given time. I thought it was a great way to track that number as it declined in a big tab-reading session -- positive feedback.
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| Posted 8/23/2009 2:55:36 PM |
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| Any word on these questions from anyone?
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| Posted 9/1/2009 5:27:01 PM |
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I hate to be that guy who keeps replying to his own post until someone pays attention, but...anyone?
Are there any workarounds?
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| Posted 9/20/2009 9:18:21 PM |
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Okay, I'm that guy. Can anyone say whether this is lost and gone forever?
If it is, is there some other way I can keep a lot of tabs open on one computer and then export those tabs to an HTML file so I can get to them on another? A script maybe?
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| Posted 10/2/2009 10:35:18 AM |
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I just noticed the same thing, and would love to have "Export Tabs..." back too.
Meanwhile, here's one workaround:
1. Right-click any of your open tabs.
2. In the context menu that pops up, choose "Open All Tabs In Default Browser" (on my machine, that's Safari).
3. Wait for all of the URLs to open in Safari (each will open in its own window).
4. In Safari's "Window" menu, choose "Merge All Windows" to collect them all into a single tabbed window.
5. In Safari's "Bookmarks" menu, choose "Add Bookmark for These (N) Tabs...". This will create a bookmark folder, with a bookmark for each tab.
It's not elegant, but it works.
I know NetNewsWire's tab info is available to AppleScript, so an "Export Tabs..." script would be possible to write. Someone may have written and posted one already; I haven't gone looking yet.
Hopefully the feature will reappear in NetNewsWire and we won't need to worry about it!
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| Posted 10/2/2009 9:48:09 PM |
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I never heard from anybody that they liked and used the Export Tabs feature -- so it was a candidate for removal (don't want unused features cluttering things up).
However, I left in the actual feature and its AppleScript support. Here's a sample script which shows how to export your tabs using each of the three formats NetNewsWire supports.
tell application "NetNewsWire"
set export_folder to POSIX path of (path to desktop folder as text)
export tabs as HTML to file export_folder & "tabs.html"
export tabs as OPML to file export_folder & "tabs.opml"
export tabs as plain text to file export_folder & "tabs.txt"
end tell
You can modify the script and put it in NetNewsWire's Scripts menu.
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