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| 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.
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| This has been happening to me too, and since I also can't find a setting for it, I assume it's coming from Google Reader. I just disabled synchronization today, so in a few days I should have a better idea if that's the right cause or not.
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| There isn't a setting in FeedDemon that could cause this, so it may well be something on the GReader side. Can you let me know the URL of a feed you're seeing this with so I can test with it here? Best,
Nick Bradbury
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| It was happening to me with every feed, so I'll just pick a popular one like http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml. I haven't kept careful track but to me it seems that it's not that the items are marked read after a week, but that they're marked read at the end of the week. If I remember correctly, I've been caught up through Wednesday on some feeds and then gone to read Thursday-Saturday on the weekend only to find that the Thurs. and Fri. entries have already been marked read.
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Here are a couple examples:
http://lifehacker.com/index.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/odtv-twich/?format=xml
The second one is an example where there is one post per week. The unread count never goes above one, even when I don't check it for a while.
I haven't read Lifehacker in over a month, yet every day that goes by another day worth of posts gets marked as being read. This is an example of a feed where eventually I would like to go back and look at every post I haven't read yet when I have some free time.
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| OK, what you're describing may be due to the way Google Reader works. In order to prevent keeping thousands of old unread items, Google Reader automatically marks items as read once they're a month old. If you're synching FeedDemon with Google Reader, then those posts will also be marked read in FeedDemon. I believe that at least explains what you're seeing with the Lifehacker feed that you haven't read in over a month. I'm not sure about that TWiCH feed, though - I'll subscribe to it and watch if for a while.
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| I haven't read that feed in a month in the manner that I typically read feeds, although the entries that are getting marked as being read are slightly over one week old. It isn't technically true that I haven't read it in a month, since I have been checking once every few days or so to see which entries got marked read today. In order to see the date of the most recent unread feed I click on it, which marks it as being read. This is the feed I have been using to monitor the issue, so I have been careful to avoid reading it to watch its behavior. Right now the oldest unread item is on 11/12/2009 at 4pm. The unread count for that feed hovers around 150 messages. Is 150 a magic number? I checked the properties of that feed and don't see 150 anywhere. None of my other feeds are capped at 150, so I would assume it is just a coincidence that it has been around that number for a while. I am using v3.0 and it does say "Synchronizing" whenever I open it up in the morning. I assume this means syncing with GReader. I have it linked to my Google Reader account, although I never use Google Reader. My goal with synchronizing is so that I can open up FeedDemon on my laptop when I travel and carry on where I left off.
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I turned off Google synchronization and the problem stopped. Feeds are no longer being marked as read automatically. I logged into GReader and the feeds there are still being marked as read automatically. So the problem is that GReader is marking these as read. I don't know of any setting in GReader that controls this, so I think I need to disable synchronization permanently.
The problem I need to deal with now is that FeedDemon is no longer updating feeds properly. It is not picking up news stories that are in the RSS feed, but are completely absent from FeedDemon for an unknown reason.
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