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Thursday, February 6, 2003

Damn you Syndirella!!!

Lost my feeds again (after I had to CTRL-ALT-DELETE it), bastards. It froze viewing a PowerPoint file, so I don't know whether it was the PowerPoint viewer, Internet Explorer, or Syndirella that was the cause of the crash.

Either way, however, it's Syndirella's fault that it lost my feeds. How can you just lose data? Does it keep the "list of feeds" file open all the time? What a PITA.

Ah, that could do it. Syndirella seems to store the list of feeds along with all of the individual feeds' data (cache of posts, feed settings, etc.) all together in a flat file. So if it happens to crash while it's updating any feed, or even when it's marking an item in a feed read, the master data file will be open and data probably lost when Syndirella dies.

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M. Bean wrote:

well, I'm looking into a good aggregator, but considering the trouble you've had with this one... any other suggestions?

∴ M. Bean | 6-Feb-2003 11:47pm est | #1405

Unfortunately, no. Since it first lost my feeds I started looking around for an alternative. Nothing I could find came close, which is why I gave Syndirella another chance. Though, I discounted some that may have been okay because they didn't do things like categories or have the ability to export to OPML, and I was frustrated with others because they didn't do things like RSS auto-discovery.

Keep in mind that Syndirella is an alpha-quality product right now, and given that is pretty decent.

BTW, I don't understand exactly what happens when a program crashes with an open file. Like, exactly what goes on in the file system when a program has a file handle open and then crashes? And how do some programs, which obviously work on their files in place, not lose data? I've dealt with a bunch of many-hundred megabyte files in Outlook, and when Outlook crashes it's been pretty good at not destroying any data.

By the way, since Syndirella is open source I'd like to take a look and see if I can do anything to it. Unfortunately, there's no way that's going to happen any time in the near future. I haven't gotten to install XP yet, let alone install Visual Studio, etc.

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