Pete Zaitcev ( zaitcev) wrote,
Pete Zaitcev
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Liferea dangers

Liferea crashed on me a minute ago, and left the feedlist.opml truncated, very near the start. There's no backup anywere in sight (the last one which I did was in November 2005). So, now I have to remember all my feeds and resubscribe. Bloody open source programmers. Just what kind of idiot writes into a live configuration file instead of using a rename?

Unfortunately, according to my research, there's no other RSS reader anywhere near Liferea in convenience, so let it be a lesson in importance of a backup policy for dot-files.

{Update: Latest RSS files are saved in cache/feeds, so perhaps I can regenerate a list from that.}

{Update: My script keyed on "feedSource" and encountered an entry by Paul Fields, which deals with the same issue... [link]. It has the word "feedSource" in the body, not just the header. So I'm not using an XML tool, so sue me.}
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