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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:04 pm
Hi,
I am running the latest version of FFA on a G5 iMac. Since upgrading to the latest version, I notice that FFA has been tending to crash right after using the FTP module to upload my feed.
I am running the latest version of FFA on a G5 iMac. Since upgrading to the latest version, I notice that FFA has been tending to crash right after using the FTP module to upload my feed.
David
Could you please email me the crash log, ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter, to
Jim
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Location: London
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:14 pm
Crashed on me also (V 1.6.0.5) but it was in background doing nothing.
Ive just started using it and am testing it out before deciding whether to lay out the $40 on it and would welcome any feedback on it.
I was hoping I could feed an entire webpage of links to new articles on my site, but no luck! Seems I have to add each article manually.
Bill
InI
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Location: London
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:19 pm
I'm running a Powerbook G4 (Titanium) w/512k of RAM OS 10.4.4
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:20 pm
InI wrote:
Crashed on me also (V 1.6.0.5) but it was in background doing nothing.
Could you please email me the crash log, ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter, to
InI wrote:
Ive just started using it and am testing it out before deciding whether to lay out the $40 on it and would welcome any feedback on it.
I was hoping I could feed an entire webpage of links to new articles on my site, but no luck! Seems I have to add each article manually.
Bill
Yes, each link or article is a separate item is RSS feeds.
Jim
InI
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Location: London
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:54 pm
Yes, saw the note from u folks regarding 'scrapes'. Currently I use a service called Feedfire which scrapes my homepage where I store links to new articles added. I created a custom page for them to scrape but apparently it presents major hassles switching to a new target (something to do with their DB).
Okay, thanks, I'll see how much time it takes for me to go the 'homebrew' route.
Bill
InI
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Location: London
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:02 pm
Unfortunately, my crash log folder is empty! Just updated to 10.4.5 so am not sure if that cleared yesterday's log.
sorry about that
Bill
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:04 pm
InI wrote:
Unfortunately, my crash log folder is empty! Just updated to 10.4.5 so am not sure if that cleared yesterday's log.
sorry about that
Bill
Okay.
InI
Joined: 14 Feb 2006
Posts: 19
Location: London
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:59 pm
Okay, it just crashed (again, after an FTP, as someone else reported). I've mailed you the crash code.
Bill
InI
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Location: London
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:30 pm
Well after relaunching from the last crash, the entire xml file is trashed! Lost all the items, it even overwrote the file on the server (no backup of course).
Gave an end of file error.
Here's what's left of it
Investigating New Imperialism InI is a news and current affairs magazine, updated on a daily basis and covers important events around the planet from a socialist perspective
http://williambowles.info/monthly_index/index.html http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:03:25 +0000 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:02:00 +0000 FeedForAll Mac v1.6 (1.6.0.5) unlicensed version The Travails of Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho 16/2/06
It means I have to rebuild the feed from the getgo.
I've exported the feed from Newsfire as an opml file. Can I import this into FFA or does it have to be converted (can it be)?
Bill
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:40 pm
InI wrote:
Well after relaunching from the last crash, the entire xml file is trashed! Lost all the items, it even overwrote the file on the server (no backup of course).
Gave an end of file error.
Here's what's left of it
Investigating New Imperialism InI is a news and current affairs magazine, updated on a daily basis and covers important events around the planet from a socialist perspective
http://williambowles.info/monthly_index/index.html http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:03:25 +0000 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:02:00 +0000 FeedForAll Mac v1.6 (1.6.0.5) unlicensed version The Travails of Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho 16/2/06
It means I have to rebuild the feed from the getgo.
I've exported the feed from Newsfire as an opml file. Can I import this into FFA or does it have to be converted (can it be)?
Bill
Before trying to upload again, check in ~/Documents/FeedForAll/Temporary/ for a file with the same names as the feed. This is saved for use in uploading.
The feed on the disk is saved and the file closed when ever you save, so it shouldn't get corrupted on a crash in normal cases.
But check the Temporary folder first.
Jim
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:46 pm
No, nada in there, already checked. Wiped all my work out!
OPML's no good either as Feedfire just exports the link info to all the feeds, NOT the content of the feed. Tried to figure out where Feedfire keeps it but no luck.
Feedfire is back up, maybe I could grab their XML code but would FFA understand it if I tried opening it in FFA
Bill
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:50 pm
InI wrote:
No, nada in there, already checked. Wiped all my work out!
OPML's no good either as Feedfire just exports the link info to all the feeds, NOT the content of the feed. Tried to figure out where Feedfire keeps it but no luck.
Feedfire is back up, maybe I could grab their XML code but would FFA understand it if I tried opening it in FFA
Bill
If it is a RSS feed it should
InI
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:57 pm
Well I think I know what crashed it, FFA doesn't like non-ASCII characters such as é.
Feedfire accepts them as it's using
Not UTF-8
This is how the item looks in Feedfire
The Travails of Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho 16/2/06
http://www.williambowles.info//am%8Ericas/coha_lydia_cacho.html 2006-02-15T21:02:14+00:00
Grabbed this by downloading the RSS feed from the Feedfire site
Bill
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:01 pm
InI wrote:
Well I think I know what crashed it, FFA doesn't like non-ASCII characters such as é.
Feedfire accepts them as it's using
Not UTF-8
This is how the item looks in Feedfire
The Travails of Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho 16/2/06
http://www.williambowles.info//am%8Ericas/coha_lydia_cacho.html 2006-02-15T21:02:14+00:00
Grabbed this by downloading the RSS feed from the Feedfire site
Bill
It should do just fine, and translate character from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, if it is actually in ISO-8859-1. Can you give me the URL of that feed, or similar so I can test here.