Thunderbird 1.5 RSS is Not Working

Looks like Mozilla released the newest version of Thunderbird with a broken RSS tool. I haven't had a new feed come through since I installed it this morning and after checking the bug list at Mozilla.org, I found that this problem has already been discovered. I'm wondering why it wasn't discovered *before* they released a major new version of the program.

Let's hope they find a fix to this soon. To add insult to injury, they have taken down any previous versions of the software, so you can't uninstall 1.5 and reinstall the previous version. Not good. I tried doing a Windows System Restore, but that caused major headaches.

If anyone knows of a solution to this mess, let me know. Otherwise, I am forced to wait for Mozilla to figure it out and issue a bug fix.

Comments

[glenneroo]

ack yes indeed this bug sucks arse! Adding new feeds doesnt work either, just hangs around trying to verify the feed until the cows come home... :(

[l]

------- Comment #12 From Grant Stone 2006-05-09 18:11 PDT [reply] -------

More information on my problem - I brought up the javascript console and I saw
an error in parsing feeditems.rdf, line 1.

I couldn't load feeditems.rdf in a text editor. Just garbage characters. So I
backed up my feeds, shut down Thunderbird, deleted feeditems.rdf and restarted.

The RSS feeds came in instantly. A new feeditems.rdf was created and was
well-formed XML.

So my problem is fixed. I don't know if this information helps toward figuring
out the original problem.

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Hi:
Thanks for the comment. That's really interesting because it mirrors the way you fix a corrupt in box by deleting the index file. In this case you deleted the feeditems.rdf and Thunderbird restored it. Thanks for the great tip.

RM

[vermin]

Great tip! thanks!
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Glad you found it helpful. It's great when folks share their experiences like this and help each other out.

RM

[Ted H]

What I'm seeing is a pair of errors:
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Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIRDFService.GetDataSourceBlocking]" nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger-newsblog/content/utils.js :: getItemsDS :: line 219" data: no]
Source File: chrome://messenger-newsblog/content/utils.js
Line: 219

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Error: not well-formed
Source File: file:////Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/u1gnyuqu.default/Mail/News%20&%20Blogs/feeditems.rdf
Line: 5, Column: 34
Source Code:
urn:forumzilla:stored="true"---------------------------------^

When I try to use a broser to the document definition (that is being loaded by the utils.js), the Document definition isn't found (404 error). I expect the RDF files aren't parsing as a result.

Ted

[Mike]

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I couldn't load feeditems.rdf in a text editor. Just garbage characters. So I
backed up my feeds, shut down Thunderbird, deleted feeditems.rdf and restarted.

The RSS feeds came in instantly. A new feeditems.rdf was created and was
well-formed XML.

So my problem is fixed. I don't know if this information helps toward figuring
out the original problem.
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Thanks a bunch! I'm running Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 and haven't used my News and Blog reader in over a year, because it suddenly stopped downloading new messages and I was too lazy to fix the problem.

I closed Thunderbird, deleted the feeditems.rdf file, restarted, and it regenerated a new file. Everything now works great.

Thanks Again

[Gavan]

Ah yes thanks deleting the file "feeditems.rdf" worked a treat. Just didn't know where to find the file at first.

[Tim]

Thanks for the tip, mr. Stone!

[Zou]

I did a complete search for feeditems.rdf and could not locate it. Any chance that it could be named something else in the latest version of the software?