Unread Articles don't display

[mobopro]

I'm running Vienna version 3.0.0 Beta 9 :b47bfca:. Somehow I'm in a state where I see there are new articles, but they don't display in the Unread Articles smart folder.

For a while even though it showed in the left column that there were 9 new articles for one of the feeds, when I selected that feed nothing would be listed at all either -- but I found by deleting the feed and re-adding it they showed up again, though still not in the Unread Articles smart folder.

How can I fix this? If I have to wipe Vienna clean again, is there a way to preserve my list of feeds without having to add them all one by one again?

[RogerM]

I see this at times, usually a second refresh will make the new articles appear.

[mobopro]

Not in this case, I'm afraid. No matter how many times I refresh or restart I don't see any articles.

The Unread Articles smart folder has simply stopped working for me.

[barijaona]

Double click on it, to check if its definition hasn't been changed.

[mobopro]

Its definition is like this:

Show all articles that match ALL of the following conditions:
READ is NO

[mobopro]

Note that if I change it to:
READ is YES

I get a long list of the read articles. When I switch it back to NO, there's nothing in the list, even though several feeds currently have unread articles.

[barijaona]

Do individual feeds show articles, when the "Unread articles" filter is activated ?

If you create a new smart folder using the same definition than the "Uneread Articles" one, do you notice any change ?

[mobopro]

Do individual feeds show articles, when the "Unread articles" filter is activated ?

Yes.

If you create a new smart folder using the same definition than the "Uneread Articles" one, do you notice any change ?

No.

Weird, I know!

[barijaona]

Yes, completely weird… Your database has probably been damaged by a previous beta. Beta 9 seems much surer, though...

If you want to restart from a clean database, I'd recommend the following steps :

- Use "File->Export Subscriptions" ; select both options "Export all subscriptions" and "Preserve group folders in exported file"
- Quit Vienna
- Delete (or, better, rename) the ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna/messages.db file
- Relaunch Vienna
- Delete the default subscriptions
- Use "File->Update Subscriptions From Google Reader" ; wait a few seconds.
- Use "File->Import Subscriptions", and point to the file saved at the first step.

You will have to do a bit of folder reordering after that.

[mobopro]

Yay! That did the trick. I'm back and running as I should. Thanks very much!

[barijaona]

You're welcome.