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Custom update interval for Opera feed

Thursday, November 2, 2006 1:50:36 AM

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Opera has only few choice of update intervals for feed. You can change it to any required interval.

Note the path to mail directory. Close Opera, open index.ini in any text editor from mail directory and change Update Frequency= with required number of seconds.

Update Frequency=-1 for never
Update Frequency=60 for 1 minute
Update Frequency=3600 for 1 hour
Update Frequency=86400 for 1 day
Update Frequency=604800 for 1 week

Use search & replace all option in text editor if you have several feeds as it will take time to change update interval for each feed in Manage feeds....

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Comments

Unregistered user Monday, December 10, 2007 12:36:02 PM

Anonymous writes: I tried this but it doesn't check every minute! Just doesn't work.

stabathilewallyn Sunday, January 27, 2008 7:01:50 AM

bigsmile

Unregistered user Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:47:11 AM

TobbeW writes: Im having problem with the interval. Not this specific feature, but Opera seems to do drugs and change my intervals by itself. I set 5 minutes, opera changes to 60. I set a interval to 1 hour, opera change to 3 hours. How come? How is this controlled?

Aalaap Ghagaalaap Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:26:57 AM

I set it to 60, but it doesn't seem to refresh eery minute. When I go to the feed settings dialog, it still says 5 minutes, but that's probably because Opera doesn't have a drop down box pre-filled value (for eg. "Every minute") for a .ini value of 60 seconds.

Unregistered user Monday, September 22, 2008 5:02:31 AM

Anonymous writes: Is there anyway 2 keep the new feed notifier displayed until I click it? I somehow seem 2 miss them getting a drink or something. I guess I could have a bottom right corner blind spot.

Tamil Monday, September 22, 2008 11:24:46 AM

AFAIK, no.

Unregistered user Thursday, September 15, 2011 1:17:19 PM

moli writes: ok, i've got enough. i desperately needed a solution for this but did not find any on the net, so i've got a hexeditor and tried to find the default values for the poll interval. it's at 0x536171 for opera build 1087 on linux (md5: 2b487ad9121add29f2810e336e714040) should be around this if you use an other build. i replaced the '24 hours' value to 5 seconds, IT WORKS. yeah, i'll have to edit the binary after every update, i'm gonna make a script to find the value and replace it. to opera guys: please do not try to restrict your users. at least give us the option to edit config files in a text editor.

Tamil Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:10:58 PM

i replaced the '24 hours' value to 5 seconds

faint

Unregistered user Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:09:55 PM

moli writes: 5 sec: i use the project called feedproxy which runs at localhost, so it is acceptable. patch: i tried to make the patch automated by searching for patterns but couldnt make it, so here is a script which calculates the md5 of the given file and if it is known, patches it. http://moli.hu/content/opera-feed_poll_interval-patch.php.txt currently only linux64 version for ubuntu/debian is in the script. also tried to edit the UI labels, but they are concat'ed from parts :(

Tamil Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:38:36 PM

Okay.

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:03:22 AM

Anonymous writes: I've done this but when I next open Opera again it resets all the entries in index.ini to what they were before. I also can't change them manually. I've got a feed that's set at 2 hours update interval, and I can select a new interval, it just doesn't get committed when I hit "OK". What's going on?

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:33:48 AM

Anonymous writes: I guess Opera sets it to the RSS publisher's minimum interval, which understandable. If I set it to something really low, all the feeds turn up with different minimum intervals after being updated once.

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:54:11 PM

Anonymous writes: Having just checked the behaviour in 12.00 and 12.02, it seems 12.00 leaves everything at the setting I choose, while 12.02 resets some of them. Is this expected behaviour for both versions?

Tamil Monday, September 17, 2012 5:06:27 AM

No idea.

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