How do i delete/clear ALL my rss feed items?

How do i delete/clear ALL my rss feed items?

ok, i'm using xp sp3 opera 10.53.

i have about 5 email accounts, 100 rss feeds setup and probably over 100,000 rss feed items, 70,000 which are unread as i don't care for them. now, i notice this is the reason why opera takes so long to open and close down. it even takes the process 15 minutes to close, eating up precious cpu at the same time.

options are to open the all the feeds, highlight all of them and delete, which will probably take forever. or i can manually clean the feed items from the mail folder. the problem is will this lead to errors in the mail database as I WANT TO KEEP MY EMAILS.

any help?

thanks!

Originally posted by J1Hundred:

i notice this is the reason why opera takes so long to open and close down.

Yes, I get that too with a lot of feeds.

As you said, you can click on the Feeds access point in the mail panel and it will open a message list that will show feed messages from all your feeds. You then just ctrl + a and shift + delete to get rid of them. Yes, this may take a tad bit. But, it shouldn't take that long.

After you do that, as for the actual feeds, you can right-click on the Feeds access point and goto properties. There, you should be able to delete them pretty quickly. (I find it helps to uncheck each box next to the feeds, apply the changes (by okaying out and going back in) and then delete them. Otherwise, some of the entries come back after you delete them, especially if you've ever renamed the title).

As for closing down Opera and doing it manually, you probably could. In the mail folder, delete the newsfeed folder, the corresponding folder in the store folder, the rss account in accounts.ini and the 100 or so index sections in index.ini. However, editing index.ini can mess up things and even then, you may still have data left over in some of Opera's other files. So, it won't be the cleanest uninstall of feeds.

So, it's best to do it from the UI.

But, before you do anything, goto File (or O-Menu -> settings) -> import and export and export your feed list. Then, after you're all done cleaning things up, you can reimport your feed list if you want.That way, you can test if it's just the number of different feeds you're subscribed to, or if it was the number of feed messages that Opera was being slow with.

thanks for the info. i will most likely do this from the UI.

i deleted the 'lexicon' and 'indexer' folder in the mail folder. bad move. i thought all the rss feeds were stored in the big files, but it turns out the emails are stored somewhere in there as well. so now no feed items or mail items. i should've exported my emails and imported them later.

next time i'll make sure to delete the items from the UI, or if it takes too long, i'll just export my emails, delete those folders and then import my emails again.

good note is that opera now starts up and closes down faster and my hard drive isn't getting hammered by the activity of opera compressing the rss items into the big .bx file.

Originally posted by J1Hundred:

deleted the 'lexicon' and 'indexer' folder in the mail folder. bad move.

Deleting the indexer folder is what did it.