Mysterious newsfeed counts in the Mail panel
Monday, 25. April 2005, 14:44:01
There have been a few threads in the past commenting on how, if you are subscribed to multiple feeds, you see the correct individual feed counts; but the Newfeeds label in your Mail panel shows a small random number (i.e. not the sum total of individual feed counts).
Workarounds like select the first feed, then shift+up arrow etc have also been mentioned. However, these work iffy at best. In Opera v8.0 and above, we can put this issue to rest at last using the following procedure:
The underlying bug is that some of the feeds are marked as filtered by the individual feeds, while some are not. The number next to Newsfeeds in the Mail panel is only those that are visible in the all newsfeeds filter, which you can only access via Feeds > Read feeds.
Workarounds like select the first feed, then shift+up arrow etc have also been mentioned. However, these work iffy at best. In Opera v8.0 and above, we can put this issue to rest at last using the following procedure:
- Go to Feeds > Read feeds
- In the mail toolbar (the one with Read, Delete, Label etc buttons), enable View > Show > Show filtered
The underlying bug is that some of the feeds are marked as filtered by the individual feeds, while some are not. The number next to Newsfeeds in the Mail panel is only those that are visible in the all newsfeeds filter, which you can only access via Feeds > Read feeds.
