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Mysterious newsfeed counts in the Mail panel

Monday, 25. April 2005, 14:44:01

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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:
  • Go to Feeds > Read feeds
  • In the mail toolbar (the one with Read, Delete, Label etc buttons), enable View > Show > Show filtered
This will set the Newsfeeds unread count to the sum of the individual unread newsfeeds.

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.

Migrating custom settings from one Opera installation to anotherIf you had disabled the mail client in Opera 7.xx...

Comments

DolfhinDC 25. April 2005, 14:44

Thanks, I've bookmarked it :D

froggy420 29. November 2005, 04:01

I had 25 phantom feeds, followed your directions and got it down to 5 phantom feeds. I can't remember what feeds I have subsribed to and deleted.

neeraj_deshmukh 29. November 2005, 14:33

[froggy420] The feeds you have ever subscribed to should be listed if you right-click in the Mail panel and select Newsfeeds.

froggy420 29. November 2005, 23:22

All the ones that are on my list are in my subsciptions. I still have 5 that I can not locate. I know what I did. I deleted from the list and didn't unsubscribe, but I can't remember which newsfeed it was that I deleted.

neeraj_deshmukh 30. November 2005, 16:21

[froggy420] Usually, when you delete a newsfeed all its messages are automatically deleted as well (i.e. put in the Trash filter if you have the Mail panel active, which you will need to then empty to really get rid of them). Try enabling View > Show > Show Trash in your feeds view.

froggy420 1. December 2005, 01:31

There is nothing there. i have opened all the filters and still nothing there, I have tried everything but still showing 5 newsfeeds unread.

Oliwia 6. June 2006, 04:56

Thank you! it's ok now! :-)
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