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Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

dave — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:59:05 -0000

Hey I like feature requests like that. Very straightforward and it's a
loose-end that needed closing off.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

richone — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:41:35 -0000

Don't stop rocking! Thanks!

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

dave — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:05:34 -0000

Thanks for the feature request.

http://river2.org/2009/12/1...

It was an easy feature to add. :-)

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

richone — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:58:40 -0000

So I've got River2 pretty setup but one little problem evades me. Trying to get Flickr pictures to be recognized as photos so the enclosure get downloaded into my Podcatcher directory. URL for the feed is: http://api.flickr.com/servi...

I am working to get my mac desktop setup again with river2 similar to how I had it with Flickrfan:

http://www.robotthoughts.co...

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Megan Taylor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:24:04 -0000

Thanks for the quick reply! I'll let it hang out for a bit, then.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

dave — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:21:37 -0000

Sorry you're having trouble -- here's what I suggest.

Let it run for a while, and the error will probably clear.

And it takes a while to load all your OPML -- it's reading all the feeds.

Dave

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Megan Taylor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:08:17 -0000

Having some trouble getting started with River2. When I try to check the News page for new items, I'm getting this error: 500 Server Error Can't evaluate the expression because the name "flPodcast" hasn't been defined.
I've gone through the preferences and didn't see anything there that might cause this.
Related (or not): I tried to import an OPML of my Twitter friends and River2 looks to have only loaded about 50 of them (according to Feeds page).
Any ideas?

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Scott Kingery — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:24:20 -0000

So it appears the feeds are really stored in NewsRiver\Guest Databases\apps\config.root

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Scott Kingery — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:33:50 -0000

Don't think river2 is backing up on Windows. Can't seem to find where it is holding the feeds and I can't find river2Subscriptions.opml any where (did a scan of C:).

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

johnchapman — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:36:30 -0000

I've installed River2 on a second windows 7 pc and am having more success.
The html rss feed are working well

When I go to http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/catalog
I have only installed river2. (This was following advice to stick to the newer river2 stuff).

I'm confused by the podcasting and how to trigger a download to my podcatcher folder.
I have subscribed to the feeds but no mp3 files have downloaded (except the 2 from from NPR 7AM ET News Summary Podcast).
"eg Enclosure Downloaded an enclosure from NPR: 7AM ET News Summary Podcast to a local file (2.4MB). 11:06:15 AM 3.483"

Subscribe The Danny Baker Show. 1:47:58 PM 0.233
Subscribe Material World. 11:10:04 AM 0.166

I have used the Scan option and existed River2 and restared the pc but none of these things make a difference.

Do I need to install podcaster module?
http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/catalog

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

fmcpherson — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:42:09 -0000

Is there any plan to remove the requirement for rssCloud to be net accessible? The majority of users should be behind a NATed firewall via a home router.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Francisco Geraci — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:26:12 -0000

Dilmon- if you are running as a non-administrative user, put the OPML folder in your ~/Applications directory (in your home folder). If you try to run the OPML editor from the root applications directory /Applications you will get write errors unless you are running as an administrative user on Snow Leopard.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

heavyboots — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:05:44 -0000

Bug report: on getUserFolder () fails during setup.

All my computers are set up with a separate Work drive and the home folders for all users except an emergency admin account live on the Work drive and not in the /Users folder, making the path "/Volumes/Work/username/" to reach them.

Since anyone can change their default home path using the right-click "Advanced Options" contextual menu (10.5/10.6) or using NetInfo Manager (10.4 or lower) something more robust might be called for?

EDIT: OK, this works. Just bypass the cruft and access the path directly from Applescript. :)

on getUserFolder()
local (folder = pc + string.nthField (sys.unixShellCommand ("osascript -e 'get path to home folder as string'"), ' ', 1))
return folder

An example return value from this is:
:Work:username:

EDIT2: ARGH! Not working quite right. I see that now my Podcasts folder in Prefs is default listed as:

Startup:Applications:OPML:Work:username: Desktop:Podcasts

or something similar.

But at any rate the above UNIX command will always get the right home folder. Obviously I don't know enough about the code to apply fixes from there... :(

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Aaron — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:17:05 -0000

In the OMPL editor, Tool catalog doesn't do anything. I know it reads a "Fat Page" from http://static.opml.org/opml..., but looking at the source there I see a path to Dave's hard drive, which I'm guessing is not correct. Advice?

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Francisco Geraci — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:50:44 -0000

Oh my. Another error in my previous comment. The first line should read:

"If you are on a Mac and getting the same errors, either run the OPML editor under a *ADMINISTRATOR* account, OR install the OPML editor under your /Users/username/Applications directory"

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Francisco Geraci — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:46:24 -0000

Excuse me, I made an error in my previous comment. I have corrected the error with *CAPITAL* letters below:

"The OPML editor cannot write to it's own directory if you are logged in as an *STANDARD USER* (NON-administrator) and you have installed the OPML editor under /Applications."

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Francisco Geraci — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:40:24 -0000

If you are on a Mac and getting the same errors, either run the OPML editor under a non-administrator account, or install the OPML editor under your /Users/username/Applications directory. The OPML editor cannot write to it's own directory if you are logged in as an administrator and you have installed the OPML editor under /Applications.

Still, I can't find any explanation as to why Dave's local path is hard coded into the application ("HD:Users:davewiner:Documents:OPML Ship Shop:OPML:Guest Databases:www"). I can't think of a good reason for this; perhaps its a bug.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

dave — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:43:07 -0000

If you can upload the OPML that caused problems or send it to me via email I
can try to fix the problem.

It's true that we're looking for a flat list. Should be easy to allow for a
structured list.

Dave

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

martin_english — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:21:07 -0000

A problem I noted with exporting my Google reader subscriptions and importing them into River2.

If you have tagged a subscription in GR, then the OPML created by the export has <outline ...=""> data for that subscription is stored WITHIN a higher order <outline> </outline> container - see below for a subset.....

When this is imported into River2, while it doesn't crash and burn, the 'sub outlines' y don't get loaded as feeds - I THINK River2 is just not expecting an <outline> within another <outline> container.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Dilmon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:03:55 -0000

using snow leopard. write errors. can''t get past them.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Dilmon — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:03:00 -0000

write errors. using snow leopard.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

jcposner — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:11:39 -0000

I tried to import a google reader exported opml file into the opml editor and got errors and would not import. any suggestions? thx-jim

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

dave — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:39:20 -0000

Thanks. This is all new code. That's a bug -- I'll look into it in a few minutes. Thanks for taking the time to report it.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Aaron — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:36:48 -0000

I added the deleted feeds back and it resolved itself, so it looks like your delete code is not totally clean yet.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Aaron — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:34:26 -0000

Deleting the default Guardian feeds from the list seems to have broken it. Now upon going to http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2/ I get:

500 Server Error

Can't find a sub-table named "http://feeds.guardian.co.uk...".