RSS Feeds disappear from Outlook
I have been using Office 2007 since Beta 1 and have had no real issues with the product (stability at the start, but that is much better in the final release). I have been using the RSS features which are really cool but just this morning Outlook is not updating my RSS feeds. On further investigations Tools|Account Settings|RSS Feeds no longer contains a list of RSS Feeds. I now have to delete each RSS and re-add it manually (I didn’t have an OPML file – doh!).
For those of you that are using Office 2007 and the RSS feed feature, I recommend using the Import and Export feature to create an OPML file of your feeds occasionally (then you wont loose them like I did).
If anyone else has experienced this issue then let me know and if I find a fix to this issue I will update this post.
Comments
Anonymous
January 31, 2008
grumpywookie Says: March 27, 2007 at 2:05 pm Any resolution on this ? Mine just keep dropping off - randomly GONE.Anonymous
January 31, 2008
Code Jedi Says: March 27, 2007 at 2:08 pm Still have not found a cause for this however the workaround of creating an OPML backup file and importing from that seems to be working for me.Anonymous
January 31, 2008
RSS Feeds - they keep disappearing ! « Grumpy Wookie Says: April 30, 2007 at 10:03 pm […] is to extract the feed list (OPML) from time-to-time, and re-import, as suggested by CodeJedi.NET. Sure, this will work, but seems like a less-than-optimal […]Anonymous
January 31, 2008
Code Jedi Says: May 3, 2007 at 7:48 am Grumpy Wookie has posted a potential solution, for some, to this issue (http://grumpywookie.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rss-feeds-they-keep-disappearing/). The post describes a potential reason for the issue. The work around resolution suggested is “DONT use outlook for RSS feeds”. I think I will continue to use Outlook as my RSS reader (especially in Outlook Web Access) and rely on the OPML workaround, at least until I loose all my feeds again-without a OPML backup- and then I throw my computer thru the window.