[laymonk]

Hi,

I recently purchased Awasu, and for the past few days have fed it hundreds of channels.

It crashed just now, forcing a restart ... and while restarting, it prompted me to synchronize something (and did point out that I'd used the same folder previously). Well, not being aware yet what this feature does, I accepted to use the same folder.

Now all my channels are gone. This is like 5 days work, down the drain.

Is there any way I can get back my channels and avoid starting afresh ?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[laymonk]

Hi,

I recently purchased Awasu, and for the past few days have fed it hundreds of channels.

It crashed just now, forcing a restart ... and while restarting, it prompted me to synchronize something (and did point out that I'd used the same folder previously). Well, not being aware yet what this feature does, I accepted to use the same folder.

Now all my channels are gone. This is like 5 days work, down the drain.

Is there any way I can get back my channels and avoid starting afresh ?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[support]

The first thing to do is backup your data files.

In your email, you said you found the local data, but channels are configured in the roaming data directory e.g. %AppData%\Roaming\Awasu\. The channels are configured in the Channels\ sub-directory. Is there anything there?

[support]

The first thing to do is backup your data files.

In your email, you said you found the local data, but channels are configured in the roaming data directory e.g. %AppData%\Roaming\Awasu\. The channels are configured in the Channels\ sub-directory. Is there anything there?

[laymonk]

Thanks for responding ...

Expectedly, the channels config seems to have been overwritten when Awasu restarted after the crash ... so, the AwasuNews.channel is the only file there. I will have to read and understand the whole point of the synchronization, to avoid a recurrence

So, can the files in %AppData%\Local\Awasu\ be used to try and recreate the channels ?

[laymonk]

Thanks for responding ...

Expectedly, the channels config seems to have been overwritten when Awasu restarted after the crash ... so, the AwasuNews.channel is the only file there. I will have to read and understand the whole point of the synchronization, to avoid a recurrence

So, can the files in %AppData%\Local\Awasu\ be used to try and recreate the channels ?

[support]

Expectedly, the channels config seems to have been overwritten when Awasu restarted after the crash ... so, the AwasuNews.channel is the only file there.

I suspect what's happened is that you synchronized with an empty sync file, so Awasu has dutifully updated its configuration to match that i.e. empty

Send me your archive.db (and archive.db-shm and archive.db-wal if they're there), plus all the files in the Logs/ sub-directory, and I'll see what I can do...

[support]

Expectedly, the channels config seems to have been overwritten when Awasu restarted after the crash ... so, the AwasuNews.channel is the only file there.

I suspect what's happened is that you synchronized with an empty sync file, so Awasu has dutifully updated its configuration to match that i.e. empty

Send me your archive.db (and archive.db-shm and archive.db-wal if they're there), plus all the files in the Logs/ sub-directory, and I'll see what I can do...

[laymonk]

OK ... send it here in this forum or via email ?

Thanks a million ... much appreciated

[laymonk]

OK ... send it here in this forum or via email ?

Thanks a million ... much appreciated

[laymonk]

Also, there are other archive db files

archive2.{db,db-wal,db-shim}
archive-offline.{db,db-wal,db-shim} - has the largest size, so I suspect this contains feeds downloaded for offline usage

Should I include any of these other archive files in what I send ?

[laymonk]

Also, there are other archive db files

archive2.{db,db-wal,db-shim}
archive-offline.{db,db-wal,db-shim} - has the largest size, so I suspect this contains feeds downloaded for offline usage

Should I include any of these other archive files in what I send ?

[support]

OK ... send it here in this forum or via email ?

Email them. Send config.ini as well, the other files aren't necessary.

[support]

OK ... send it here in this forum or via email ?

Email them. Send config.ini as well, the other files aren't necessary.

[support]

You asked in your email how I managed to recover your channels.

The XML files in the Logs/ directory are copies of the last feed received from each channel (this is what's shown when you choose Show last feed in the UI). Feeds often have a link back to themselves, so I wrote a script to iterate over these files and extract that link.

Code: Select all

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
import os

import feedparser

print( "<opml version=\"1.0\">" )
print( "<body>" )
print()

dname = "laymonk/Logs"
for root, dnames, fnames in os.walk( dname ):
    for fname in fnames:
        if os.path.splitext( fname )[1] != ".xml":
            continue
        fname = os.path.join( root, fname )

        data = feedparser.parse( fname )
        links = data["feed"].get( "links", {} )
        urls = [ link for link in links if "xml" in link["type"] ]
        if urls:
            assert len( urls[0] ) == 1
            url = urls[0].get( "href" )
            print( "<outline xmlUrl=\"{}\" />".format( url ) )
        else:
            print( "===", fname, "===", file=sys.stderr )
            for link in links:
                print( link, file=sys.stderr )
            print( file=sys.stderr )

print()
print( "</body>" )
print( "</opml>" )

For those feeds that don't have such a link, they often have links to their home page, which will give you an idea of where the channel came from, and let you manually re-create the channel.

[support]

You asked in your email how I managed to recover your channels.

The XML files in the Logs/ directory are copies of the last feed received from each channel (this is what's shown when you choose Show last feed in the UI). Feeds often have a link back to themselves, so I wrote a script to iterate over these files and extract that link.

Code: Select all

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
import os

import feedparser

print( "<opml version=\"1.0\">" )
print( "<body>" )
print()

dname = "laymonk/Logs"
for root, dnames, fnames in os.walk( dname ):
    for fname in fnames:
        if os.path.splitext( fname )[1] != ".xml":
            continue
        fname = os.path.join( root, fname )

        data = feedparser.parse( fname )
        links = data["feed"].get( "links", {} )
        urls = [ link for link in links if "xml" in link["type"] ]
        if urls:
            assert len( urls[0] ) == 1
            url = urls[0].get( "href" )
            print( "<outline xmlUrl=\"{}\" />".format( url ) )
        else:
            print( "===", fname, "===", file=sys.stderr )
            for link in links:
                print( link, file=sys.stderr )
            print( file=sys.stderr )

print()
print( "</body>" )
print( "</opml>" )

For those feeds that don't have such a link, they often have links to their home page, which will give you an idea of where the channel came from, and let you manually re-create the channel.

[laymonk]

WOW ... most useful insight ... thanks a million

You saved me many hours of manual effort ... much appreciated

[laymonk]

WOW ... most useful insight ... thanks a million

You saved me many hours of manual effort ... much appreciated