The silence is deafening
After moving to the new PowerBook, my NetNewsWire susbscriptions failed to make the hike over. Not quite sure why, I haven’t really looked at it (copied over my NetNewsWire application support folder, but there must be more..). Anyway, I’ve really noticed how much I use NetNewsWire to stay in touch these days. Thanks Brent!
I have no idea what’s going on in non-world-newsdom. Must. Export. Subscriptions.
While I’m exporting, I’m tossing around the idea of open-source subscriptions. I’ll trim off the personal feeds I track (paid Technorati listings and such), but leave most everything else intact. It’d be fun to get a few others to jump in, akin to the show-your-dock meme. Thoughts?
The NNW subscriptions are contained in the com.ranchero.NetNewsWire.plist file under ~/Library/Preferences. I just switched my machine’s primary OS over to Panther the other day and was also surprised when the Application Support folder didn’t carry my subscriptions over. Anyway, if you can still get to that, it will restore your subscriptions.
Hi Jon — Buzz was totally right about copying over the prefs file. That’s where subscriptions are stored.
I just put up a post on inessential.com that goes into some more detail:
http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2675
Woo! Thanks Buzz! All my subs are now in place. No problem getting to it, I haven’t done anything to the drive in the old tower. Just logged in via Airport and sucked it over. I put Panther on the laptop a few minutes after I took it out of the box, so I was able to kill two birds with one stone.
Jon, I’d be down with posting my OPML file, that would rock.
Mine can be found here:
http://www.syndic8.com/userinfo.php?UserID=wkearney99&Section=lists
Exportable in several formats.
My Subscriptions
I’m heeding Jon’s call to action to share RSS subscriptions. Another of his posts explains how to share your subscriptions as either an OPML file that can be directly imported into NetNewsWire or as an HTML table. I’m choosing to skip the work to make …