[Rssbandit-developers] [ rssbandit-Bugs-1642923 ] settings ignored, entire computer slowed

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Bugs item #1642923, was opened at 2007-01-23 21:37
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Category: Podcasts/Enclosures
Group: v1.5.0.x (beta versions)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: John Meyer (jmeyer43)
Assigned to: Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life)
Summary: settings ignored, entire computer slowed

Initial Comment:
upon starting RSSBandit, the UI blocks while podcasts are downloaded into the Cache directory, despite settings to put them elsewhere.  (Non-podcast downloads do go to the correct folder.)  It also ignores time settings, I found downloads this afternoon of podcasts from 2005 in feeds that I have set to whack anything older than 30 days.  Finally I turned the download option off, but it hasn't had any effect (I'll report back if it stops downloading after I restart RSSBandit, but because the UI block mentioned above is between 1 and 2 hours on my work PC, I'll wait until I get home where the wait is usually less than 30 minutes.  (I run off a USB key... so I'm babysitting it every 15 or 20 minutes deleting the garbage downloads so I don't get a disk full error).

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>Comment By: Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life)
Date: 2007-01-28 14:52

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 Continuing from the BITS problem
(http://www.rssbandit.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1720), I found that BITS
still tries to download the files even after I deleted the folder
(C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\RssBandit\download.registry).

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Comment By: Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life)
Date: 2007-01-28 14:50

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Another data point from
http://www.rssbandit.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1700

" Although the "Total disk space" limit is 1024 MB, the RSS Bandit cache
directory takes up 14.6 GB. I've been forced to turn off the feature.

 C:\Documents and Settings\Zian Choy\Local Settings\Application
Data\RssBandit\Cache

All of the ones with attachments. I don't think it was feed specific.
Regardless, here are some of the space hoggers:
Channel9
ScobleShow
Clearification"

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Comment By: Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life)
Date: 2007-01-25 18:48

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I think I found the problem. We have a setting to only download the last N
most recent podcasts (where N is an integer value) on initially subscribing
to a feed to prevent filling up your harddrive. It seems there was a bug
where this setting wasn't being respected. 

I've made a fix in the current code base and will test it this weekend. 

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Comment By: John Meyer (jmeyer43)
Date: 2007-01-25 18:16

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performance is much better now, but...

wow, what a difference a day makes... for the last 2 days, when I ran
RSSbandit at home, it wouldn't load my feed list, so I couldn't read
anything, even though I'd get the baloons telling me how many unread... so
at lunch today, I backed up my RSSbandit folder, reinstalled the RC on my
thumb drive, removed the thumb drive, and removed any trace of RSSbandit on
both computers, including a registry search for "rssbandit".  Then I added
the 2 lines to the app.config file to change my settings & cache location,
restored those folders from the backup (which included the settings to NOT
download podcasts), put the thumb drive in my work PC (the one with the net
connection and the slow dog described above), and ran RSSbandit.exe...

bam, instant on, like before the beta... what I believe to be the culprit
is what I found in my profile's AppSettings directory: and
Rssbandit\download.registry folder, with hundreds of files in it, dated
from the day I changed to the first beta all the way to this morning before
the uninstall/reinstall.  It's now been running about 15 minutes with
podcatching still turned off from some days ago and there's no temp files,
download.registry is also empty, but there are a few MP3s and MP4s in the
Cache directory that were not there when I did the backup/restore (from the
2 NASAcast feeds, but all files are newer than the 1 month cutoff I have
for displaying old entries).

I will add another comment tomorrow after I've ran it on both computers
without podcatching, then with it on on both.  Although obviously there's
something still not quite right with RSSbandit (the double AppSettings, and
acting on the dl.registry in spite of settings to the contrary), I really
feel silly for not checking to see if there was an Rssbandit folder under
my profile's AppSettings sooner.  I knew there shouldn't be one and knew
there was one where it should be that was being used, and well... hopefully
this info will actually be useful in finding whatever the issue is.

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Comment By: John Meyer (jmeyer43)
Date: 2007-01-24 00:50

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1. Several feeds... including 43Folders, President's Saturday Radio
Address (these were all the way back to March 2005 when I shut down this
afternoon), MS Going Deep, ARcast... also, there were Mininova torrent not
found files collecting in C:\Xfer but no torrents anywhere (I have several
feeds from TVrss for shows the wife doesn't like to watch with me)
2. Download attachments to C:\Xfer, move podcasts to C:\Xfer\Netcasts, max
3 attachments for new feeds, 1024 max storage
3. 1 month for all podcast feeds, 1 feed (DevExpress knowledge base) is
forever, news feeds (AP, digg, etc.) are 1 week

For #1 I can give you a more specific answer later, I have a NetMeeting in
a few minutes... this install is running off a USB key set to the M: drive
on all computers I use regularly... M:\Portable Apps\RSS Bandit\Application
Data\Cache is the tree for settings and the Cache, it's a 1GB drive about
2/3 full

I could upload a zip with any or all of this if it would help... one thing
I could also try is a clean install (I installed the beta over the latest
release and the RC over that)

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Comment By: Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life)
Date: 2007-01-23 21:46

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Can you answer the following questions 

1.) What feeds had this problem? 

2.) What were your podcast settings? 

3.) What are your feed settings (specifically 'Remove Items Older Than')? 

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