"Orphaned" Entries in RSS & Blogs
feeditems.rdf

I am not sure I understand the purpose of the feeditems.rdf file in my 
RSS & Blogs account. But I note that even after I have removed a feed 
from this account, I still find MANY entries in this file that refer to 
the feed that has been removed.

I remove a feed using a 2-step process:

(a) Using the Subscribe dialog, I locate and open (press the +) of the 
feed's "folder". I then select the single item inside (which seems to
be 
the feed itself) and press the Remove button. As near as I can tell, 
this does nothing - the folder and the "feed" remain as-is in this
dialog.

(b) Then I use the folder pane to delete the feed's "folder" there. It

goes into the trash folder and I can empty it from the trash.

After this, I check on disk as see that the .msf and data file for the 
feed are indeed gone. I look inside the feeds.rdf file and find no 
references to the deleted feed. However, there are plenty of them left 
in the feeditems.rdf file and this seems strange to me.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to "clean" the
feeditems.rdf 
file?

On 16-04-2008 23:34 CET, whitedavidp@fastmail.us composed this 
enchanting statement:
> I am not sure I understand the purpose of the feeditems.rdf file in my 
> RSS & Blogs account. But I note that even after I have removed a feed 
> from this account, I still find MANY entries in this file that refer 
> to the feed that has been removed.
>
> I remove a feed using a 2-step process:
>
> (a) Using the Subscribe dialog, I locate and open (press the +) of the 
> feed's "folder". I then select the single item inside (which
seems to 
> be the feed itself) and press the Remove button. As near as I can 
> tell, this does nothing - the folder and the "feed" remain as-is
in 
> this dialog.
>
> (b) Then I use the folder pane to delete the feed's "folder"
there. It 
> goes into the trash folder and I can empty it from the trash.
>
> After this, I check on disk as see that the .msf and data file for the 
> feed are indeed gone. I look inside the feeds.rdf file and find no 
> references to the deleted feed. However, there are plenty of them left 
> in the feeditems.rdf file and this seems strange to me.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to "clean" the 
> feeditems.rdf file?
>
> Thanks.

The two-step approach is fine. I can confirm that feeditems.rdf contains 
items of feeds that were removed this way.
That's a bug, I think. Have to search bugzilla.mozilla.org for it.
To get it right, you probably need to delete the items from the list, 
before removing the subscription.

-- 
Kind regards,
Melchert