Discuss Vivaldi's built-in Mail, Calendar and Feeds clients.

<p dir="auto">Hi all,</p> <p dir="auto">New to Vivaldi here, just downloaded and was checking feed, in one of the videos I watched it showed that youtube could be added as feed, however when checking the preview, it gives me the error attached. Is it because I'm new and I still need reputation like mail or is it a bug?<br /> <img alt="cd90e745-4ef3-441a-8229-fc3453b21a9f-image.jpeg" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1776650355785-cd90e745-4ef3-441a-8229-fc3453b21a9f-image.jpeg" /></p>

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<p dir="auto"><strong>If you have lost or corrupted RSS Feed posts you wanted to save, but are too old for the Parent Blog to send them anymore, there may be a way to get them back!</strong></p> <p dir="auto"><em>Revision 5: Feb 3, 2024, 14:30Z</em></p> <ul> <li><strong>Seeking Tranquility in the Face of Feed-deleting Remedies</strong></li> </ul> <p dir="auto">Many of the remedies called for in this guide ask you to delete Feeds from Vivaldi while on a path to restoring your complete NewsFeed health. You may have trepidation doing this. What you can do to relieve this anxiety is check the "WayBack Machine" to see if your Feed is captured in the time periods you are concerned with (or perhaps even for the entire life of the Feed). Simply go to <a href="http://web.archive.org" rel="nofollow ugc">web.archive.org</a> and type the address of the Feed in question into the textbox in the page header and press enter. Here is an example using <a href="http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default:" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default:</a></p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="3b49804a-1b05-4577-be2c-6e9c52fb93f4-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706923991999-3b49804a-1b05-4577-be2c-6e9c52fb93f4-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">If you get a timeline as a result, and the capture dates displayed are about the time period(s) you want to keep, you can take a deep breath because you will be able to restore your Feed, Feed deletion notwithstanding...</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="5020968c-e541-4238-a802-accf89b0bfa0-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706924047676-5020968c-e541-4238-a802-accf89b0bfa0-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">You can use the first of two methods provided here to restore your Feed to be healthy and normal within Vivaldi.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Uncaptured Feeds</strong></li> </ul> <p dir="auto">If the WayBack Machine did not capture your Feed (i.e. you get no timeline or no timeline where you need it), you may not be able to restore the older posts in the Feed to the Vivaldi Feed itself. If restarted from scratch, most Feeds will only restore the most recent posts but the older ones may perish if you delete the Feed. If this is your case, use the second of two approaches given below which restores the posts outside of Vivaldi.</p> <hr /> <p dir="auto"><strong>First Method: "All-in-One"</strong></p> <p dir="auto">Use this method if you have confirmed the WayBack Machine has captured your Feed on or near the Feed historic dates you want to keep. This method is capable of restoring the entire lifetime of the Feed into the same Feed listing which Vivaldi is now keeping current. What's better than that?.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Backing up Vivaldi Data</strong></li> </ul> <p dir="auto">And now a brief word from our sponsor.... On advice from our Moderator Community, please make a backup of your <a href="https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/full-reset-of-vivaldi/#Backup_Vivaldi_data" rel="nofollow ugc">Vivaldi profile folder</a> before executing this method. Note that Feed data is not sync'd. Personally, I include my Vivaldi profile in my weekly PC image backup.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Database Error Detected</strong></li> </ul> <p dir="auto">First, if your Feed panel or Feed settings dialog says "Database Error Detected", you must first clear that error before proceeding with this approach, or else it will interfere with the re-addition of the historic posts you seek. Even the addition of today's new posts fresh from the site is an unreliable affair at best while this condition persists. My experience is that the Database error is cleared when you delete one or two offending Feed entries in the Feed Settings dialog. It is likely that the Feed for which you are seeking history on is the same Feed messing up the database, so it's a good bet that deleting that one will clear the database condition.</p> <p dir="auto">In some circumstances, Vivaldi may indicate which Feed is causing the problem in the Feed Settings interface feed list if the user scrolls through item-by-item. There is at least one report in this topic which cites a retrieval error rather than an actual database error causing "Database Error Detected" to appear. <strong>Check if all your feed URLs remain accurate.</strong></p> <p dir="auto">In the absence of such an indicator, usually the user or their conscience knows which Feed(s) caused the database error. Another approach is to delete the Feeds in the reverse order they were created. Again, you don’t need to worry about Feed deletion if the WayBack Machine has got you covered.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Restore Feeds</strong></li> </ul> <p dir="auto">Once the database error(s) is/are cleared, you can try reinstating the deleted Feed and then use the "Restore Feeds" button and see if everything falls into place correctly and you get your historic posts back. There have been reports with older Vivaldi versions that a number of restarts is needed to see this through - not sure if this is the case with the current 6.5, but there is, in any event, a lag for the full restoration to be realized, so please allow it ample time to show results.</p> <p dir="auto">If you do not have the Database problem annunciated on your Feed panel/Feed settings dialog, try the "Restore Feeds" button in the Feed Settings dialog. If a Feed in Vivaldi is corrupted such that the "Restore Feeds" is not successful in restoring all the older historic posts you want, you will need to delete that Feed and then recreate it (if you haven't already done so for the aforementioned Database error(s)) as a new Feed entry. Upon re-creation, it is highly likely the source site may only send you the most recent posts, and anything else older than that which you wanted to keep is no longer accessible.</p> <ul> <li> <p dir="auto"><strong>What follows is a technique to recover those older posts and have them once again reside within the same Feed as the current Feed.</strong></p> </li> <li> <p dir="auto"><strong>There is also a secondary method given below the primary which recovers the posts contents and links outside of Vivaldi.</strong></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="auto">With this approach you can restore any or all Feed captures that the WayBack Machine has to your current active Feed, fully restoring its health.</p> <p dir="auto">The first step is to delete the Feed, and then recreate it with the known address. Proceed after the Feed has gathered its most recent posts into Vivaldi.</p> <p dir="auto">Go to <a href="http://web.archive.org" rel="nofollow ugc">web.archive.org</a>, also known as the "WayBack Machine" (named after a frequented fictitious time machine in the 1959 American cartoon series "Rocky and Bullwinkle"):</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="55dd59ea-fc1d-4213-a085-a83471399a3f-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706488790821-55dd59ea-fc1d-4213-a085-a83471399a3f-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Fortunately this website crawls over and saves many other websites periodically.</p> <p dir="auto">Incidentally, here is the original WABAC machine:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="21e8e4de-c220-45a1-87fa-2a1028e13c9a-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706493395875-21e8e4de-c220-45a1-87fa-2a1028e13c9a-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Go to your Feed list in Vivaldi and copy to the clipboard the URL of the feed in question:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="a02e2eea-bd50-49a3-bbb1-1c98d2f3bd84-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706489461014-a02e2eea-bd50-49a3-bbb1-1c98d2f3bd84-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">In this case the URL is <a href="http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default</a>. Note the Feed is a couple of layers below the blog domain in this case, which will show the resiliency of this method.</p> <p dir="auto">Paste the URL in the WayBack Machines' textbox:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="012cf99c-9921-4b9b-86a9-6357f10979c1-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706489655113-012cf99c-9921-4b9b-86a9-6357f10979c1-image.png" />.</p> <p dir="auto">Hit enter and wait for the timeline to appear.</p> <p dir="auto">Here we see the blog's URL was captured 25 times between Jul 27, 2011 and Nov 28, 2023:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="c8f2a4d9-ebc0-4e51-867f-afd529118a40-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706489793197-c8f2a4d9-ebc0-4e51-867f-afd529118a40-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Let's say we want to get the earliest posts to his blog. First, click on the year 2011, and a 2011 calendar will then appear below the timeline. In that calendar, the captured dates will be highlighted. In this case the earliest capture is Jul 27, 2011:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="5ae1788e-9ebb-49fc-b0df-a9d0bc75b9d1-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706490211339-5ae1788e-9ebb-49fc-b0df-a9d0bc75b9d1-image.png" /> .</p> <p dir="auto">Hovering over the 27th, we then click on the time of the capture:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="44c603df-d4d0-4c8c-a470-e879ae88ccf9-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706490306667-44c603df-d4d0-4c8c-a470-e879ae88ccf9-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">In few seconds, the XML feed data will appear in the Vivaldi tab:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="a393a577-427d-4134-b1a5-7c128d6bcd88-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706490502405-a393a577-427d-4134-b1a5-7c128d6bcd88-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">A helpful navigation bar is also presented at the top to navigate to the other captures.</p> <p dir="auto">Then it is a matter of simply pasting the URL in the white navigation bar into a new Vivaldi Feed address field. It is actually a sort of "dual URL": <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007151134/http:/lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default" rel="nofollow ugc">https://web.archive.org/web/20111007151134/http:/lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default</a>.</p> <p dir="auto">Going back to the Feed settings, change the Feed address to be that "dual URL":</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="f27f6452-303c-4b0f-aa82-ab7638ba5029-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706490885146-f27f6452-303c-4b0f-aa82-ab7638ba5029-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Then click on the "Save" and "Update all Feeds" buttons.</p> <p dir="auto">If everything is healthy these old posts will appear as a result. Here are the posts that came into Vivaldi for this example:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="44ab4e43-d311-4398-b7ec-919f1b1590e9-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706491246220-44ab4e43-d311-4398-b7ec-919f1b1590e9-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Now, click on the blue back or blue forward arrow in the WayBack Machines page header and wait for the XML data to update. :</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="54a811aa-e225-4815-bb99-966b101b7c2e-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706924800886-54a811aa-e225-4815-bb99-966b101b7c2e-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Then copy the new overall page address in the Vivaldi tab to your clipboard, similarly another "dual URL"</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="06c77df0-1869-4198-ad37-a881e13d4045-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706924867858-06c77df0-1869-4198-ad37-a881e13d4045-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">...and paste it to a separate new URL list outside of Vivaldi:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="4d2a1efc-b8d2-455a-b6ad-c48d2cf71211-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706924910892-4d2a1efc-b8d2-455a-b6ad-c48d2cf71211-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Continue to click one-at-a-time on the WayBack Machines arrows and copy and paste the resulting URLs to the external list:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="4dd158a5-4025-43bd-83e5-83c98a1877fc-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706924963879-4dd158a5-4025-43bd-83e5-83c98a1877fc-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Do this until you have recorded all the URLS for the WayBack Machines' capture dates you want to see in your final Feed.</p> <p dir="auto">Once you have all these URLs recorded in a Vivaldi-external list, go back to the Feed Setting dialog box and paste in the address field of your Feed the first URL you recorded on the external list:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="cc5128f6-9b96-4d8d-a715-6e8b3b2b66bc-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706925013367-cc5128f6-9b96-4d8d-a715-6e8b3b2b66bc-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">You must completely erase the contents of this field before you paste. Once pasted in, click on the "Save" button and then the "Update all Fields" button.</p> <p dir="auto">In a few seconds, you should get a notifier telling you new posts have been received. If you now look at your mail panel, this Feed will now have the first and second timeline posts you added in conjunction with the modern current posts. Happy Day! <strong>Congratulations!</strong></p> <p dir="auto">Repeat this process for every URL on the external list: paste over the URL in the address field with the next URL, Save, Update, and wait for the incoming posts. Don't get ahead of the post deliveries.</p> <p dir="auto">Once you have completed this for all the URLs on the external list, be sure to reinstate the normal feed address in the address field of the Feed and Save:</p> <p dir="auto"><img alt="0319322b-3687-4584-a23c-32fe94140de1-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706925051433-0319322b-3687-4584-a23c-32fe94140de1-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Voilà! Your Feed now has the historic posts you needed, is healthy, and updates itself to be current, all-in-one.</p> <hr /> <p dir="auto"><strong>An Alternative Method for Recovering the Content of Old Lost/Corrupted Feed Posts</strong></p> <p dir="auto">If :<br /> • the WayBack Machine does not capture your Feed, or<br /> • you don't want to deal with de-corrupting the Feed database or<br /> • you don't care about whether the older posts you seek appear in the Vivaldi Feed displays,</p> <p dir="auto">...you can try reading the old post files directly from your operating system's folder listings. This method will give you the post texts and their embedded hyperlinks, but you will have to copy and paste them somewhere else outside of Vivaldi to record them. In this example, I will show how it is done in Windows.</p> <p dir="auto">Even though Vivaldi cannot find these older posts and list them out for you in the intended format, <strong>the good news is the posts are still there in your profile in a readable fashion.</strong></p> <p dir="auto">Click on the "Reveal Data Folder" in the Vivaldi Feed Settings dialog:<br /> <img alt="7518d042-2d3d-4d5d-a4e6-238afc31bc80-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706748245144-7518d042-2d3d-4d5d-a4e6-238afc31bc80-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">A new tab will appear in your browser that will list the contents of the folder containing all your Feed messages. It does <strong>exclude all mail</strong> despite the parent folder's namesake. The Feed "data" folder revealed will be the same no matter which Feed is selected in dialog:<br /> <img alt="27aa12f4-734f-4fe8-a93a-ce8d854b82ee-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706748659906-27aa12f4-734f-4fe8-a93a-ce8d854b82ee-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Vivaldi stores the feed content in a very organized fashion: top tier is year, next layer down month, and the second layer down date. It is important to recognize these are "data" folders only and not the "database" itself. Now open this folder in your operating system's folder listing:<br /> <img alt="092b212d-26fd-48a0-8816-6cb07de6cfc6-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706748933905-092b212d-26fd-48a0-8816-6cb07de6cfc6-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">You can now navigate to any date for which there was Feed text and see what that that text was, and even what links it contained. Once you get down to the post level, the post files are saved in ".eml" (email) file format:<br /> <img alt="411e1e2a-50bc-48a7-a3af-1c36be589b6d-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706749126865-411e1e2a-50bc-48a7-a3af-1c36be589b6d-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">These .eml files should be readable by an external email program, such as Outlook. Opening the .eml file and observe the post you lost:<br /> <img alt="a928553f-bf66-4e79-8db5-5a4808e6e406-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" src="/assets/uploads/files/1706749282392-a928553f-bf66-4e79-8db5-5a4808e6e406-image.png" /></p> <p dir="auto">Note that the email header will always be completely blank, so you are relying on the contained folder hierarchy to date the post. You will have to decide which Feed the post belongs to by reading it. Simple enough.</p> <p dir="auto"><strong>Warning</strong> - do not make the mistake of re-organizing this .eml file and folder structure believing if will fix the damaged database. These files only tell Vivaldi what a post says once the database has pointed to it. Since you can't fix the database, you cannot fix the damaged Feed listings. Manipulating this file and folder structure will result in your database pointing to data it cannot find and <strong>results in what were good posts now appearing blank.</strong> Be content you have resurfaced the date and content and leave it at that.</p> <p dir="auto">--<br /> <code>ModEdit: Title | Added to Guide | list</code><br /> Author Edit Jan 31, 2024 4:00Z: Added database error paragraphs.<br /> Author Appended with alternate method and added editorial note Feb 1, 2024 5:30Z<br /> Author Rewrite Feb 3 0:55Z<br /> Author appended Database Error section Feb 4, 2024 13:30Z<br /> Rev 5: Author added Backup Data section per Moderator request Feb 4, 2024 14:30Z</p>

<p dir="auto">Hello, I am very happy to see the feeds feature decoupled from mails and I would be very interested in using my browser as a feed reader since it would let me remove one extra program running on my computer, as currently I use another application to do that. However the only thing keeping me from doing that is I need a few feeds to have 1 minute refresh time since their content is sometimes time sensitive and as we can't set the refresh time to anything below 15 minutes I cannot use vivaldi for this purpose.</p> <p dir="auto">If you could let the user decide the refresh time or at least add an option for a 1 minute refresh time I would switch to using vivaldi as my RSS reader.</p>

<p dir="auto">I can't find my old <a href="http://vivaldi.net" rel="nofollow ugc">vivaldi.net</a> blog, it went from my opera and now I would like to recover my articles.</p> <p dir="auto">I know it was <a href="https://fcojesus-gil.vivaldi.net" rel="nofollow ugc">https://fcojesus-gil.vivaldi.net</a></p>

<p dir="auto">Is it possible to add a post from a feed in the Feeds feature to the "Reading List" without opening the web page first? This would help sync the articles I'd like to read easily across my devices.</p>

<p dir="auto">Hello, I have been a Vivaldi user since the beginning of this project, what's more, I have been a follower of the work of the founders of Vivaldi, since long before they left Opera and I would like to continue using this browser for many years because for now it is the only one that meets all my exacting demands. It's just great.</p> <p dir="auto">Okay, after this little introduction, you can imagine how excited I was to discover that Vivaldi was going to restore one of the most wonderful tools that version 12 of Opera had: Its integrated RSS reader. I really have been very happy with it.</p> <p dir="auto">But now, I have a problem. I need to format one of my two computers and, as for some unknown reason Vivaldi does not synchronize the feeds between all the browsers of the same account, nor does it allow the feeds to be exported as well as their logs, I am being forced to look for very useful alternative RSS tools. To my regret, but from what I have seen, I have not found any tool that allows me to classify messages manually by color marks in the same way that vivaldi allows. And that is a problem for me.</p> <p dir="auto">Basically, the perfect RSS reader for me is the one in which I can: first of all, not worry about losing the RSS records of the feeds, being able to even see publications prior to the feed subscription, if not all; and on the other hand, organize the feeds alphabetically by folders or themes, and apart from that you can classify the publications by themes through the use of brands (Flags) and labels. Since I use the marks to classify themes and the labels I use them to classify types or sub-themes. For example:<br /> Purple flag: "Space"<br /> Label "History"<br /> Well, all publications would be filtered regardless of the source that have a space theme, and are of a historical nature. Doing it this way, it's very visual to locate the information you want at the time you want it.</p> <p dir="auto">In that sense, I only need that, but it has been impossible for me to locate an rss that does it, so I publish this post, with the purpose that either the Vivaldi developers update the tool with the possibility of synchronizing the feeds between browsers of the same account, or allow all that data to be exported, in order to be retrieved again in the Vivaldi browser.</p> <p dir="auto">In my case, due to this lack, I am going to be forced to delete an 8-month-old RSS record, and I believe that users should not be forced to do so, especially since many of us use it as a reference tool for our investigations.</p> <p dir="auto">My question parallel to the above is:<br /> In case Vivaldi doesn't plan to improve this tool...Is there an alternative that is pretty much the same as Vivaldi's RSS but the data can be exported and kept safe from user hardware or software failure?</p> <p dir="auto">I have looked at quite a few RSSReaders and I have tried Feedly and Inoreader, because being a website it does not matter where you access it from, but not having the possibility of classifying the publications by brands (flags) and requiring automated filters to put labels on the publications I find them quite cumbersome to use.</p> <p dir="auto">If someone can help me I will be very grateful because I don't know what else to do. <img alt="😢" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-emoji-one emoji--crying_face" src="https://forum.vivaldi.net/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/emoji-one/1f622.png?v=4fdad4d85b9" style="height: 23px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle;" title=":'(" /></p> <p dir="auto">Please improve this tool. * . *</p>

<p dir="auto">it's bad news, my vivaldi blog was suspended, I was merely sharing some information about AI, OpenWRT, email, cloudflare etc. in past four days, anyone can tell me what's wrong?</p>