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App crashes and disappears #1558

Open Tony20221 opened 1 year ago

Tony20221 commented 1 year ago

This app crashes for no apparent reason and it seems it happens when I am moving around in the episodes list. I can handle the crashing once in a while but today after I added a few feeds it crashed and I lost all the new feeds. That was pretty annoying. Luckly I use a clipboard manager.

The app needs to add the new feed to the configuration file as soon as it's added by the user. Don't wait till the app closes to update the file. This way if the app crashes, nothing is lost.

My advice also to the users is that once you added the feeds, close the app right away so that it saves them quickly then relaunch the app.

TheOne320 commented 1 year ago

I am having the same problem. It usually happens when I click through many feeds quickly in succession. The app crashes and it forgets all "read" feeds in the time I went through them. I already reported the problem >4 years ago and it was never fixed. https://github.com/QuiteRSS/quiterss/issues/1091

Rex000 commented 1 year ago

Same issue here. Really sick of this app crashing so often.

jziggy101 commented 1 year ago

Same issues as reported by others. I have it running in the background & when I check on it a few hours later its gone & not running. As I clean posts in the feeds & delete them the app will suddenly shutdown. When restarted any lines deleted or marked 'read' are now back again & read items are listed as non read.
This is a fine app and I really like the flexibility but the bugs are making it hard to enjoy.

Rex000 commented 1 year ago

Yep it's been happening a lot lately. Looks like they have abandoned the app which is a shame because there is no such alternative to it that's as good.

vitusson commented 1 year ago

No such problems at all here on Debian stable

Rex000 commented 1 year ago

Maybe you don't have a lot of feeds. Either that or the app just lost it's compatibility with Windows.

jziggy101 commented 1 year ago

I am running under Windows. I have 28 feeds I pull from. I have gone in and reduced the times during which the updates to the feeds happen hoping that would help but it did not.

jziggy101 commented 1 year ago

Yep it's been happening a lot lately. Looks like they have abandoned the app which is a shame because there is no such alternative to it that's as good.

I agree there is NO other app that is as flexible. I wish they would still be supporting it.

Tony20221 commented 1 year ago

It crashes a lot less if you don't click around too fast. For example, let the preview pane finish rendering before you click somewhere else.

jziggy101 commented 1 year ago

I always wait for the app to no longer say its downloading feeds. I agree if I only delete a few line at a time and then close the app when I open it again those changes are saved. But sometime no matter how slow I do thing in the app it suddenly just closes. I have tried running it as an Administrator but that did not make any difference.

Rex000 commented 1 year ago

It crashes even in the background.

jziggy101 commented 1 year ago

I ran the Windows 10 compatibility check on the QuiteRSS app and it says this app is a Windows 8 application. So I told Windows 10 to always run this app as a Windows 8 app. So far no crashes. I will post any results I get from this testing.

vitusson commented 1 year ago

Maybe you don't have a lot of feeds. Either that or the app just lost it's compatibility with Windows.

Don't know what a lot is. I have 112. But from what I read here, it looks more like a problem on Windows machines.

jziggy101 commented 1 year ago

i was looking thru the app menu options. In the Tools there is an option called Cleanup. I ran that option and there was a great deal of disk activity while the app was running. Then in the Tools section I clicked on 'FEEDS' and I changed some options in there for lower activity and only loading the Feeds less often and setting the date where QuiteRss only loads new feeds after Feb 18 and checked the box "Avoid adding news before the date into the database". I closed the app and once reopened I have not had a sudden closure in 2 days now.

Rex000 commented 1 year ago

Tried all of that still crashes. Sick and tired of this crap and I'm just stuck with it.

ricardonevesmusic commented 8 months ago

Tried all of that still crashes. Sick and tired of this crap and I'm just stuck with it.

If you're on Windows 10, you can try this:

If it doesn't open:

Go to QuiteRss.ini in AppData and switch the option "reopenFeedStartup" from "true" to "false".

I was trying everything (deleting cache, reading the "debug.log", changing "compatibility settings") and the app didn't get past the 90% mark.

So I then suddenly something popped into my head.

Basically I started asking questions, like a problem-solving type of thing.

I asked myself: "What else haven't I tried before?"

And then suddenly an answer came into my head:

"If this app was working fine/right before it started to crash on load/startup, then compatibility settings and all the other stuff I've tried before must not be the issue."

Then something else popped into my head:

"What if I go to "QuiteRss.ini" config file?"

Well ...

I did go there and changed the option "reopenFeedStartup" from "true" to "false".

It turns out that something (the last feed I've opened) must have been corrupted and was causing the software not to launch/start.

The option "reopenFeedStartup" translated to everyday language (or at least one everyone can understand), stands for "Open Last Feed on Startup/Launch" and that's basically what it does.

This fixed the issue for me.

Hope it does it for you.