Articles duplicated into multiple subscription folders

[Hodnettd]

This is a hard problem to describe so bear with me:

I have several group folders, each of which contain subscription feeds grouped by themes. For example, I have a general "Mac News" group with subscriptions to the various sites such as World of Apple, TUAW, etc. I also have a general "Software Development" group with their associated subscriptions, such as Cocoa with Love and Mac Research. I think this setup is fairly close to how many people do it.

The bug (part 1): articles that normally show up in the TUAW subscription, within the Mac News group, are also showing up in the Cocoa with Love folder, within the Soft Dev group BUT that article is not necessarily showing up in the Mac Research folder within the Soft Dev group, or the World of Apple subscription in the News group. Not all articles are duplicated either. There's no obvious pattern within the UI; I have to open each subscription and review the list of articles to spot the duplicates.

The bug (part 2): if I click on the duplicate article and select "open subscription home page", Vienna loads the web page associated with the parent subscription: an extraneous TUAW article in the Cocoa with Love folder loads the Cocoa with Love RSS feed page whereas the "open article page" goes to the TUAW article itself. This behavior may be intentional with the assumption that all articles within a subscription are guaranteed to be associated with that subscription.

What I'm looking for:

For part 1: is there a better way to describe this bug? I.e., does Vienna have a diagnostic log that would explain these behaviors (and can be forwarded to the developers)?

For part 2: is there a known remedy other than manually pruning articles? There doesn't appear to be an easy way to select an article and see at a glance which subscription page it's really from, i.e., I cannot click on the duplicate article and see that it really belongs with the TUAW feed.

[masch]

There doesn't appear to be an easy way to select an article and see at a glance which subscription page it's really from, i.e., I cannot click on the duplicate article and see that it really belongs with the TUAW feed.

I don't know if that helps when the stuff is mixed up like in your case, but what about "View"->"Columns"->"Folders", does this get the correct subscription page ? If not it should be at least doable by enabling "View"->"Columns"->"Link", then you can sort by Article URLs and should be able to easily filter out the wrong ones from other domains.

Or am I missing something ?

[Hodnettd]

...what about "View"->"Columns"->"Folders", does this get the correct subscription page ?

Unfortunately, no. This returns the subscription page of the parent folder (I think). In this example, if the TUAW article is incorrectly filed in the Cocoa with Love subscription folder, the folder entry within the folder column for the article points to Cocoa with Love.

I am starting to think that Vienna assumes that all articles within a subscription folder are guaranteed to be from that subscription and simply displays the same folder link within the UI, and Vienna will not save a folder with each article in the database. If this is not the case and the database schema does say that for every tuple in the article table, there is a folder column, then there definitely is a bug somewhere.

...If not it should be at least doable by enabling "View"->"Columns"->"Link", then you can sort by Article URLs and should be able to easily filter out the wrong ones from other domains.

That did exactly what I needed Vienna to do. Thank you very much.

I should emphasize that the link option shows the link to the article URL as Masch stated. In my specific case, because the two feeds in the same group (one good, one bad) are coming from different domains or in the case of Google's FeedProxy, different usernames, it is easy to see at a glance which articles belong and which articles I should delete. For my purposes, this works and I'm happy.

If someone else runs into this same problem and his two feeds are from the same domain/username as the case may be with feeds that use URL shorteners, this solution may not work out so well.

I don't think this needs to be fixed right away. I think this is something the development team should keep in mind when they start work on Vienna version 3.0, assuming 3.0 will be the "we will rewrite and optimize a lot of Vienna" version.

[autumnmist]

I just wanted to say that ever since I updated to Vienna 2.5, I have been noticing this/a similar bug and it's driving me crazy because the duplicates are making my unread article count go sky-high. For me, articles are actually being duplicated and showing up multiple times (once in the proper feed and once in a selection of other feeds). Also the articles that are being duplicated are often old ones (from 2009 and earlier).

I'm not sure what is causing this bug, but it's definitely new to 2.5. Also it appears that the feeds are being duplicated even if the "correct" feed and the incorrect feed are in different folders.