[OU] Delete feeds?

[Ledgem]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:06:27 -0700, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/17/07, CJ <hwoodcj at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I've got 523 feeds, and I want to delete them all (because they
>> immobilize Opera). Is there an easy way to do that? Maybe delete
>> the file (what's its name)? I tried importing an empty .opml file
>> and Opera just added that to what I already had (didn't substitute).
>
> Lucky guess: what about <ctrl>a and <del> afterwards? Be sure to
> enable the "forever" period.
>
> Regards,
> Liviu

This would work if he's trying to delete stories from the feeds themselves. I did a quick check and if he's dealing with actual feeds, there doesn't seem to be a way to select multiple of those at once, and I'm pretty sure that Opera prompts you before deleting the feed. Doing that 500+ times would certainly take a while. The brute-force way to do this would be to use some macro program to handle the select-delete-click OK-select-delete etc. cycle - if you're on Mac OS there's the Automator. If on Windows, the macro software I used was quite old and was called Groone's Macroer. I don't know if it's available anymore... the learning curve isn't terrible, I'd recommend playing with it for about 20 minutes and letting it do a simple task a few times before setting it to the task on Opera.

While some newer macroers can recognize window titles and such, Groone's worked by screen pixel coordinates. So if it deleted all of the feeds, it's continue trying to follow the routine unless you either manually stopped it or had specified a loop count. Think of Mickey and the brooms from Fantasia - you don't want that to be you :)

David