Checking bookmarks for changes

[Thomas E Burton]

Dan,

I'm using release 5.0.1 (not a beta), but perhaps the following 
applies. I too set a faster refresh rate to RSS feeds: hourly compared 
to daily or weekly for most pages. Works as expected for BBC, NYTimes, 
and WSJ, but some sites don't. Spot checks reveal that, when I force an 
update, nothing changes. My guess is that some sites don't update their 
feeds as often as your setting and, when OmniWeb checks for an update 
and finds none, it does not update the date and time on the info panel, 
in effect telling you "I looked but nothing changed, so don't bother to 
click here." So you might think that OmniWeb didn't check, but I 
suspect it did.

Tom Burton

On Jan 3, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Dan Carlson wrote:

> For the past few months, there's been something nebulous that's been 
> nagging me about OmniWeb 5.  It's unconditionally great, and I 
> absolutely love it, but something seemed off every once in a while.  
> And I finally realized what the problem is -- the automatic checking 
> for refreshed links isn't working according to the schedule I've set.
>
> Specifically, I keep all of my RSS feeds in a bookmark folder called 
> "News Feeds".  I've set the "News Feeds" folder to check for changes 
> every hour.  But at most, I've noticed that I'm getting updates once 
> or twice per day.  And so I often end up opening the bookmarks window 
> and manually telling OmniWeb to update the links.  But this can 
> sometimes get a little annoying, though I never even really thought 
> too much about it.
>
> Is there any indication that the auto-update of RSS feeds isn't 
> working properly?  Do I have a setting improperly established?  What's 
> wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Carlson
> (Using OmniWeb 5.1b5)
>
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