OPML Editor support:

Version 0.48 has technology for synchronizing installations

Here's the scenario, suppose you have the OPML Editor (or compatible, someday there will probably be compatibles) installed on more than one machine. When you set up the second copy, you want to have all your public files installed there too. In fact, some people expect this to just work (a clue that it would be a worthwhile feature).

So over the last few days while in Cambridge, I programmed the core of this facility, but did not wire it up to any user interface, because I wanted a few geekish users to try it out first, before inflicting it on any users.

If you're pretty technical and want to give it a try, here's what to do:

1. From the Windows desktop, open My Documents, then copy the folder named OPML to a safe place, in case anything goes wrong. This is a very important step.

2. Bring the OPML Editor to the front, Jump to dotOpmlSuite.folderWatcher.getFilesChangedSince. Click on Run. It will automatically download all the files you uploaded since July 1, 2005. You can try changing the date if you like to see what happens.

3. Choose Open Log Outline from the Community menu. There should be two entries there. One quick one, that says how many files are to be downloaded, and another reporting that the files were downloaded.

How to report

I thought we'd use the new OPML-Code-Review mail list, but no one has signed up yet, so report the result as a comment here, or on the OPML-Support mail list. I need confirmation that it works oin a few people's machines before proceeding.

If you really want to do a thorough test, install a fresh copy of the OPML Editor somewhere, Get Latest Code, and then try to get your files following the instructions above.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 7/18/05; 4:55:46 PM - --