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When I publish an RSS feed for one of my PogoPlug folders and a user subscribes to the feed with Google Reader, the feed appears to syndicate properly. However, when they click on the link in the RSS feed, they get a download of a file with an useless, nonsensical alphanumeric file name with no file extension either. This doesn't seem very useful.
Is there a way feeds can keep the file name of their shared source or at the VERY least, keep a file extension so the use doesn't doesn't have to guess at what to use to open the file? Thanks.
I think that might be a Google reader issue. If you take the RSS feed and just load into Explorer it works fine. You can Right-Click save etc.
It also looks like Google reader does that to MP3s and *.DOC files but not to JPGs. Go figure.. :)
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Accessing the feed through IE's built in feed reader is slightly better (only spaces get mangled in code/symbols).
Hey, PogoPlug guys... don't you think it sort of defeats the purpose of an RSS feed, having to plug the resulting URLs in another RSS Reader to access them? After all, Google Reader is a huge share of the RSS market.
Haha, used RSS for the first time yesterday to grab static links to files, and immediately copied them into is.gd to make more sense of them. Yeah, the filenames need to be better organized, or at least have the option to "shorten URL" or something along those lines. Just my two cents.
This happens to the linked filename as well when using the Mac Mail.app as my RSS reader. Useless feature at this point...
Not sure "might be a Google reader issue" is a plausible explanation. After all Google Reader is processing almost 300 other RSS feeds in my account alone just fine (and who know how many globally).
Would have gotten a lot more mileage out of fixng the RSS bugs instead of making PogoPlug all Twitter active. Please don't fall into the development trap of adding more and more new stuff before fixng the existing functionality.
The RSS feeds are now shorter and should work with popular RSS readers. I just tried with Google reader and it worked great. Can you try it again and let me know if you are still seeing issues?
I can now subscribe to RSS feeds in Google Reader but the resulting feed isn't really useful. The Title link in the RSS feeds simply leads to http://www.pogoplug.com and the "Direct" link leads to another RSS feed link (not a file or location).
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The problems seems to be with subfolders. If you have subfolders and you subscribe to the folder above them, attempting to access the feed article for those subfolders will simple prompt your Feed Reader to try to subscribe to those subfolders instead.
If you have multiple, nested subfolders this process will repeat itself again and again until you finally drill down to a folder with files instead of folders.
Only monitoring a folder that contains files is pretty useless in a collection of data of any size or complexity, unless your willing to monitor feeds for potentially dozens or hundreds of subfolders.
If folders containing subfolders can be Shared, the same funcationality should be supported for feeds for consistency and just plain practical usability.
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