Can’t move feeds between folders that have the same name (one of them is a subfolder of another folder). If you delete one of the folders, the subfolder with the same name also gets deleted.
Moving feeds from “Folder” to the subfolder “Folder” does not work, nothing happens. Deleting “Folder” also deletes the subfolder with the same name.
It’s usually not a good idea (even more so with online services) to have multiple folders with the same names. Most operating systems can tolerate it (duplicate sub-folders) but it has been known to create problems for emergency file recovery in some cases.
You might want to try this:
1- move messages/content to temporary folders (each with a different name)
2- then erase all of the folders with duplicated names
3- create new folders where you need them (with slightly different names)
4- move the messages/content back where they belong
You might need to get creative with your naming but it will save you many headaches going forward.
Hope this helped a bit.
Let’s say that I subscribe to all kinds of feeds related to work and my favorite hobby. I arrange the feeds in folders so that I can easily read the work feeds while working and… you get the picture.
Top folder: WORK
Subfolders:
Top folder: HOBBY
Subfolders:
And now, for whatever reason, a blog that used to relate to work changes direction and starts writing about my favorite hobby and nothing else. Clearly, it has to be moved, right?
I see no reason why there should be a problem to MOVE it to HOBBY -> Blogs.
Sure, I can move the feeds one by one to a temporary folder, delete the folder I’m moving from (in this case both gets deleted) and then move all of the feeds once again. This is what I did. And it’s also why I created this bug report, because surely it should be possible to move sites between top folders into a subfolder of a different top folder.
In the live scenario that I encountered the problem, the “Blogs” folder was a top folder and I wanted to move the feeds to a subfolder, to get things organized. But it does not work and there’s no reason for it not to.
Again, it’s not a big issue, since most people probably don’t reorganize feeds that often. But when you do, it sucks that this doesn’t work (when you’re moving a lot of feeds)
I actually had the same problem - my solution was to suffix the subfolder based on their parent. So in your case, you would have:
Top folder: WORK
Subfolders:
etc. Based on a Twitter back and forth I had, this isn’t fixable on his end, so you can’t have duplicate subfolder names in Newsblur, period.