RSS Database Initialization Issue

In some extreme cases, RSS initialization may fail.

This situation is often related to the file system.

Please check the following:

1. Is the file encrypted, or is the folder or the entire hard drive encrypted? If it is encrypted by third-party software, the application may fail to initialize because it cannot access the database file.
2. Are the database files (rssStore.db / rssCache.db) being used by other programs? If a program is constantly occupying the database files, this may also cause access failures.

Intrinsic Reasons for Initialization Failure

RSS related data is stored in a single sqlite file. Your article collection will be stored in the rssStore.db database in the library directory, and the cache data of each service will be placed in the RssCache directory under the respective service directories in the rssCache.db database.

Upon the first launch of the application, if the database file for the corresponding service does not exist, the application will try to place an initial database in the corresponding directory.

This is a file copy operation. If the folder is inaccessible or unwritable for various reasons at this time, it will cause database initialization to fail.

If the first initialization is successful, the application will directly read this database file in subsequent uses.

If, for some reason, the database is modified by an external program or becomes corrupted, this will also cause the database initialization to fail.

How to Resolve?

If it is a file system issue, such as encryption, then try to decrypt the file or move the entire library directory to an unencrypted location, then reopen the library.

If it is an issue with the database itself, this is more troublesome.

1. Please first back up the rssStore.db and the RssCache directory.
2. After closing the application, delete the rssStore.db in the library directory as well as the rssCache.db file in the service directory that failed to initialize.
3. Restart the application.

After restarting, the application will reinitialize the entire RSS database structure.

This may result in the loss of original cache data, but you can use software like DB Browser that can parse Sqlite to open your backed-up database, retrieve the data, and properly save it.