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How to save articles for offline viewing

You may wish to browse article summaries (the headlines and descriptions that appear in the News pane) offline if, for example, you are using a dialup connection and are not currently online, or you are without an Internet connection for any other reason.

When online, RSSOwl reloads news summaries and retains them in memory each time you select a newsfeed.

When you go offline, newsfeeds you opened are saved to disk, allowing you to review the news summaries for those articles.

Note: The offline archive may be turned off in workbench preferences ("Automatically save newsfeeds for offline reading").
Note: When being offline you should activate the "Offline Mode" ("File" | "Work Offline").

Saving and reopening newsfeeds from files

You can also store selected newsfeed summaries to file for offline viewing.

To save selected newsfeeds:

• Press Ctrl+S or choose "Save As" from the File menu. A dialog opens to let you save the currently selected newsfeed from the Newsheader pane. The feed is saved as an XML file to your local drive or to a network location.

To reopen a saved newsfeed:

• Choose Open from the File menu. This calls an Open dialog to let you locate and load a saved XML file containing a newsfeed. If the selected file is not a valid newsfeed file, an error message is displayed.
• Another method is to add a saved newsfeed file by adding it to your Favorites. To do that, choose a category or newsfeed item within a category (not within a subscription) and choose New>Favorite from the file menu to open the Add New Favorite dialog.