Reality is Flock has had some upgrading problems if you have been a long time Flock user, you may
find some instability in 1.0 if you have upgraded multiple times. There is a way to trash your profile without losing everything (saved passwords, cookies, …) WARNING you will still lose some of your profile data and potentially extensions and search-plugins.
1) Open Feeds -> Feed Options -> Export Feeds
Remember where you saved this. “flock-export.opml” is the name I will refer to it as later.
2) If you have been using firefox (as you probably have if flock has been crashing on you)
in these examples “USERNAME” needs to be replaced with your username on the system.
2.1) quit firefox
2.2) Rename your firefox profile directory
2.2a)
Windows
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
Rename Firefox to Firefox-lkg
2.2b) Macintosh
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Firefox
Rename Firefox to Firefox-lkg
2.2c) Linux
~/.mozilla/firefox
Rename firefox to firefox-lkg
3) quit both flock keep this blog post in a text editor or something
4) move your flock profile aside
4a)
Windows
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Flock\Browser
Rename Browser to Browser-old
4b) Macintosh
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Flock
Rename Flock to Flock-old
4c) Linux
~/.flock/browser
rename browser to browser-old
5) Copy your old flock profile to the location for a Firefox profile
5a)
Windows
copy C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Flock\Browser-old to C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
5b) Macintosh
copy /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Flock-old to /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Firefox
5c) Linux
cp -rp ~/.flock/browser-old ~/.mozilla/firefox
6) Start Flock
6.1) tell Flock to import information from Firefox
7) Fix your feeds.
7.1) open feeds
7.2) delete all feeds
7.3 in feeds -> feed options -> import feeds
now select the file you saved earlier! flock-export.opml
7.4 WAIT, at least 10 minutes. If you have lots of feeds it will take a while for them all to load.
8) Quit flock gracefully
9) Start Flock again and you should be ready to go with a new more stable, faster peppier flock.
10) Restore your Firefox profile
10a) Windows
1) delete C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox
2) rename C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox-lkg
to Firefox
10b) Macintosh
1) delete /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Firefox
2) rename /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Firefox-lkg
to Firefox
10c) Linux
1) rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox
2) mv -i ~/.mozilla/firefox-lkg ~/.mozilla/firefox
This should clear out any corrupt rdf files, or clucene indexes, remove any outdated files. It will also wipe out any extensions you have installed so be warned! But my experience is it give a far less buggy flock experience.
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Tags: flock, repair