How To Recover Lost Mail RSS Feeds In Mountain Lion

One of the biggest complaints so far about Apple’s latest release of OS X is that in Safari, and especially Mail, all your previously saved RSS feeds are gone. This was a relatively popular feature, and many were left disappointed to find everything had disappeared, but fear not, as with this Terminal command you should have them back in no time (via MacGeneration).

1. Type this into Terminal:

cd ~/Library/Mail/V2/RSS/

2. Now paste this command:

find . -name "Info.plist" -exec grep -A 1 Feed {} \; | grep string | sed 's/^[^>]*>//' | sed 's/<[^>]*>$//'

3. You should now see all your RSS feeds listed in the Terminal window. Download a third party RSS client like Reeder (link) and copy/paste them into it, and you should have everything recovered and working.

Alternatively, you can also copy and paste them into Google Reader or any other RSS service, but do transfer them otherwise you can’t make use of them without constantly bringing up the Terminal.

Henry Taylor-Gill

Henry is a student who is a huge Apple fan, and has used their products since day one. He can remember how happy he was when he received the first iPod back in 2001 as a birthday present. He has an international background, having spent most of his life in France but he now lives in the UK. He is also a native French speaker and can also speak Spanish at a decent level. In addition to tech, Henry is an avid sports fan and has his own sports blog.