How To: Notes:
Lifetime of an Entry
When generating content for the feed older entries remain in the feed until
enough new content is collected to push the old content beyond the maximum
length of the feed. This old content is retained even if the source of the
content is deleted. If you choose to turn off Retain Entries (under Advanced/Summarize)
all entries within the feed are checked against their original sources and
if the source is missing/deleted the entry associated with that source is also
deleted.
For summaries of single pages the entries are compared with the content on
the page itself. When the content is removed from the source page it will be
removed from the feed when it is processed next.
For summaries of directories or sites, the link is what is looked at. If the
link points to a file within the website and that file is missing/deleted the
entry will be removed from the feed.
Caution: This setting must be used with care because it is the only setting
that will automatically remove content from your feed.
Retained content is useful for pages that are like blogs, where the content
that was on the page yesterday is still important today, but is simply not
on the page because there is no room for it. Also, for sets of files that may
not be available at the time of processing (especially when processing at a
later date) retaining the content means avoiding accidental deletion of feed
entries. You'll be better off using a reasonable Max Length for the feed and
let time and content do the maintenance work. You can always get an entry back
by going to the Content tab and importing the source page. Also, if you ever
want to delete an entry from your feed you can simply go to the Content tab,
select the entry to delete and press the delete/minus button at the top of
the Entries list.
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