# Possible to move full article state between services?

**URL:** <https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/possible-to-move-full-article-state-between-services/331>\
**Category:** Syncing\
**Created:** [July 3, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/possible-to-move-full-article-state-between-services/331 "2026-07-03T20:26:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![bax](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/user_avatar/discourse.netnewswire.com/bax/32/163_2.png) [@bax](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/u/bax)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/possible-to-move-full-article-state-between-services/331/1 "2026-07-03T20:26:18Z")

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I have been granted a new work laptop which is unfortunately far more restricted than in the past, so iCloud Drive is fully disabled and it does not seem like NNW supports a separate iCloud login flow (like app-passwords).

I know I can port my feeds via OPML, but is there a way to move things like Starr’d articles When I moved from Unread and Reeder back home to NNW when it came back on the scene, it was unfortunate to lose all my stars. So just wondering if there’s a way to maintain that if I were to move over to something like FreshRSS.

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**Author:** ![brent](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/user_avatar/discourse.netnewswire.com/brent/32/7_2.png) [@brent](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/u/brent)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 3:25am UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/possible-to-move-full-article-state-between-services/331/2 "2026-07-04T03:25:18Z")

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There isn’t a way that I know of to move article states between services. (Well, you could probably do it with some custom software, yes.)

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**Author:** ![bax](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/user_avatar/discourse.netnewswire.com/bax/32/163_2.png) [@bax](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/u/bax)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/possible-to-move-full-article-state-between-services/331/3 "2026-07-04T13:03:00Z")

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Yeah I’ve never seen an export in any reader that saved stars, just didn’t know if I would be able to reassign the account for a feed and it just carry things through.

Would be great for portability if there was a solution, or if you could either merge/dedupe feeds across accounts or some kind of archive state so you can remove or unsubscribe without nuking favorites.

I guess maybe I’ll try to script out to a read later some how, but at that point I almost wish Star was just a replacement for that all along.

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**Author:** ![wklj](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/user_avatar/discourse.netnewswire.com/wklj/32/134_2.png) [@wklj](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/u/wklj)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.netnewswire.com/t/possible-to-move-full-article-state-between-services/331/4 "2026-09-24T19:44:17Z")

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Yeah, I’d love to see this. I’ve been using Feedbin for many years, and would like to move to iCloud for syncing. But while I can move the feeds, I can’t move my starred items or my read/unread state, which ends up being too much of a hurdle. This would be a really nice thing for a client to be able to handle!