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Adding Sync of IE8 on Win7 causes sync problems for Firefox on XP and Mac
I am unable to sync my bookmarks either automatically or manually on Firefox on XP and on my Mac. I think this started once I installed the Xmarks plugin for IE 8 on Windows 7. I never noticed before, but now I have an untitled top level folder (the same level as "Bookmarks Toolbar"). I am unable to give it a name, but I believe that it is the root of my bookmarks menu.
The problems started after syncing my Win7/IE8 installation. The first indication of a problem was a comment about a duplicate URL "" being added (that is probably because of the "Bookmark Duplicate Deleter" plugin for FIrefox. Subsequently, I am getting dialogs from Xmarks saying conflicts in bookmark folders. One example is "Bookmarks Toolbar" vs. Links. The latter comes from IE8, I assume, but I don't know why there is an error in matching the folders.
The problems started after syncing my Win7/IE8 installation. The first indication of a problem was a comment about a duplicate URL "" being added (that is probably because of the "Bookmark Duplicate Deleter" plugin for FIrefox. Subsequently, I am getting dialogs from Xmarks saying conflicts in bookmark folders. One example is "Bookmarks Toolbar" vs. Links. The latter comes from IE8, I assume, but I don't know why there is an error in matching the folders.
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Inappropriate?Do you get an error message when you attempt to sync in Xmarks for IE, or does the sync succeed but it causes problems (duplications and stuff)?
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Inappropriate?Hi Colin... it appears to have succeeded on IE. I turned it off, though. I was able to revert back to an earlier sync history so that I could resync my Firefox installations. I'm afraid to use the IE plugin again. Apparently something that it sync'd caused a problem with FF. I had just installed Win7, however, so the only bookmarks were the preinstalled ones.
I noticed, a blank top-level bookmark branch in Firefox. I just now checked and it is back to being called "Bookmark Menu".
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