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Bookmarks corrupted on Safari/Mac Leopard
I've recently installed Xmarks on my Mac for Safari and on my work PC for FF. The firefox side works fine, but on the Safari side my bookmarks keep becoming corrupted. None of the bookmarks disappear, but some bookmarks have their URLs changed to random URLs from sites I have recently visited. For instance, my "Ars Technica" bookmark now points to the Yahoo mail login page. These changes have also been synced to the server, so I have to revert to an earlier set to restore my bookmarks.
This is using Xmarks V 1.3.1 with Safari 4.0.3 (5531.9) on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8).
This is using Xmarks V 1.3.1 with Safari 4.0.3 (5531.9) on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.8).
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Inappropriate?Hi Neil: We've not seen this happen on the Safari side before - in fact on the Safari side the data model doesn't mix bookmarks and history at all. BUT this is the exact set of symptoms for a Firefox problem that we see reported from time to time.
This can happen there because the data model on FF uses the same store for bookmarks and history (that's the native FF store we're talking about) and it can become corrupted. This seems to be a generic FF bug, and is discussed at the Mozilla site along with some fixes (which we'll get to in a second).
I wonder if you are hitting this problem on FF but attributing it to the Safari side of the sync? Let's work with this assumption initially and see if we can fix it that way.
The good general page that discusses this problem is http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_h...
There are many possible symptoms of corruption in the underlying bookmark/history/other stuff data, but the one you are describing is one we've seen before.
The simplest possible solution is to remove the corrupt files, and let FF rebuild them (you could try the export/import approach too - take a look at the options). This is described in the section "Damaged Places database"
If you choose to remove the places.sqlite and JSON bookmark backup files (a complete redo essentially), then you can recover all your bookmarks by doing a download from Xmarks.
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