HELP! Continue to have sync problems with XMarks

Same problem. Everything worked until i was upgraded (and i don't recall getting an option re: upgrade.

has anyone received a solution? I am going nuts with this syncing error stuff.and it's happening on all my macs and browesers , so it cant be me

The users in my office are all suffering.....I think that that xmarks has tried to get too clever too quick. I think they should concentrate on sorting out all the niggles, instead of concentrating on newer ideas.....where have I heard that before?

I have no problems with it.

My first guess is that some weird firewall/antivirus/security setting is blocking it. It's also possible another addon doesn't like it (try disabling each of them one-by-one and see if it still crashes).

If you just want to downgrade: If you go to the Xmarks page on Firefox, there'll be an option there to download an older version. Then if you edit one of the addon files, you can trick it into thinking it's the latest version. (I seen it somewhere on here -- may have to search a bit.)

That's Aimee for you, the eternal troubleshooter.

Well I found a solution that worked for me. There was a suggestion in one of the links for Foxmarks to send in the log, of course since the upgrade it is now called xmarks.log. After I looked at the log it seemed to me that the synch problem was happening everytime it looked for my Firefox installation which was not on my primary partition C:. Saved all my settings, removed Firefox and reloaded to my C: drive.. Installed xmarks and I now have no problems with synching.

Hi there:

Syncing Error after upgrading from foxmarks to xmarks... Most of us keep having "Problem Syncing" error (see attached screenshot)



Foxmarks is still working on some other PCS though - we're just having problems with Xmarks. This is such a great extension and we would love to continue using it.

Please Help!

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here are couple of lines from the xmarks.log

[2009-04-30 10:42:01] Returned error: Synchronization error(4)
[2009-04-30 10:42:01] Will retry at Thu Apr 30 2009 11:12:01 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
[2009-04-30 11:12:44] ------ Xmarks/3.0.2 (/Places) starting sync with sync.xmarks.com ------
[2009-04-30 11:12:44] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-04-30 11:12:44] >>> POST http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks...
[2009-04-30 11:12:44] >>> Body is: {"baserev":611,"retry":2,"log":{"mid":"flkyn4jn","serp":0,"ssEnabled":false}}
[2009-04-30 11:12:44] Sync Error: '[JavaScript Error: "this._storage is null" {file: "file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js" line: 464}]' when calling method: [nsILoginManager::findLogins](undefined: 562)
[2009-04-30 11:12:44] Returned error: Synchronization error(4)
[2009-04-30 11:12:44] Will retry at Thu Apr 30 2009 12:12:44 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
[2009-04-30 12:12:49] ------ Xmarks/3.0.2 (/Places) starting sync with sync.xmarks.com ------
[2009-04-30 12:12:49] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-04-30 12:12:49] >>> POST http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks...
[2009-04-30 12:12:49] >>> Body is: {"baserev":611,"retry":3,"log":{"mid":"flkyn4jn","serp":0,"ssEnabled":false}}
[2009-04-30 12:12:49] Sync Error: '[JavaScript Error: "this._storage is null" {file: "file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js" line: 464}]' when calling method: [nsILoginManager::findLogins](undefined: 562)
[2009-04-30 12:12:49] Returned error: Synchronization error(4)
[2009-04-30 12:12:49] Will retry at Thu Apr 30 2009 14:12:50 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
[2009-04-30 14:13:05] ------ Xmarks/3.0.2 (/Places) starting sync with sync.xmarks.com ------
[2009-04-30 14:13:05] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-04-30 14:13:05] >>> POST http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks...
[2009-04-30 14:13:05] >>> Body is: {"baserev":611,"retry":4,"log":{"mid":"flkyn4jn","serp":0,"ssEnabled":false}}
[2009-04-30 14:13:05] Sync Error: '[JavaScript Error: "this._storage is null" {file: "file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js" line: 464}]' when calling method: [nsILoginManager::findLogins](undefined: 562)
[2009-04-30 14:13:05] Returned error: Synchronization error(4)
[2009-04-30 14:13:05] Will retry at Thu Apr 30 2009 18:13:09 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
[2009-04-30 15:42:58] ------ Xmarks/3.0.2 (/Places) starting getSimilarSites with undefined ------
[2009-04-30 15:42:58] >>> POST http://api.xmarks.com/internal/relate...
[2009-04-30 15:42:58] >>> Body is: {"urls":["http://getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks/topics/help_continue_to_have_sync_problems_with_xmarks?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_foxmarks"],"mid":"flkyn4jn","cid":"xmfx"}
[2009-04-30 15:42:59] >>> Callback ({status:0, rating:{status:0}, topics:{status:0, ids:{42685292:{user_count:2769, description:"", title:"Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service", url:"http://www.getsatisfaction.com/", topics:[["customer service", 90], ["consumer info", 55], ["support", 61], ["web 2.0", 56], ["social", 43], ["web2.0", 35], ["services", 42], ["commerce", 40], ["social networking", 27], ["help", 19]], popularity:42.304674893, attrs:{}, add_velocity:149, url_id:42685292, revision:1000}}}, related:{status:0, urls:{'http://getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks/topics/help_continue_to_have_sync_problems_with_xmarks?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_foxmarks':{user_count:2769, description:"", title:"Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service", url:"http://www.getsatisfaction.com/", related_urls:[{user_count:864, description:"", title:"UserVoice - Customer Feedback 2.0 - Harness the ideas of your customers. Build great products. Turn customers into champions.", url:"http://www.uservoice.com/", popularity:33.0555975637, score:17.5300841047, attrs:{download_status:404, download_timestamp:1234331299.91, download_attempts:1}, add_velocity:60, url_id:137364505, revision:1001}, {user_count:148, description:"A customer feedback management solution powered by SuggestionBox provides companies, non-profits, groups & clubs with a simple way to collect customer feedback. Our community collaboration platform is powered by you.", title:"SuggestionBox.com", url:"http://www.suggestionbox.com/", popularity:19.8952850659, score:11.6423643397, attrs:{}, add_velocity:7, url_id:98514157, revision:1001}, {user_count:1753, description:"Discover the hidden communities behind the places that you visit. Brightkite lets you make the connection and start a conversation.", title:"brightkite.com", url:"http://www.brightkite.com/", popularity:36.2016905598, score:8.11575808246, attrs:{}, add_velocity:74, url_id:33544342, revision:1000}, {user_count:9074, description:"hosted community site software? or something....", title:"Ning. Create your own social network for anything.", url:"http://www.ning.com/", popularity:51.7261012403, score:7.54529411657, attrs:{}, add_velocity:277, url_id:9672176, revision:1000}, {user_count:1319, description:"Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web.", title:"DISQUS | Turn Blog Comments into a Webwide Discussion with a Powerful Comment System", url:"http://www.disqus.com/", popularity:33.9509939586, score:7.17214584954, attrs:{}, add_velocity:58, url_id:72399293, revision:1000}, {user_count:10616, description:"Support Information for Consumer Electronics & Appliances , Repair Services, Manuals, Guides, FAQs & Troubleshooting", title:"Tech Support, Manuals & Troubleshooting for Consumers", url:"http://www.fixya.com/", popularity:50.2252573474, score:7.0762522698, attrs:{}, add_velocity:212, url_id:6332585, revision:1000}, {user_count:344451, description:"Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.", title:"Welcome to Facebook! | Facebook", url:"http://www.facebook.com/", popularity:100, score:6.94998358705, attrs:{}, add_velocity:11983, url_id:6152788, revision:1000}, {user_count:7551, description:"Search Twitter in realtime - see what the world is doing right now.", title:"Twitter Search", url:"http://search.twitter.com/", popularity:63.3770549683, score:6.84695318024, attrs:{}, add_velocity:961, url_id:138946020, revision:1000}, {user_count:58779, description:"LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.", title:"LinkedIn: Relationships Matter", url:"http://www.linkedin.com/", popularity:80.4300051943, score:6.54062269945, attrs:{}, add_velocity:1534, url_id:8502438, revision:1000}, {user_count:16601, description:"Our goal is to convince enterprises that providing high quality customer service and having satisfied customers costs much less than providing low quality customer service and having unsatisfied customers.", title:"gethuman database from Paul English", url:"http://www.gethuman.com/", popularity:51.406891645, score:6.47682166915, attrs:{}, add_velocity:187, url_id:6834970, revision:1001}], popularity:42.304674893, attrs:{}, excluded_urls:{porn:0, dead:0, foreign:2}, add_velocity:149, fallback:true, url_id:42685292, revision:1000}}}})
[2009-04-30 15:47:34] ------ Xmarks/3.0.1 (/Places) starting sync with sync.xmarks.com ------
[2009-04-30 15:47:34] >>> POST http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks...
[2009-04-30 15:47:34] >>> Body is: {"baserev":611,"log":{"mid":"flkyn4jn","serp":0,"ssEnabled":false}}
[2009-04-30 15:47:34] Sync Error: '[JavaScript Error: "this._storage is null" {file: "file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js" line: 464}]' when calling method: [nsILoginManager::findLogins](undefined: 479)
[2009-04-30 15:47:34] Returned error: Synchronization error(4)
[2009-04-30 15:47:34] Will retry at Thu Apr 30 2009 16:02:36 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
[2009-04-30 15:51:33] ------ Xmarks/3.0.1 (/Places) starting sync with sync.xmarks.com ------
[2009-04-30 15:51:33] >>> POST http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks...
[2009-04-30 15:51:33] >>> Body is: {"baserev":611,"log":{"mid":"flkyn4jn","serp":0,"ssEnabled":false}}
[2009-04-30 15:51:33] Sync Error: '[JavaScript Error: "this._storage is null" {file: "file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsLoginManager.js" line: 464}]' when calling method: [nsILoginManager::findLogins](undefined: 479)
[2009-04-30 15:51:33] Returned error: Synchronization error(4)
[2009-04-30 15:51:33] Will retry at Thu Apr 30 2009 16:06:42 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Xmarks is a disaster.
I have spent more time trying to retrieve bookmarks, deleting endless duplicates - following technical instructions to create identities - and everytime I open Firefox it keeps telling me to select between local version and server versions of ALL my bookmarks - or it tells me there is a duplicate and only gives me the option to continue and have a duplicate (what is the logic in that?!) or cancel, in which case you are back to the start again and it continues all over again.
Foxmarks never, NEVER, required any attention.
Xmarks is a complete and utter disaster.

I'm with you guys, inexplicable syncing problem. May be associated with IE, and/or confusion with login user name (I seem to have 2 logins)

I uninstalled and re-installed firefox.. and it's now working

I also have been having terrible problems with Xmarks that I never had with Foxmarks. I run Xmarks on several computers at home and work. Ubuntu (8.04, 8.10, and 9.04), Windows Vista, and Mac OS X Leopard. I sync Firefox, Safari, and IE8 bookmarks. All of this was working well (other than Vista sorting all my bookmarks into alphabetical order and fouling up the Unicode ones) until recently. Now I almost can't get any of them to sync and when I do they take forever and suck up 100% CPU. It's as if the remote server is terribly busy, or the sync is corrupted or something, but it never gives an error it just freezes. Sometimes if I wait long enough (20-30 *minutes*) it might complete, other times my only option is to kill it.

I'm honestly thinking of abandoning Xmarks and looking for another solution.

Eric, this is me responding to 2 of your comments (and a question): 1. I tried your upload trick, & still have a sync error. 2. Only have 612 bookmarks. 3 Where is the Xmarks Log? I have Win XP, & suppose it's in my profile, & I know how to explore it.

Eric, here's a small portion of the log. I note it doesn't have any errors, all say success! But my XMarks tray icon shows an error?
[2009-05-20 11:54:58] >>> POST https://sync.xmarks.com/sync/password...
[2009-05-20 11:54:58] >>> Body is: {"baserev":3,"manual":true,"log":{"mid":"fk1eln3m","serp":3,"ssEnabled":true}}
[2009-05-20 11:54:58] >>> Callback ({username:"walkerpbus", endrev:3, commands:[], toprev:3, continuous:true, baserev:3, status:0})
[2009-05-20 11:54:58] lcs = 0 scs = 0
[2009-05-20 11:54:58] Success: Synchronization completed.
[2009-05-20 12:55:48] ------ Xmarks/3.1.1 (/Places) starting sync with sync.xmarks.com ------
[2009-05-20 12:55:48] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-05-20 12:55:48] >>> POST https://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmark...
[2009-05-20 12:55:48] >>> Body is: {"baserev":377,"log":{"mid":"fk1eln3m","serp":3,"ssEnabled":true}}
[2009-05-20 12:55:49] >>> Callback ({username:"walkerpbus", endrev:377, commands:[], toprev:377, continuous:true, baserev:377, status:0})
[2009-05-20 12:55:51] lcs = 0 scs = 0
[2009-05-20 12:55:51] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-05-20 12:55:51] >>> POST https://sync.xmarks.com/sync/password...
[2009-05-20 12:55:51] >>> Body is: {"baserev":3,"log":{"mid":"fk1eln3m","serp":3,"ssEnabled":true}}
[2009-05-20 12:55:51] >>> Callback ({username:"walkerpbus", endrev:3, commands:[], toprev:3, continuous:true, baserev:3, status:0})
[2009-05-20 12:55:51] lcs = 0 scs = 0
[2009-05-20 12:55:51] Success: Synchronization completed.
[2009-05-20 13:32:02] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-05-20 13:37:11] >>> POST https://api.xmarks.com/internal/serve...
[2009-05-20 13:37:11] >>> Body is: {"mid":"fk1eln3m","cid":"xmfx"}
[2009-05-20 13:37:15] >>> Callback ({status:0, version:0})
[2009-05-20 13:45:55] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-05-20 13:56:16] ------ Xmarks/3.1.1 (/Places) starting sync with sync.xmarks.com ------
[2009-05-20 13:56:16] >>> POST https://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmark...
[2009-05-20 13:56:16] >>> Body is: {"baserev":377,"log":{"mid":"fk1eln3m","serp":3,"ssEnabled":true}}
[2009-05-20 13:56:16] >>> Authenticating...
[2009-05-20 13:56:16] >>> POST https://login.xmarks.com/login/signtoken
[2009-05-20 13:56:17] >>> Callback ({status:0})
[2009-05-20 13:56:17] >>> POST https://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmark...
[2009-05-20 13:56:17] >>> Body is: {"baserev":377,"log":{"mid":"fk1eln3m","serp":3,"ssEnabled":true}}
[2009-05-20 13:56:17] >>> Callback ({username:"walkerpbus", endrev:377, commands:[], toprev:377, continuous:true, baserev:377, status:0})
[2009-05-20 13:56:19] lcs = 0 scs = 0
[2009-05-20 13:56:19] Using Baseline Cache.
[2009-05-20 13:56:19] >>> POST https://sync.xmarks.com/sync/password...
[2009-05-20 13:56:19] >>> Body is: {"baserev":3,"log":{"mid":"fk1eln3m","serp":3,"ssEnabled":true}}
[2009-05-20 13:56:19] >>> Callback ({username:"walkerpbus", endrev:3, commands:[], toprev:3, continuous:true, baserev:3, status:0})
[2009-05-20 13:56:19] lcs = 0 scs = 0
[2009-05-20 13:56:19] Success: Synchronization completed.
[2009-05-20 13:57:44] Using Baseline Cache.
?

Here's a stab at complying, part of the log.
Sure wish I could attach this (take up less space here, & also wish I could change colors here to mark my comments), hope it's enough! ????

Wed May 20 10:44:27 2009: FoxmarksException during sync [1528] attempt: FoxmarksException [1001]: Error while opening CreateFile [\\?\C:\Documents and Settings\walker\Favorites\$Search \AOL NetFind.url]: 32
Wed May 20 10:44:27 2009: Attaching observers
Wed May 20 10:49:27 2009: Recieved WM_COMMAND message: 1537

Here's another portion:
Wed May 20 11:55:44 2009: New SyncRequest Initialized [POST]: http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks... (cleaned body: {"log":{"mid":"ki2421"},"manual":true,"retry":7}
)
Wed May 20 11:55:48 2009: Cleaned SyncRequest response from server: {
"commands" : [
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"modified" : 1239656353,
"name" : "",
"ntype" : "folder",
"tnid" : "Oe0G02",
"unid" : "fthbbiqc-2"
},
"nid" : "ROOT"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"name" : "Software",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "v2GpW2"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1138821434,
"modified" : 1242317914,
"name" : "$Search",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "Ue0G02"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1239733973,
"modified" : 1240346174,
"name" : "Bookstores",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "fbm:n#1239732287139"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1239732362,
"modified" : 1240346174,
"name" : "Home Locations",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "fbm:n#1239732287138"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1138821434,
"modified" : 1240346174,
"name" : "Banking and Finance",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "Ve0G02"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1138821434,
"modified" : 1240346238,
"name" : "Bible & Christian",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "We0G02"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1200431506,
"modified" : 1240346174,
"name" : "Briefcase",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "k2zIy2"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"modified" : 1240346174,
"name" : "Compuserve_VA",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "cbGpW2"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1138821434,
"modified" : 1240346175,
"name" : "Computers and Technology",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "Ye0G02"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"modified" : 1240346175,
"name" : "Dallas IT",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "clV.b2"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"modified" : 1240346175,
"name" : "Dell",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "Xh2YH2"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1138821434,
"modified" : 1240346175,
"name" : "Education",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "Ze0G02"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1160416585,
"modified" : 1240346175,
"name" : "Family",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "pfX5x1"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1138821434,
"modified" : 1240346175,
"name" : "Firefox and Mozilla Links",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "Se0G02"
},
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"created" : 1138821434,
"modified" : 1240346176,
"name" : "Firefox Crew Picks",
"ntype" : "folder",
"pnid" : "ROOT"
},
"nid" : "Re0G02"
},

And another:
{
"action" : "insert",
"args" : {
"icon" : "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAACqUlEQVQ4jXWSXWhURxTHfzFFIiJSI4IoxY+HKjFm71wRQR9EKX2oRFpYVMxu1713LirUBxHzJN69M+qbgj7Y0gql4kvehFIVlKBgks3M1s+ZhRaVNiioCMVq44NxfdgkpkYPHBiG+f/O+Z85MB59eVpdljtwO+1cAVAtsNRKem3MzzXJGRuzp1qknQ9FA1pcFp52FbEToCYpmYT/bMI9K6lbycNawphJ+NtEBNMAdZ371inRNy7+2kruD5XZYHcwfyhmsU2YW4v5xkieWck/A0UWTYpd2jHTa/HkZtq1NoUZVjJ4Mc88I6nahFdWMmoTxoYle2+UWGIlL2zCuUmAz4JiXYUjQEtV8qWJ2WoTbgzFhAN5ZvWXaDMxG41k1Ep6rWS3kTy/VGB2s30lznstLgOYMt3DktJAkcDEXLAJD2zCHVui00SsN5LnpswymzA2WGBl04IWfzotfpuYfHUXW0zCCROxaiBinokIbMJtm7DcSq7UYtZZySNT5vMmQIUjXoW/T3zlcMRmE7Fq6pCNpNvEHDaSU7bMBiMZ6S/R5iu5L3Ba1L0KR2+lqxcAVIu092/kk6mA6wUWGMlxk/BDLWaTlfzULB6cxGnR53XYqKvguw8uCVAts6YWs8tK9tuYH6/1sLB+dEW71+JXnM7t9DpsOC0e2d5lc98X9+VprcX0mIjt1Yj8hHenxPd3M3GQB+mSNq/E03HI1f70/+03oAXgfDdzGD/fqXRtc0r8+9exzk+bu1AJCl6HjWaKP1za8dnH7LgsqHgdvvZZuHfyMk2ZcVeLE1Mgr5wSQy4L9vkjua9c1tXjlfjFK/HQa/HGKXG2kad1mleXBbudEi/fgabla6dyh13aMfNjHXIrXb3Yq/BQXYlhr8WTuhKPvRaDTgVHXdbV8f77t0QtTxFTwzzRAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC",
"modified" : 1240346174,
"name" : "BibleGateway.com A searchable online Bible in over 100 versions and 50 (...)",
"ntype" : "bookmark",
"pnid" : "We0G02",
"url" : "http://www.biblegateway.com/",
"visited" : 1240346265
},

----and what appears to be the end, and the beginning of another:

"rev" : 377,
"status" : 0,
"toprev" : 377,
"username" : "walkerpbus"
}

Wed May 20 11:55:48 2009: Processing download
Wed May 20 11:55:48 2009: Creating CommandSet from JSON value.

---Is that enough?

how can I change this
http://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmarks...
by
https://sync.xmarks.com/sync/bookmark...

I think this is the problem.
please notify me

To metallan, everytime I click on your link, I get a JSON parsing error?

Same symptom in 2 computers, metallan!

I think Xmarks for IE and that for firefox craches each other.

Or Xmarks for IE make trouble itself.

In my case, after uninstalling Xmarks for IE, I unjailed from this sinc error problem.

to metallan---it mysteriously solved itself. Thanks XMarks maintainers (who I believe have been updating it)?! I cannot say that any of you had any source in it

Yes, same problem. I started with Foxmarks and was SUPER impressed with it. So, I synced 3 machines (Mac OSX, Win Vista & Ubuntu) seemlessly. I have about 300 bookmarks. Now, I was recently re-orging my folder structure, so I went to see my what I did on the MAc show up on the Vista machine... and, it's not syncing, after ~ 30 min of restarting Firefox, hitting 'sync' over & over, etc-- even though the My Xmarks webpage shows the correct folder structure. Soo... what's the solution? An Xmarks upgrade?

To all---it was mysteriously solved on 1 computer, the one that has most frequently had it, apparently by automatic updates to the module---I can think of no other reason!

I have had the same issue on both my work and home PC's (XP & Vista respectively) in both IE and FireFox since August. It just fails to sync so is pretty much useless to me.

I ended up having to organize the bookmarks I had on the Windows machines running IE, sync them, then force-download to all the Firefox installs especially those on Linux to overwrite the local bookmarks. I definitely lost bookmarks doing this, but it was the only way to make it work again.

Xmarks clearly does not like cross-browser bookmarking even if it looks like it does. It tolerates it, mostly, but sometimes it messes up, and it seems like the one most likely to get corrupted is Firefox. Which is a problem for me since Linux with Firefox is my primary desktop.

There have been a couple updates since I fixed this and I haven't had it die again yet. Hopefully that means newer versions solved the inter-browser problem?

Firefox 3.5.5 is crashing while attempting to sync on LinuxMint 8 after adding xmarks and syncing on Google Chrome beta for linux. Never had an issue with xmarks before. It must be a cross-browser issue. I tried forcing a download of bookmarks from the server - crashed as before. I tried forcing an upload of local bookmarks - this seems to have fixed the problem. DON'T USE OTHER BROWSERS WITH XMARKS IF YOU ARE USING FIREFOX UNTIL THIS ISSUE IS FIXED.

I've been having an issue with xmarks creating duplicate bookmarks and folders. I've been fighting it for months now. The only thing that prevents me from bolting to Ubuntu One (their cloud) is the restore function, but it's getting old to have to restore from 12 hours ago.

I run firefox only. What I found this morning when looking at the restore files on the server is that the offending save file had appeared at a time when I wasn't even on the computer. So either the bloated file appears to have created itself on the server, or from my laptop (it was connected to the internet).

In either case, this is getting very old. Xmarks really needs to fix this.

PS, this happens to me about one every day or two.

It happened again. For no reason that I had anything to do with, my firefox bookmarks once again just ballooned with duplicates, and there was a new saved file on the server that I did not create. It's as if the client and server decided to initiate a save but screwed it up.