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New bookmarks disappearing when using multiple computers.
I have Foxmarks loaded on five different computers in my home that I use regularly throughout any given day.
Often, a bookmark that I recently added will disappear. I suspect that this is due to the timing of my synchronization.
For example, I may add a bookmark to the browser at my main computer before going out to the living room to watch a video on the computer hooked up to my TV. Next time I look at my bookmarks, the bookmark I just added is missing.
My guess is that my living room computer (without the new bookmark) syncs its Foxmarks after the bookmark was created on the main computer, but before Foxmarks on my main computer sync. Since the living room sync is newer than the bookmark, the system is assuming that the bookmark has been deleted. ... Of course this is just a guess and I don't know enough about the inner workings of the system to confirm this.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
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-- Ghodmode
Often, a bookmark that I recently added will disappear. I suspect that this is due to the timing of my synchronization.
For example, I may add a bookmark to the browser at my main computer before going out to the living room to watch a video on the computer hooked up to my TV. Next time I look at my bookmarks, the bookmark I just added is missing.
My guess is that my living room computer (without the new bookmark) syncs its Foxmarks after the bookmark was created on the main computer, but before Foxmarks on my main computer sync. Since the living room sync is newer than the bookmark, the system is assuming that the bookmark has been deleted. ... Of course this is just a guess and I don't know enough about the inner workings of the system to confirm this.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
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-- Ghodmode
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Inappropriate?Foxmarks doesn't use timestamps in its synchronization algorithm, so the situation you describe shouldn't be a problem. Generally when I've seen the behavior you're seeing, it's due to one computer in the sync mix having a problem with its Firefox bookmark store.
Sometimes when the bookmark store in Firefox gets corrupted (usually during a Firefox crash), a restart of Firefox will cause it to load a backup copy of the bookmark collection. When Foxmarks encounters this old version of the bookmarks, it assumes that bookmarks created in the interim have been deleted, so synchronizes a delete to the server, which then goes to all other computers.
The best fix is to create a new Firefox profile for the offending computer:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/B...
Finding which computer has the problem can be a little more complicated, but if you test by adding a bookmark to each computer, synchronizing, then restarting Firefox and checking whether the bookmark is still there, that might get it for you.
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