Problem Syncing: Unknown error occurred (3)

Everything was working fine. Went to breakfast and come back and it will not sync. My GMAIL passwords are screwed up. Just checked other account passwords and they are corrupt also. It was set to Home profile. Now it is set to None. I think that is the problem but it will not let me change it. Can not do a force download from server either.

Same thing is happening to me.

I will check that other thread and see if it fixes the problem.

Here's my most recent log entry:

[2008-11-10 13:02:30] ------ Foxmarks/2.5.3 (/Places) starting sync with sync.foxmarks.com ------
[2008-11-10 13:02:30] Using Baseline Cache.
[2008-11-10 13:02:30] >>> POST https://sync.foxmarks.com/sync/bookma...
[2008-11-10 13:02:30] >>> Body is: (disabled)
[2008-11-10 13:02:30] >>> Callback
[2008-11-10 13:02:30] OnTree error: Error: Places error calling function getTagsForURI() {
[native code]
} with args [{}, {}] Original error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8052000b (NS_ERROR_FILE_CORRUPTED) [nsINavBookmarksService.getBookmarkIdsForURI]" nsresult: "0x8052000b (NS_ERROR_FILE_CORRUPTED)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsTaggingService.js :: TS_getTagsForURI :: line 258" data: no]
[2008-11-10 13:02:30] Returned error: Unknown error occurred (3).(3)
[2008-11-10 13:02:30] Will retry at Mon Nov 10 2008 15:02:39 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

I am having the same problem. I am giving up using foxmarks now as it is recurring on a regular basis and I am constantly creating new profiles.

Since upgrading Firefox from version 2 to 3 I have not enjoyed the same stability of the browser. I noted that updates to version 3 have been addressing stability issues so assumed that this was something Mozilla were working on. How would you advise I proceed from here.

Eric, you were the one who suggested it may be a Firefox problem - as far as I am concerned the error is reported by Foxmarks and is therefore assumed to be a Foxmarks problem.

Eric. Thanks for your comment. I appreciate you can't help with a Firefox problem. I have already searched on their forum and note that there are lots of people having stability issues with the latest release. It would appear from what you say my only option, unfortunately, is to disable Foxmarks at the moment until the stability issue is resolved with Firefox.

Thanks a lot for your speedy response.

Eric. After chatting to you the other day I completely un-installed Firefox including profiles etc. and re-installed. I have had no problems at all with the stability of Firefox and Foxmarks has been working beautifully. Today I had my laptop lock up completely and now I have 'Problem Syncing: Unknown error occurred (3)' so now I have no choice but to disable it again.

I had a similar error "Unknown Error Occurred (3)". I looked in my log and saw there was a type mismatch error on a particular url (which was not important to me) and after deleting it, was able to get past the error. Now it says changes pending...

wow, in error situation delete files? reinstall? new profile? clean reinstal firefox? i can ́t believe, solved??????? is it a joke?

I had the same issue with the unknown error (3) and my issue was resolved by removing some (or all?) of the bookmarks that had the resource type set to "feed://". I'm syncing with Xmarks for Safari also, but the errors were from the Firefox Xmarks sync.

I run Xmarks on Windows and Linux. I do not seem to be having this issue on my Linux box, just my windows box.

I am pretty unhappy with XMarks now.

- I started using Foxmarks and it was great, then it then became Xmarks and worked for some time. It stopped working.

- I used Weave for a while and things were great with it too, but then it broke.

- Came back to Xmarks because I thought maybe the sync problem was gone. Nope...it clearly still exists.

- I have even created a new account as well to try and fix whatever sync issue is there. But for some reason now the program never fully syncs...even with a brand new profle; it just clocks as if actively syncing but it's not actually doing anything. It just shows ready/ready and a blue status bar scrolls continuously from left to right.

What is going on with this Xmarks project?

ric & Lars,

It has been my experience that Eric never admits XMarks has a problem, always blames Firefox, and his only solution is to delete everything and perform a fresh install. And, yes, I am having the same problem with the same Unknown error number (3). How can it be number (3) if it is unknown???

jonaxel, that is my situation too.. Ubuntu is fine, XP is not

from France,
all was allright until I install firefox 3.5.3.
since this installation, I've the problem
"Problem Syncing: Unknown error occurred (3)

We just encountered an unknown error (number is 3). Please visit our help page."

Once again I bumped into this issue (the error #3) and AGAIN IT WAS RESOLVED WHEN I DELETED YET ANOTHER BOOKMARK STARTING "feed://". I found this line from the log:

Exception in AcceptNodes: Error: Type mismatch for ...

How the hell is this issue solved? Type mismatch is not something you should see when everything is claimed to be working fine! This is really frustrating.

I think I'll switch to weave.

I have the same problems with Xmarks, I have no links with "feed://" in my list, as this is a continuing pain in the @rse I will look for something else, sorry Xmarks but you just don't cut it for me, great idea but way too flaky for daily use.

pw

Xmarks needs to think again and mark this problem unsolved. A new profile didn't work. It's working fine with Safari. There's a problem with Firefox and Xmarks, which experts need to investigate and solve.

i have this issue as well, it pops up all the time, i can resolve it without creating new profile, which, is not an acceptable solution to begin with. but it's such a pain in the butt. out of curiosity, is anyone here using weave as well? i wonder if this is causing an issue, possibly they try to sync at the same time or something? either way, at least once a week i run into some reason that xmarks won't sync and i need to delete all bookmarks and get a fresh sync from xmarks

This problem occurs with Bookmarks Duplicate Detector (http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/) installed. I don't want to merge my bookmarks on this computer with the servers (tried that and got 3 x all my bmarks). This time I attempted to Download (which is suppose to erase bookmarks off the computer and download server bmarks) but when it begins my BDD says "Would you like to add as a duplicate?" 2000 times. It is merging my bookmarks instead of downloading a fresh copy. I hit "No" on BDD so I don't have to spend an entire day deleting 4000 duplicate bmarks and that is when the error occurs. Because BDD prevents the continuation of the Merge (which is supposed to be a download!).