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Alec_Burgess asked a question in Xmarks on August 23, 2008 08:31:

Merge bookmarks from two computers (own server) howto?
Merge bookmarks from two computers (own server) howto?
Summary questions:
(1) How do I manage with my own server to upload bookmarks? - currently getting "Foxmarks: Error: Forbidden" (per Wiki-Help
(2) If I get that to work, is there any way to MERGE bookmarks from two computers currently having very similar bookmarks but each with some bookmarks not in the other, rather have to make one or the other my starting point?

Windows XP SP3 - Foxmarks 2.1.0.12 - Chandler Server 1.0.0 (aka Cosmo server-?)

=== longer description of situation ===
I have two computers Desktop and Laptop (both running Firefox 3.0.1 - portable)
Laptop installation was created several weeks ago by copying PortableApps/Firefox folder from Desktop to Laptop. About a week ago, I lost connectivity to Internet from Desktop but before this I had added a number of bookmarks on Desktop so it had some bookmarks that didn't exist on the Laptop version

For a week or so I used only the Laptop and during that time added bookmarks to it.

Now I've restored internet connectivity on Desktop and wish to resume using it as the primary system.

I installed Foxmarks on both machines and using OSAF-Como setup a server on the desktop which uses SSL.
Situation now: I can open https://localhost:8443/
I created an account on it and logged into https://localhost:8443/chandler/pim on Desktop
and using just created account logged into https://mydesktop:8443/chandler/pim on Laptop
GREAT :-)
Also logged in under default admin account (root) with default password on both Desktop and Laptop machines.

Now going through Foxmarks Settings - in Advanced I set
-- [x] use own server "https://mydesktop:8443/"
First attempt to do
-- Manual Overwite [Force overwrite of server bookmarks] [Upload] resulted in an error. checking [Help] indicated that the correct URL should probably be:
-- https://mydesktop:8443/datadir/foxmar...

Trying again ...
-- [Upload] gives Writing to Sync file then
-- Status: Forbidden (log says 403 error)
-- Foxmarks: Error: Forbidden - help indicates "cookies" or "firewall" problem - probably not relevant to my problem?

FWIW: on Foxmarks - [General] tab I've set it up to use the "root" admin account with the default password. I haven't run the [Setup Wizard] since instructions say (somewhere-?) not to use it with your own server. I also haven't set up "sync profiles" since that appears to be applicable only if not using own server (?)

End of log reads ...
[2008-08-23 04:15:14] Progress: ({status:403, msg:"Forbidden"})
[2008-08-23 04:15:14] Returned error: Forbidden(403)
[2008-08-23 04:15:14] Will retry at Sat Aug 23 2008 04:30:28 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Regards ... Alec
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Alec_Burgess started a conversation in RescueTime on May 22, 2008 13:24:

Passwords to RescueTime is in plain-text in user.config
Noticed that user.config in:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\RescueTime.com\RescueTime.exe_Url_iqitukdlg04szbe4dffie0b1txso3v3b\1.0.5.20 contains email_address and password in plain-text.

It doesn't bother me - I'm the sole user of this system but if computer is used by more than one operator this seems like a dubious practice.

Comments?
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Alec_Burgess shared an idea in RescueTime on May 22, 2008 10:55:

Allow users to download CSV aka spreadsheet and reupload to you
See my previous post "Need better way to delete erroneous tags and favorite tags"

Can you allow users to download a spreadsheet/csv file with three columns.
App/website (or however you are recording it at finest level of detail)
Tag (or tags)
Classification (only to make it easier for me to chose my own tags)

Note: if its simpler a separate record for each tag when an app is multiply tagged is fine.

Allow me to manipulate this off-line NOT to change App/website or classification but just to retag the apps using (say) Excel to drag tag's to multiple apps etc.

Probably a separate column where 1 means add and 2 means delete the tagging of an app

I have my apps tagged as:
AppA:tagA, tagB - AppB:tagC - appC-tagA

eg you send me:
appA tagA classA
appA tagB classA
appB tagC classA
appC tagA classB

I send back:
appA tagA classA X
appA tagK classA
appB tagC classA X
appC tagL classB

result after you update is:
AppA:tagB,tagK - AppB:<no> - appC-tagA,tagL

ie. don't touch app-tag combos I don't send back and make requested additions/deletions.

You mentioned in a separate post that XML could "somehow" be acquired by users. If that's a lot easier for you then I could probably generate a syntactically correct XML file to cover above but IMO using CSV would be a lot easier for most

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Alec_Burgess reported a problem in RescueTime on May 22, 2008 10:29:

Need better way to delete erroneous tags and favorite tags
I spent a couple of hours the first time I used RescueTime tagging applications and web-sites. After looking at my stats for the first week I realized that the "scheme" I was using "all wrong"

I was hoping to find a "clear all tags" button so I could start over.

I'm now going through the painfully slow process of trying to remove all tags. Uggh - getting server errors etc.(502 proxy error)! Also the web page "appears" to allow stacking multiple requests but I think in reality its only doing the first one I click [Remove It] on and throwing away anything else. I tried to short-cut the process by starting multiple tabs but its just gives me the above error.

Finally I've got rid of all my existing tags ... how do I clear out my favorite tags ... will these just "age out" when I add new tags?

See next post for a suggestion ...

Edit add ... just discovered that when I [Select All] before removing a tag it only affects the current page .... sigh ... 5 more pages to go :-(
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