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I have since discovered ("since" this crisis...) that xMarks actually stores your bookmarks like a 'restore point', and you can log to the server (assuming you have an account, of course!) and restore your bookmarks from a previous point.

So all is not lost, mercifully. I assume you can do that with Safari also, chipmck

"bookmark duplicate detector addon will make it appear as if your bookmarks are disappearing"

What do you mean by that statement? What's a duplicate detector add-on?

Why did you change from Foxmarks to Xmarks anyway??? My bookmarks was a huge repository of resource material.

Frustrated? That comes nowhere near what I am feeling right now....

The same is happening to me. Yesterday, I log on with Firefox (3) and it does a bunch of updates to the various add-ons. Restart Firefox? Ok. Next thing I get an error message telling me my bookmark list is way shorter than it was.

Boy, did it really mean that. Everything has gone. So I do a synch with the Xmarks server, and everything has disappeared from the server.

So I'm not in a flap yet, as I have everything stored on my laptop, so I carefully go into the wizard to make absolutely certain it does not synch with the nul list on the server, but rather takes them all from my laptop.

What does it do? It restores the nul set from the server onto my laptop.

NOW I AM PISSED. I had hundreds of bookmarks, all logically stored in heavily nested "folders", and they have disappeared from both computers without any instruction from me.

Can someone explain this in terms I can comprehend??

Thanks for your prompt reply, Nate. I wasn't aware that Xmarks works on different browsers. Cool! – crocodile_dondii, on June 11, 2009 07:19