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I wouldn't call it a 'broad problem'. I commented on this 7 months ago. And it still isn't fixed? I'd call that a 'deal breaker'. – nobodyz, on November 08, 2009 04:13

From: Colin, (Official Rep), commented 11 days ago

"Did you try using backup and restore to revert back to a correctly ordered version? "

No, actually. I had been a faithful fan of Xmarks for a very long time.
So, no, I didn't assume that when "Foxmarks" took over, it would
duplicate my bookmarks in illogical ways, replacing many different
links with ONE repeating page ....

.... Xmarks never behaved like that. I loved Xmarks. Stupid me,
I assumed that when Xmarks announced how excited it was to
become Foxmarks, I went along, trusting.

So, I had no backup. Therefore I lost almost everything I had collected
over probably 2 years or so. See, I had relied on Xmarks to save it
for me online, the way they said they would.

To the developer: If you have, as you stated above, "not automatically upgrading Foxmarks users to Xmarks immediately, so you'll have to go to the new download site to install Xmarks: http://download.xmarks.com/download/all " then could you please tell us where to download the old version of Foxmarks? To me, a download for Foxmarks that is called Xmarks no matter what link you follow is a forced upgrade. Many people would be happy (on this forum and on the Mozilla Add-On forum for Xmarks) to go get the old Foxmarks. I miss it. I will NOT install your Xmarks product again and will warn as many as I can about it's problems.

Good point, Tim. That's why I put "Don't get Xmarks..." at the beginning of the title of this thread. I really wish I had saved myself the wasted time. But now, I have it gone from both browsers, my bookmarks in Firefox all sorted out (by hand, by me) and I'm happy. Think I will save my bookmarks my own way for a while.... :) – nobodyz, on April 17, 2009 04:32

TO PJ: Open your Mozilla Browser, click on "Tools" (next to Help at top) then click on "Addons". When the box opens, scroll up or down until you see Xmarks. It will either give you the option to "Disable" or "Uninstall" or both. Choose the one you wish to do, either will stop the continuing problem of duplication. Also, you will still have to spend some time cleaning up your bookmarks as they will most likely already be duplicated. – nobodyz, on April 17, 2009 04:30

Tim: You have more confidence in an IE product than I do, my friend. Unfortunately, I can't seem to simply download Foxmarks for Mozilla only. There doesn't seem to be a Foxmarks anymore. You did post a good little instruction for those who wish to wait though; the way to disable in IE. That's good for those who do not wish to uninstall and want to wait for a solution. I have little faith in that myself.

It can also be disabled in Mozilla Firefox: just click on Tools, Addons, scroll to Xmarks and click "Disable" then restart the browser.

Tina: Thanks for commenting. It's nice to know one is not alone in one's sentiments. I don't trust IE to fix this in any reasonable time if at all; in other words, not enough to keep it installed. For those who believe it will be fixed, Tim's suggestion is a good one. At least it allows Microsoft to show us (*cough, cough*) that it might actually do something in the next year to fix this. When it was a Mozilla Firefox addon only, it worked fine. It seems that as soon as IE took over, it got messed up royally. This is so common a problem in my experience (M.S. or I.E. do something and it's badly mangled), I have faith that it will NOT be addressed. But that's just me. I appreciate the comments so that there are more possibilities than uninstalling for those reading. To each his or her own!

Good luck to both of you and hope your clean up didn't take the 2 1/2 hours (with the help of Firefox addon "Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.7.5) of grueling work mine did. If I went in manually on my IE browser to attempt cleanup, it would take far more than that. After 10 years online, I have a large collection of bookmarks.

I have the same problem. It seems to be only in relation to the IE version of Xmarks. I get DAILY notices that it needs to install a "newer" version (every day? I don't think so...) and when I allow it, it comes up with tons of multiple bookmarks. I sat with my finger pushing down the ENTER key to get through what was probably hundreds of bookmarks. Now that it's synchronized, it's ruined all my bookmarks and I'm very angry about this. I will take me HOURS to restore it to normal even using a Duplicate Bookmark Detector. This is a severely inferior product, if you ask me.