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[GH-ISSUE #111] How to setup sync on a second browser without destroying the bookmarks? #106
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Originally created by @CajusH on GitHub (May 28, 2018).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/floccusaddon/floccus/issues/111
Software versions
Please read until the end, some issues solved themselves, but might be worth a note in the installation docu or some prevention in floccus...
Steps to reproduce
Half of the bockmarks disappeared one after each other... :-(
Expected outcome
It should be possible do do an "initial sync" on a second browser, with the option to remove all the old bookmarks. This should also work on a fresh browse, with no bookmarks existing at all.
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Actual outcome
I had to restore the bookmarks on both browsers (via import of my saved bookmarks file)
On computer no.1, I clicked "Sync Now" again after the restore and it seem to run forever.
The dialog says "Syncing..." and stays like this (since 20 minutes now), even after restart of firefox.
I deleted the floccus account on computer no.1 and created a new one (with the same user and options). "Sync Now" worked again on this computer (no destroying of bookmarks)
Back to computer no.2: I noticed a message "Reconnect to Sync" on this computer. This Firefox had been connected to an old local firefox sync server, which isn't working with FF 60 any more. I deleted the complete .mozilla folder and setup firefox from scratch. Starting with all bookmarks deleted (even those that are created by firefox on empty preferences) It synced with nextcloud without an error!
All the bookmarks appeared EXCEPT those in the "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste". So I copied the complete "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste"-folder into my "Lesezeichen-Menu"-folder and did a Sync.
This new folder did NOT appear on computer no.2 after I did a sync there!??
Then I added one item to the "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" on computer no. 2 - Sync - and this one appeared on computer no. 1 after resync.
Delete the new item on computer no. 1 also deletes the item on no. 2 after sync, but the original items from the "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" did never showed up, neither as "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" or as folder inside my "Lesezeichen-Menu"-folder.
OOPS: The name "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" seems to be special to firefox. You cannot edit the name of a folder with the name "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" at any place inside your bookmarks
I just moved the bookmarks out of my folder "Lesezeichen-Menu"-"Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" (which was the copy from the root -"Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste") and all bookmarks from the root -"Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" disappeaed as well
Then I copied the bookmarks back to the root -"Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" and deleted my folder "Lesezeichen-Menu"-"Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste". The bookmarks are now at two places: the root -"Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" and in a folder "Lesezeichen-Menu"-"dummy".
Now I cannot sync any more because floccus complains same URL is bookmared twice
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@CajusH commented on GitHub (May 28, 2018):
In the mean time both browsers seem to work as expected.
I created two accounts on each browser: one for "Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste" and and one for "Lesezeichen-Menu". Both accounts write to a path with the same name on nextcloud. With this configuration you can sync both.
I had one more issue with bookmarks getting lost on sync, but I couldn't reproduce it.
When the sync on computer no. 1 runs and/or get stuck, a sync on computer no.2 seem to trash half of the bookmarks.
@marcelklehr commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2018):
I'm not sure I was able to follow you. :S Could you sum up the issues you are able to reproduce and/or how you would improve the documentation?
@CajusH commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2018):
I'm sorry, I wrote the bug report during the testing and trying. The result is a spaghetti-like report :-)
I saw you have released 3 more versions in the meantime.
With 2.2.7 I did not have problems with disappearing bookmarks again.
Sync from my 2 computers seem to run now without getting stuck.
Currently I only have 2 minor open issues:
1.) bookmarks deleted from one computer don't get deleted on the second computer and may re-appear on the first computer after syncing the second computer
2.) The order of the bookmarks gets mixed sometimes, which is not nice.
You might decide to create a separate issue for 1.), but it is hard to reproduce, as it does not happen every time. For the 2.) I saw #113 already complains about this.
About improving the documentation: My first tries with floccus were done on a browser, which had an old Firefox-Sync account setup. Although this account wasn't working any more, some issues seem to disappear after I cleared the Firefox preferences. I am not sure, if this non-working sync account could have confused floccus. If this could be the case, you should mention it in the installation ReadMe. There might be more guys like me, searching for a replacement of the old Firefox Sync protocol, which was easy to host yourself.
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