We just released the latest version of Foxmarks, version 2.0.39, to the Mozilla Add-ons site (AMO). For the next two hours, we're going to let a sizable group download it, and then pull it back (reverting AMO to 2.0.34, the previous version). This will allow us to determine if there are any problems with this latest version. If no problems emerge (and we're certainly not expecting any), we will re-release the extension for good. This is a new process for us, but our recent experience has taught us to be more cautious than we have been in the past.
As before, if you see what seems like a new problem with this version, please let us know here. If you're having an ongoing problem and require assistance, please contact support -- for a variety of reasons, we can't answer specific questions or provide specific help here on the blog.
I'm running it right now, and I just synced with no problems. I appreciate what you guys do.
ReplyDeleteCheers. :)
My bookmarks got eaten up already so I might as well try the latest version? What I can see in my foxmarks are now are a handful of folders and hundreds of round icons that used to be my bookmarks. On an XP system I still have a full set of it's bookmarks but the backups are marked read only and for some reason it will not let me change the attributes at all. Can't export them, can't copy them, but I can use them. The other two Vista systems both have the long list of round icons with nothing behind then and just a handful of folders. It almost looks like XP sees the right ones but Vista just sees lots of icons. Not really sure what is the best thing to try now, other than delete everything and start over saying goodby to many years worth of bookmarks. Any thoughts on the best way to proceed??
ReplyDelete@Ed King: Whoa! I have no idea how that might have happened, though it really sounds like maybe Vista isn't allowing read/write access to the proper files. Do you see any interesting messages on the Error Console and/or in your foxmarks.log file?
ReplyDeleteI notice with the new version (rev 2 probably) that bookmarks seem to merge automatically rather than asking me to choose (like it used to) when I rearranged the folders. I have 3 computers, one of which I hardly ever use. When I run foxmarks on that one it re-adds folders I have moved on the other PCs and duplicates the folder so it appears twice in different places. It also moves latest bookmark additions to the bottom of the folder list instead of where I placed them somewhere in the middle. Any chance of an option on the advanced tab that either lets me set it to ask first like it used to, or a setting that makes it do a download-only automatically if the remote set is changed and the local one hasn't.
ReplyDelete@Tom Blandford: Version 2 does make some (hopefully) intelligent decisions regarding bookmark conflicts, but it sounds like you're encountering something else altogether. There's no option to make all conflict resolution manual, but let's see if we can figure out what's going on--please send us your foxmarks.log as detailed here:
ReplyDeletehttp://wiki.foxmarks.com/wiki/Foxmarks:_Sending_us_your_Log_File
...and we'll see if we can figure out what's going on (if you can give us an idea of which bookmarks were getting re-added and/or duplicated, that'll help a bunch).
Thanks!
I think my issue is related to the intelligent decisions made by V2. Try moving a whole sub-folder of bookmarks from one folder to another within your set of bookmarks. Then merge bookmarks with those on another PC and the folder is duplicated in both it's old location and new one. In the older V1 if I did this, it used to ask me which folder to put the moved bookmarks in. It's not a big deal for me. Foxmarks works really well normally and I couldn't live without it now! I decided to set foxmarks to not sync on my laptop. I will do a manual download each time I use that computer and need bookmarks. If you still want to see my log file for your own development work, I can send it. Tom
ReplyDeleteOK, it might be that I upgraded to V2 and that caused a merge instead of a sync to happen on my laptop even though I had previously synced with V1. Is that possible?
ReplyDeleteIf that is the case, it shouldn't happen again, so all is good. I use my laptop so rarely that there is often an upgrade to install. I hope it will not merge every time I update, as this affects all computers once it happens.
If you produce a V3 maybe you could consider a code that remembers that sync has happened before. When I upgraded to V2 the status said "never synced" which wasn't really true. The upgrade on the last machine was done weeks later than the others and that must have been what caused the upset since I moved the folders in between times.
By the way, my laptop uses Win98 while others are on XP Pro.
Thanks for your help.