Bookmark File External Editing

[Jonah Bron]

Hello, world!

I'm trying to write a Python script to run on Linux, that can sync the
bookmarks between my different browsers. I have tried closing Chrome,
editing an entry in the Bookmarks file, and opening up Chrome again.
The changes do not take effect, and the file is not rolled back. I
even tried changing both the Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak file.

At the beginning of the file, I see a checksum. How is that affecting
what I'm doing? How is that checksum actually generated? My script
will need to read and write bookmarks to this file, and my manual
attempts have failed so far.

Advice?

Thanks!

[Jonathan Huang]

Are you attempting to use chrome bookmark sync, or is your python
script doing sync separately? The checksum is generally used to ensure
that the bookmark data is in sync with bookmark sync data.

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[Jonah Bron]

It is not using chrome bookmark sync. It's just reading bookmark
files from various browsers, and merging them.

[Jonah Bron]

Never mind! I took a look at my System Monitor, and chromium hadn't
shut down for some reason. My changes are taking effect now. Thanks
for your help!

>Chrome already has a feature that can keep your bookmarks in sync with other machines. See Wrench menu > Sync my bookmarks.
>
>To answer you particular question: the checksum is used for us to determine if the file changed on disk or not. So it shouldn't affect >what you are doing, and Chrome should load the bookmarks you added. But I wonder why it's not happening in your case. Can you >make sure the changes you made are syntactically correct?
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>-Munjal