Re: bookmarks.html not updating
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"Miles" <mile...@REMOVEMEpacbell.net>, iletide sunu yazdi
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> * Fox on the run wrote, On 3/31/2009 16:57:
>> On Mar 31, 7:51 pm, Fox on the run <jjrbouc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mar 31, 7:19 pm, Miles <milesc...@REMOVEMEpacbell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The FX 3.0.8 bookmarks.html file dates read in Windows Explorer:
>>>> modified 3/16/09; created 3/13/09; accessed 3/31/09.
>>>> And I made a bookmarks.html.bak file on 1/4/09, which shows modified
>>>> 3/16 & accessed 3/18. The size hasn't changed either, reading 1,303kb
>>>> and the .bak reading 1,307.
>>>> About:config line: browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML reads true. Today
>>>> changed it to false, restarted FX, changed it back to true, restarted,
>>>> and no change. This has been further tested by adding a BM, re-opening
>>>> FX & Win Explorer and it doesn't appear in the bookmarks when double
>>>> click on bookmarks.html which opens the BM's on a new tab.
>>>> Have Foxmarks, if that could be relative? Any and all thoughts
>>>> welcome!
>>>> Miles
>>> I just tested it and it works fine for me (FF 3.0.8). Are you
>>> selecting the proper bookmarks.html file? It gets created in the
>>> user's profile folder. Do you have more than one profile by chance
>>> and are selecting the wrong one?
>>>
>>> JB
>>
>> Upon further testing I set bookmarks.html to read-only. When I did
>> that, it did not work. I could see that it tried to write to it but
>> couldn't (using a tool to monitor what was happening in the background
>> - same one that confirmed it worked previously). So make sure that
>> you have sufficient access rights to the file.
>>
>> JB
>
> Spent the morning checking this out and accomplished zilch. Bookmarks.html
> remains the same size and date -- and when opened in FF it does not
> contain the latest added bookmarks.
>
> 1) Searched the entire computer for bookmarks.html and found a several in
> backups and the base program on C drive. (The profile in use is on D
> drive.) But none reflect a change in dates or kb's, even after adding
> several BM's. However, places.sqlite and the journal do reflect different
> modified dates/times.
>
> 2) Ran FX in safe mode.
>
> 3) Perhaps relative is that the Library reads:
> History
> Tags
> All Bookmarks
> Bookmarks Toolbar
> Bookmark
> (containing all of the BM folders and BM's.)
> Unsorted Bookmarks (which contains a couple of BM's & their
> parent folders that are duplicates & without Location and
> cannot be deleted.)
>
> Whatever else that might have been there I deleted long ago.
>
> 4) Also perhaps relative that the modified date of BM.HTML is 3/18/09.
> The profile was copied over to Firefox Portable 2 months prior and nothing
> was done on the desktop FX until 3/4/09 when I returned, when the portable
> profile was copied to the desktop.
>
> AM Deadlink was run about the same date as the modified date of the
> BM.html file, but can't be certain since I didn't make a note and for some
> reason there's no log entry in AMDL.
>
> 5) About:config browser.bookmarks.autoexportHTML reads true. I changed
> it to false, restarted FX, and changed it back to true, but no change with
> the BM.html file.
>
> 6) In safe mode notice that many changes made, mostly apparently by
> extensions, remain in bold. Perhaps disabling all extensions prior to
> restarting in safe mode would eliminate this? Also many in bold including
> all browser.places entries. Incidentally what is
> "browser.bookmarks.restore_default_bookmarks which is false -- afraid if I
> change it to true might lose all!
>
> At this stage I'm at whit's end having tried everything that comes to
> mind. Any suggestions would be appreciated -- perhaps there's another
> setting in about:config that was changed by an extension?
>
> Miles