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Bookmarks aren't syncing between my Macs

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Sync between my iMac and Macbook is working fine for everything except Bookmarks - any suggestions? Thanks

Sync between my iMac and Macbook is working fine for everything except Bookmarks - any suggestions? Thanks

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You can open about:sync-log via the location bar to see if there is a recent error log available. You can upload a recent log if the log is too big to put in a reply.

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Thanks - I'm not familiar with pastebin so hope I've done this right!

<script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/U6s4DvCx"></script>

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You can see at line 115 and further that there is a problem with the bookmarks.

1544985168110   Sync.Engine.Bookmarks   WARN    Error creating record: TypeError: http:/// is not a valid URL.(resource://gre/modules/Bookmarks.jsm:2441:18) JS Stack trace: rowsToItemsArray/<@Bookmarks.jsm:2441:18
rowsToItemsArray@Bookmarks.jsm:2425:10
query@Bookmarks.jsm:1969:26
1544985168161   Sync.Engine.Bookmarks.BookmarkSyncUtils DEBUG   pushChanges: Processed change records: {"weak":0,"skipped":2722,"updated":0}

You can check in the Bookmarks Manager (Library) if you can locate a "http:///" bookmark.

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks and history) in the Firefox profile folder.

  • use "Verify Integrity" button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page
    in case errors are reported close and restart Firefox and retry

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Thanks - there was a corrupted bookmark with "///" that wouldn't delete so I had to delete the sqlite files and it seems to have cleared up!