On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 23:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 09/15/17 23:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> For complicated reasons involving changing browsers, my set of Chrome
> bookmarks was messed up. Luckily I have a backup of the correct set,
> but when I shut down Chrome and do:
>
> $ cp .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak
.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks
>
> on starting up Chrome it briefly shows the correct bookmarks but within
> a couple of seconds the old (bad) set is restored. This is reflected in
> the respective files (the .bak is the good set):
>
> $ ls -l .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks*
> -rw-------. 1 poc poc 2216739 Sep 15 15:51 .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks
> -rw-rw-rw-. 1 poc poc 104157 Sep 15 15:51
.config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak
>
> This happens repeatedly, even when I've turned off all extensions and
> set the startup preference to not open existing pages. It still manages
> to find this bad data somewhere.
>
> I'm using google-chrome-stable-61.0.3163.91-1.x86_64
>
> Any thoughts?
>
Are you by chance syncing your bookmarks with a google account and that account you
are syncing with has the bad data?
I am syncing and when I create a new VM and use Chrome I get all of my bookmarks set
as they are for my "work" system. I also get all the extensions loaded as
well.
Good catch. I toggled syncing in the browser but the setting didn't
actually turn off (which looks like a bug). Only when I cleared the
synched data using the Google management page did it pay attention.
That seems to have solved it.
Thanks Ed.
poc