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?
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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.
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.
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