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. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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