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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
