Re: Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Newman
If "missing" means "they were all quietly moved to a folder you didn't look in", it's possible. Without client logs we're in the realm of pure speculation. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > Would this scenario (there were only 2 clients in sync which each other > over t

Re: Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Axel Kittenberger
Would this scenario (there were only 2 clients in sync which each other over the syncserver) lead to a situation where the bookmarks in subfolders were eventually missing in both? On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Richard Newman wrote: > I know that Firefox keeps many bookmark backups and will

Re: Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Richard Newman
> > I know that Firefox keeps many bookmark backups and will restore them in > some cases (eg, on a corrupt places.db) - so it seems possible that > something unrelated to Sync went wrong initially and Firefox made an > attempt to recover bookmarks, which caused Sync to delete the server copy > of

Re: Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Axel Kittenberger
> It looks like Sync will issue this command after a restore of bookmarks completes, > presumably with the intention of re-uploading those newly restored bookmarks In that case this command was me trying to restore updates. To trying to figure out what happened. This is a two device setup, a work

Re: Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Mark Hammond
On 10/09/2015 8:25 pm, Ryan Kelly wrote: On 10/09/2015 20:13, Axel Kittenberger wrote: Dear List! I just finished setting up an own sync server and started set up the sync for one of my coworkers. Unfortunally after a day it deleted all his bookmarks that were stored within folders. Ouch :-(

Re: Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Axel Kittenberger
Apart from figuring out, what this delete command might have triggered, how can I properly restore the bookmarks to work with sync again? When I just reload them from the backup, the next sync seems to delete it again. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Ryan Kelly wrote: > On 10/09/2015 20:13, Ax

Re: Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Ryan Kelly
On 10/09/2015 20:13, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > Dear List! > > I just finished setting up an own sync server and started set up the > sync for one of my coworkers. Unfortunally after a day it deleted all > his bookmarks that were stored within folders. Ouch :-( I hope we can get to the bottom of

Firefox Sync deleted all Bookmarks in Folders

2015-09-10 Thread Axel Kittenberger
Dear List! I just finished setting up an own sync server and started set up the sync for one of my coworkers. Unfortunally after a day it deleted all his bookmarks that were stored within folders. My config and logs are on pastebin, due to 100k limit of the list: http://pastebin.com/BRtzrxUd Its