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 <rnew...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 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 all bookmarks and re-upload the restored set. If that restored set was
>> incomplete, the other devices then also got that incomplete set and
>> everyone was sad - it seems possible the server copy of the bookmarks could
>> be better than the restored set making the Sync behaviour simply wrong
>> here, but it's difficult to speculate about what is actually happening.
>
>
> For the record, note that a DELETE will remove records from the server,
> but not delete bookmarks from other devices — to do that they'd need to be
> real records containing {deleted: true}. What might have happened here:
>
> * The client wiped the server.
> * The client uploaded a subset of the user's bookmarks, including folders.
> * Other clients downloaded those records and made their local databases
> match.
>
> I would be surprised if this somehow deleted local unmentioned records.
> Sync might have moved the old children to Unfiled Bookmarks.
>
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