Anyone having problems with many duplicate copies of your bookmarks?

[richpjr]

Ever since turning on syncing between my various devices, my Safari bookmarks keep getting dozens and dozens of copies of all of my bookmarks. It's painful and you can only delete one bookmark at a time in Safari. For the life of me I can't figure out where all these copies are coming from, but it's massively annoying. I ended up having to turn off syncing of bookmarks and cleaned things up a month or so ago. I turned synching on again last night and sure enough I ended up with many copies again.

Anyone else run into anything like this?

 

[Tinmania]

Yes, this is driving me crazy.

I "think" it is because of iOS and Mobile Safari. It handles bookmarks a little differently than Safari. But that said my bookmarks don't seem duplicated on my iPhone and iPad. Only on my macs do they seem duplicated. I don't remember this problem with MobileMe only with iCloud.



Michael

 

[richpjr]

Yes, this is driving me crazy.

I "think" it is because of iOS and Mobile Safari. It handles bookmarks a little differently than Safari. But that said my bookmarks don't seem duplicated on my iPhone and iPad. Only on my macs do they seem duplicated. I don't remember this problem with MobileMe only with iCloud.

Michael

It's driving me crazy too! I guess I need to spend a bit more time figuring out why this happens. Or use Chrome!

 

[Balooba]

Removed duplicates, but now what

Same problem here. I successfully manage to delete all duplicates (over 4000) using Safari Prairiefire but the duplicates are synced back again from the cloud. I guess the solution would be to:
1. turn off syncing
2. delete the bookmarks with Safari Praririefire
3. turn back syncing and tell the cloud to use the local, fixed, version of the bookmarks list.

The problem is that I cannot figure out how to perform step 3. Any suggestions?

 

[Balooba]

Figured out

Here is a blog post that describes a solution that solves it!

It describes the steps required to remove duplicates and then to upload the fixed set to iCloud.

http://web.me.com/petber/Mac_Tips/Mac_Tips_%26_Tricks/Entries/2012/1/22_Entry_1.html

 

[Balooba]

Here is a blog post that describes a solution that solves it!

It describes the steps required to remove duplicates and then to upload the fixed set to iCloud.

http://web.me.com/petber/Mac_Tips/Mac_Tips_%26_Tricks/Entries/2012/1/22_Entry_1.html

The page has moved to
http://www.macandiostips.com/Mac_and_iOS_Tips/Mac_Tips_%26_Tricks/Mac_Tips_%26_Tricks.html