Hello, Gilbert.
Thank you for contacting us.
Yes, if you move Synkmark to the Mac which you use more often, your bookmarks will be synced more often.
Before configuring Synkmark or BookMacster on a second Mac, make sure that you are not going to create, even temporarily, a
Sync Loop. As I understand your system, you are using only iCloud>Safari to sync bookmarks between your two Macs. With this by itself, there is no possibility of a Sync Loop. But please ensure that you are not
signed in to Chrome with Bookmarks syncing switched on. If you were so signed in on both Macs, this would create a Sync Loop. To be safe, in Chrome, on both Macs, either switch off Bookmarks or sign out of Chrome.
Regarding Synkmark on both Macs, yes you can do this if you are very careful, but I don't recommend it. The small benefit is that your bookmarks will be synced between Safari and Chrome within a few minutes of any change. But there are some large risks. Someday you may forget about Sync Loops and accidentally create one, because Google is constantly thinking up new ways to encourage you to
sign in. Also, you could accidentally create in Synkmark a situation that is kind of like a Sync Loop, if the two are configured differently. For example, say on Mac A you set the sort direction to be ascending (A-Z) but on Mac B you set the sort direction to be descending (Z-A). Then after Synkmark on Mac A sorts, and then changes get synced to Mac B, Synkmark on Mac B will see that, given its settings, things are upside down and re-sort them the other way. But when this is synced back to Mac A, Synkmark on Mac A will sort them back, and they would fight this way forever. There are other settings, for example
folders above bookmarks would cause a similar problem. True, this would not happen if you never deviated from the default settings. But there is another risk, that some Chrome or Synkmark update would change the way things are done be default. For example, someday we might add a feature for the user to select how the
Other Bookmarks in in Chrome maps into Safari. Or Google could re-introduce a new version of their
Enhanced Bookmarks Manager which bombed a few years ago and was withdrawn 6 weeks later. Since both Macs won't be updated simultaneously, there might be a similar
fight for a time, and although there would probably be a happy ending, I can't be 100% sure. Systems that have too many moving parts quickly sprawl beyond human comprehension, and those who are pushing the limits are most likely to get bit by the resulting bugs.
To move Synkmark data from one Mac A to Mac B, probably the safest way is to just install it on Mac B and configure it from scratch. On Mac B, use the License Installer file which should hve been emailed to you, or
request a copy. After Synkmark does the initial import on Mac B, look at the two numbers in the
Name column heading and verify that these are the same as you had on Mac A. It should eliminate duplicates on the initial import. But if the result does not look good,
Click in the menu: Bookmarks > Delete all content
Click in the menu: File > Import from only > and choose Safari or Chrome.
By re-importing from only one browser, there is almost nothing that can go wrong.
Another, more advanced alternative would be to try this:
Quit Synkmark on both Macs.
On Mac A, copy the folder
~/Library/Application Support/BookMacster, and the file
~/Library/Preferences/com.sheepsystems.Synkmark.plist from Mac A to Mac B. This is essentially what happens to Synkmark if you'd migrate to a new Mac using Apple's Migration Assistant. But since you're also not migrating Safari and Chrome at the same time, there might be an issue with item identifiers. Safari bookmarks would have the same identifiers due to iCloud, but Chrome would probably not. After the migration, do a a File > Export to only > Chrome you may need to temporarily disable the
Safe Sync Limit.