Jerry I have followed your instructions sent via email which worked.

Today I started the bookmarkshelf again and added Firefox as another client. Then did an export to both Safari and Firefox.
Now I am back to square one with the duplicate bookmark (Mac User) disappeared from 'Forums' Bookmarks Bar folder in Safari.
Should I go through your procedure again with 2 clients?

please advise

thanks
Pete

In case it is helpful here is the Trouble data for the Mac Pro OLD Bookmarkshelf which I deleted.

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Just to verify, are you saying that in the Settings ▸ Clients tab, you add Safari as a Client by clicking the round "+" button, and then after an Export it has [b]disappeared?  You can do the Export (Safari) while the Settings ▸ Clients tab is showing.  What happens if you do that?  Does the Safari client disappear before your very eyes?[/b]

No. I was just saying that I am sure the client settings have disappeared (not before my eyes) in the past. I think when closing and re-opening the Bookmarkshelf.

Please run Trouble Zipper, as I suggested earlier and send us some data.  There are bound to be some clues on some of this stuff.  Launch BookMacster, and in the menu click Help ▸ Trouble Zipper and follow the instructions.

Attached
thanks
Pete

Petezzz wrote on Mar 21^st, 2011 at 11:51am:
It's possible, given the extreme strangeness of the things you are reporting.  Just to verify, are you saying that in the Settings ▸ Clients tab, you add Safari as a Client by clicking the round "+" button, and then after an Export it has disappeared?  You can do the Export (Safari) while the Settings ▸ Clients tab is showing.  What happens if you do that?  Does the Safari client disappear before your very eyes?

Please run Trouble Zipper, as I suggested earlier and send us some data.  There are bound to be some clues on some of this stuff.  Launch BookMacster, and in the menu click Help ▸ Trouble Zipper and follow the instructions.

Thanks,

Jerry

Hello again, Pete.  Thank you for the screenshots, and your persistence.  In your MacBook Pro screenshot, when I look in the window Bookmarkshelf-001.bkmslf ♢ BookMacster at the problem bookmark at the MacUser Forum, I see that in the Clients column it says No…ed).  The text is truncated, because the column is too narrow to show all the words, but if you make that column wider it will say None.  (Never imported or exported).  Let's focus on that problem, because there are just a few possible causes, and it's probably the key to this whole quandary.

Never exported explains why you don't see it in Safari.  It's never been exported.  In the menu click the Bookmarkshelf menu and look at the Export menu item.  Is it followed by Safari in parentheses, e.g. Export (Safari) ?  If so, then click this menu item.  After a few seconds, the words None.  (Never imported or exported) should change to Safari.  If so, then in Safari, open a new window and it should now be in your Bookmarks Bar.   Digressing, if the menu item does not say Export (Safari), then click the tab Settings ▸ Clients and make sure that Safari is listed as a Client and the Export box is checked as shown in my screenshot below.  After you've got a proper Export (Safari) menu item, click it, and see if it works now.

That's probably enough for one message; I'll await your reply, except I'll say that, regarding the crashes or other problems, or in case the above does not work as I explained, there may be other issues.  In BookMacster's Help menu there's a Trouble Zipper item which you can use to send me relevant logs and other data, and if you want to do that I'll share in the frustration and possibly see another problem.



 

Jerry Krinock wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 9:48pm:

I have had the most ridiculous amount of strange behaviours and crashes - way too many to list.
Following this I deleted the Bookmarkshelf and started again with a new one.
However for some reason, event though my Dropbox Bookmarkshelf files are identical in Kbs and date modified....the Mac Book Pro is still refusing to update with that second forum bookmark !! Unbelievable.
The new Bookmarkshelf content looks the same on both Macs. But on the Mac Book Pro when I export, Safari is not updating. That folder in Bookmarks bar is showing only one bookmark not two.
I have repeated this procedure a zillion times with no result. Including restarts, Save As and replacing Bookmarkshelf, 
see above answers to your questions - I have followed instructions for syncing in your link.
Tried checking and unchecking every possible setting in BookMacster.

Oh God now it's changed....the MacBook Pro is not showing the second bookmark either.
I have done hundreds of Exports, close, reopen Export again on both machines and Safari is not showing the second bookmark which is visible in content on Bookmarkshelf on both Macs
SEE SCREEN SHOTS
Oh you can only attach one...OK second screen shot on new topic next message
(sounds of nervous breakdown)
I give up.
Pete

Petezzz wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 9:25pm:
You have a .bkmslf file in a Dropbox account.  When you open this .bkmslf file on one the MacBook Pro, you see two bookmarks in a certain folder, but when you open the same .bkmslf file in the same Dropbox account on your Mac Pro, you only see one bookmark in this certain folder.

This is quite strange.  It would be fairly difficult for BookMacster to show different contents if the files were indeed the same.  I would first make sure that the Dropbox connection is working.  Open a Finder window to your Dropbox folder on both Macs.  Get Info on the two files.  Does their size show exactly the same number of logical bytes (the "bytes" in parentheses)?  Is their "Modified" Date/Time exactly the same?

Let me know and we'll go from there.

Petezzz wrote on Mar 19^th, 2011 at 9:25pm:
Not quite.  First of all, regarding the Content, you must do an initial Export on the second Mac to get both Macs in sync.  The initial sync must be done manually because, of course, your two Macs initially have different bookmarks, and if you don't manually indicate which one is "master", results will be unpredictable.  Second, the "Local Settings", (Open/Save, Clients, Agents) must be set manually because these can be different on each Mac, but I think you've got that.  The procedure for setting up Dropbox et al syncing is given in sec. 1.2.2 of the Help Book:
http://sheepsystems.com/bookmacster/HelpBook/SSYMH.01.02.html#cloudSync