Jerry Krinock wrote on Mar 19
th, 2011 at 9:48pm:
Petezzz wrote on Mar 19
th, 2011 at 9:25pm:
Trouble is when I start Bookmacster on the Mac Pro and look at Content it is only showing the one Apple Discussions bookmark in the Forum folder in Bookmarks Bar.
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)?
YES
Is their "Modified" Date/Time exactly the same?
YES
Let me know and we'll go from there.
Petezzz wrote on Mar 19
th, 2011 at 9:25pm:
I thought that when I Imported, Saved and Exported on the MacBookPro it would have updated the Bookmarkshelf on Dropbox. And when I start Bookmacster on Mac Pro it should import the new Bookmarkshelf settings....?
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#cloudSyncI HAVE FOLLOWED THIS
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
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(sounds of nervous breakdown)
I give up.
Pete