Well, as I said, if you have not set an Agent to Import automatically, and do not Import manually, then any bookmarks that you save in any browser will disappear the next time that you Export.  Although you can tweak this behavior somewhat by getting into Advanced Client Settings, by default Export in BookMacster means to change the content in the browser clients so that it looks like the Content in the Bookmarkshelf.  Therefore, any items that are not in the Bookmarkshelf will indeed by wiped out.

I think we've dealt with the Reading List issue?

One other bug we've been fixed during the last couple weeks is that if you are switching rapidly back and forth between Safari and Firefox, creating bookmarks in each, or if you are rapidly create bookmarks in Firefox and create one within a certain ~5-second window which occurs every 5 minutes, you might occasionally lose a bookmark.  This bug is fixed in BookMacster 1.8 which we'll release soon.

Howard,

I fired up a Mac running 10.6.8, got Safari 5.1.1, tried exporting bookmarks to the Reading List, and it works fine for me.  Please watch this little 1-minute movie and see if you're doing something different than I…

http://sheepsystems.com/files/ForumMsgRefs/ReadingListInSnowLeopardWorks.mov

After I made this movie, I was thinking that maybe you've never imported from Safari since adding bookmarks to your Reading List.  That is, if the Reading/Unsorted is empty in a Bookmarkshelf, and you export it to Safari, then indeed your Safari Reading List will be emptied out. That is the expected behavior for an Export.

In normal operation, however, a BookMacster Agent will Import before it processes and Exports.  Since you are doing this manually, you should do the same thing:  Import, manage bookmarks as desired, then Export.  If you never Import, you'll never get any new items from Safari, either from the Reading List or anywhere else.  You'll just keep exporting the same old bookmarks all the time.

Although not shown in the movie, later I tested the reverse operation, importing from the Reading List, and it works too.  Bookmarks from Safari's Reading List are imported to BookMacster's Reading/Unsorted folder.

Let me know if this explanation resolves the issue.

Thanks!

Correction. CMD-U (Update) that wipes out the reading list; CMD-J just does a sort.

Typically every few days I will go to BookMacster, clean up the Drop Box entries, then do a CMD-J, CMD-U.

OK, Howard.  Let me further interpret your message to mean that this disappearing of all bookmarks in your Reading List was happening, oh, once every couple days.  Then, you stopped using the ⌘J manual syncs for several days, and so far you've not lost any bookmarks.

We'll try and reproduce that.

Hello, Howard.  You've described a bug that was fixed in BookMacster version 1.7.3, released on Oct 08.  Please launch BookMacster and click in the menu BookMacster ▸ Check for Update.  Let us know if updating does not fix the problem.