OK, there is about a 10-second window wherein, if you add a bookmark to Chrome just as BookMacster is about to export changes from Safari, that new bookmark in Chrome won't be noticed and therefore will be deleted during the export.  Happily, we're already calculating and storing hash values of imports and exports, and with one minor tweak it looks like we're now covering that 10-second window.  I'll be back when we're done testing to make sure that we haven't introduced any unintended consequences.

After studying Kristy's data, and noting that she had not restarted since the problem started, we suggested that she restart and then BookMacster Agents started working again.

Note that Kristy is using last year's system, Mac OS X 10.7.  I myself had this happen to me a couple times when I was using 10.7.  It is rare and I could never figure out how to reproduce it.  I reported it as a bug to Apple, and they later indicated to me that it has been fixed in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Unfortunately, troubleshooting this issue as Kristy did is time-consuming, but if anyone using Mac OS X 10.8 is ever able to reproduce it, let us know and we'll work on Apple some more. 

If you're using Mac OS X 10.7, restart and add it to your list of reasons why you'll upgrade to 10.8 one of these days.  Sorry!

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Now, regarding Sazun's issue of BookMacster missing new bookmarks in Chrome, we tried to reproduce that by opening a couple dozen tabs and firing off new bookmarks while BookMacster was syncing.  But BookMacster didn't miss any.  We're working on scripting a more stressful test.

Another reason that I've found for BookMacster not sorting and syncing is if in your Settings/Clients configuration you have included more browsers than are actually on your Mac or in my case I had deleted a browser and it remained in the Clients list of browsers; BookMacster will not complete sorting or syncing until you have removed the nonexistent browser in the Clients list lineup.

Hi. I upgraded to new version and started from scratch,  deleting old bookmarkshelf documents and creating new ones. As before I have made two documents: one for syncing Chrome and Safari (my intented application) and one for syncing Camino and Firefox for testing purposes.

In the Camino-Firefox case, all changes from Firefox are detected and copied to Camino. But no changes from Camino are detected (no entries in log). The major problem here is that new bookmarks created in Camino are deleted when a change in Firefox trigger a sync.

In the Chrome-Safari case, things work better, and MOST of the changes in bookmarks are detected in the two browsers. But some times adding a bookmark in Chrome is not correctly detected (I think this corresponds to a log entry telling "Ignoring spurious changes from Chrome"). Again, if after the missed addition of new Chrome Bookmarks, another bookmark is added in Safari, that triggers a sync that DELETES the new bookmarks in Chrome.

This a big concern for me. A missed sync is not a big problem if a posterior one correctly syncs the browsers bookmarks. I have been doing regular Import All and Export All from BookMacster and never losing one. But now I am seeing bookmarks deleted because they are not detected when being added in first place. I hope this can be sorted. Thanks in advance for your help.

I upgraded to the new version and then tried adding a new bookmark.  It's still not showing up in the log.

Yes, mine is enabled (see attached screenshot).

Hi. Same problem here. The plists are created and the agents are loaded but there are no entries in the log after adding bookmarks. I have tried this with Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Camino (also checked Firefox Extension is active).