THANK YOU for your patience, thoughts, prayers or whatever.  During the last hour we've confirmed that we have a workaround for the apparent bug in Apple's build tools which caused the bug explained in my previous post.

We shall need several hours (say, 6 hours maximum) to implement the workaround, and test, build and ship our new versions.  After that, when you click in the main menu under the application name > Check for Update, you should get BookMacster 3.0.1, Synkmark 3.0.1, or  Smarky 3.0.1.  These new versions shall restore syncing operation and fix the Error 208346 and related errors.

Same problem on my side after install Synkmark V3. Nothing now works.
Error 145725
Error 208346

When I try "manage browser extension", it tells me ""No response from Chrome"" despite extension being installed (even after uninstall/install)



I would like to come back to previous version, but unable to find it. Could you please help?

Thanks Jerry.

Curiously the MyStuff~.bmco package was in the DropBox folder when I first started version 3 and it asked me if I wanted to open a recent collection (I saw it in the Open dialogue). However, it disappeared from there immediately afterwards and I then found it in the DropBox Trash. It's not clear whether it was moved there by v2 or v3 (but not by me!).

I restored it to a local folder and tried opening it with both version 3 and version 2. Neither can open it. Version 2 gives error 256, version 3 gives error 260. Both say that persistentStore cannot be opened. So I guess the backup was also corrupted in the upgrade process.

I next attempted to create a new collection and export Chrome (on my laptop, which is running v3) to that collection, as Chrome has my complete bookmarks set in it. This generated an error that BookMacster could not communicate with the browser plugin. I tried restarting Chrome. I tried uninstalling and re-installing the extension. Still no communication.

I then decided to try a complete uninstall and re-install of BookMacster, including removing browser plugins from Chrome and Firefox. I created a new collection with the fresh copy of v3 and selected to only sync Chrome initially. BookMacster read in Chrome's bookmarks correctly (no plugin installed at this stage so I assume it reads the bookmark data directly from Chrome's store). I then added plugins for Chrome and Firefox, however when I test the plugins, both fail - they show status of "45 (OK) (loaded)" but then "No response from <browser>". I'm guessing this might be a permissions problem? The BookMacster app has full disk access but the sync agent isn't listed in the "full disk access" permissions/privacy list. I seem to remember having to add it there previously to get Safari syncing to work.

When I attempt a sync, Firefox and Chrome fail, as expected, but Safari syncs successfully. I get an error 145725, followed by a series of 208346 errors.

I'm running Monterey 12.6, Safari 16.0, Firefox 104.0.2, Chrome 105.0.5195.125.

Any suggestions how to get the Firefox and Chrome plugins working? Thanks!

I'm afraid that didn't go very well.

I followed the earlier instructions to update manually - quit BookMacster, dragged the old version to the Trash, moved the new version (3.0) to the Applications folder. I opened it from there and was prompted to either create a new collection or open a recent one.

I clicked the recent option, navigated to my bmco file in DropBox and opened that. I then had to re-enable Full Syncing. I then initiated a sync and got a warning that 3,513 of my bookmarks were going to be deleted! That was followed by a warning that the sync agent was not running.

I tried a reboot to see if that fixed the sync agent problem but no joy. It's still not running.

Sure enough, on checking the Content tab I have no bookmarks in my collection at all!

On my other Mac, BookMacster (v2.12.8) flags that it cannot open my collection because its version is not supported.

The actual bmco file on DropBox is 2.1MB in size so I assume there is data in it, just not accessible to either v3.0 or v2.12.8.

Any suggestions where I go from here and where I should look for the version 2 file that was hopefully preserved before the update?

Thank you for your patience.  Yes, Apple surprised us and jumped the gun on Safari 16.  Anyhow, after a couple long days and nights, BookMacster 3.0, Synkmark 3.0 and Smarky 3.0 are now available.  To get them, launch an old version and click in the main menu under the app's name: Check for Update.

In case you click through the "Check for Update" window without reading (like the kids do), please take a moment to appreciate the following important information regarding version 3.0:

Version 3.0 of our apps is free to run until October 31, 2022.  We plan to publish updates before October 31, and at some point there will be a payment required for an upgrade license, of course with exception for recent purchasers.

Running Version 3 of our apps will upgrade your application data to a more secure format.  Apple has stated that some future macOS version will no longer allow data in the old format to be opened, so you'll need to do this sooner or later anyhow.  Your old data will be preserved on disk by Version 3.0, but files will be renamed so that if you need to revert to Version 2 of our apps for some odd reason, you'll need some help from us.


Sincerely,

Jerry Krinock

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem.
When can we expect an alpha or a beta version of BookMacster 3?