The issue indeed was due to hitting the Safe Sync Limit.  I followed the recommendation and did the housecleaning in Syncmark which I didn't previously understand/appreciate.

Everything is syncing as expected again in all three browsers.

Thank you for the assistance!

Hello,

Thanks for the info.  I looked in the Notification settings and in Application Notifications there are two items listed - BkmxNotifier-A and BkmxNotifier-B.  Not sure if there are supposed to be two but both are turned off.

I looked in Logs > Errors and there are several listings for:

"Snkmk Error 214752 Could not parse system response"

and several named:

"Snkmk Error 103011 An Import operation was aborted because it would have caused 0 items to be added to, 1 items to updated in, and 51 items to be deleted from Synkmark."

The number to be deleted varies, but the other values are all 0 for added and 1 for updated.

Not sure if the double listing for the Notifier or the Error messages provides any clues.

I checked in Synkmark > Preferences > Syncing and the delay is set to 60 seconds.  I also confirmed that all three browsers are selected for Import and Export.

I closed Synkmark and as a test, I deleted a browser folder that had two bookmarks, waited for 5 minutes and checked the other browsers.  The changes did not appear in Firefox or Chrome.

I then opened Synkmark and noticed that Syncing was paused (red exclamation point).  The strange thing is before I closed Synkmark, the sync icon was yellow.

So once I enabled syncing which then pushed the deleted bookmark folder and its contents back into Safari.  I again closed Synkmark making sure the sync icon was yellow, deleted the bookmark folder and contents in Safari and waited 5 minutes.  I again checked in Firefox and Chrome and they both still had the book folder and contents.

When I opened Synkmark again, syncing was again paused.  So I enabled it which triggered pushing the deleted folder back to Safari.  I then closed Synkmark making sure the sync icon was yellow and the repeated the process of deleting the bookmark folder and waiting.  This time the folder and contents were deleted from FF and Chrome.  Yay!  I opened Synkmark and this time the sync icon was still yellow.

I've opened and closed the app half a dozen more times and twice syncing it was paused when it was opened even though it was yellow when Synkmark was closed.  The other four times, it was yellow and ready to sync.  I am not sure what I am doing to cause syncing to pause.  Perhaps I am misunderstanding what should be happening.  Any guidance is appreciated.

Jerry Krinock wrote on Jan 14^th, 2025 at 11:12pm:


I have decided to try adding Firefox as a browser to sync to recently.  I mainly am using Firefox now but on occasion use Chrome and Safari.  If I make changes in Firefox or Chrome, the changes propagate to the other browsers, but if I make changes in Safari (iOS or desktop) the changes are not transferred to the other browsers.  If I do open Synkmark and export the changes, the bookmarks that were deleted in Safari are seen as missing since they are still in Chrome and Firefox, so they are pushed back to Safari.

Not sure how I should make changes in Safari and have them be replicated to the other browsers.

I had gone through the page before prior to posting but went through it once again.  I made one change in Chrome and waited for a few minutes and the bookmark appeared in Safari.  The Sync log also shows the change.  Perhaps the issue was with Firefox and I didn't pursue a resolution before removing it from the syncing.  I also have misinterpreted the Sync Log, thinking it was showing pending syncs but now I understand it is showing what was synced.

If I decide to add Firefox back into the mix, I will be more diligent when I set it up.  Are there any recommendations to undertake when one has two browswers syncing successfully and wants to add an additional one?

Hello,

Here is the output of the report:

# Syncing Status Report

Synkmark DOES have access to Safari bookmarks.

Synkmark is enabled in main menu:  > System Settings > Login Items.  We are therefore able to run BkmxAgent.  (Good!)

A BkmxAgent process with these attributes is running:
    Name: BkmxAgent
    Bundle Identifier: com.sheepsystems.BkmxAgent-20240924-104119
    Found in app package: Synkmark
    Process Identifier (pid): 1912
    was launched 05 hours 44 minutes 05 seconds ago

Process Identifiers of all running BkmxAgent executables: (
    1912
)

BkmxAgent DOES have access to Safari bookmarks.

Pid 1912 has had the following Watches running since 2025-01-12 17:04:25

• Watching for any change in file/Users/gilbertbreen/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
• Watching for any change in file/Users/gilbertbreen/Library/Application Support/BookMacster/Changes/Detected/Chrome.Default/
• Watching for any change in file/Users/gilbertbreen/Library/Application Support/BookMacster/Synkmark.bmco/auxiliaryData.plist
• Watching for whenever you log in to macOS
• Watching for whenever you land a new bookmark directly to Synkmark
Summary: Watching 6 paths, 0 apps for launch, 0 apps for quit, 2 miscellaneous watches

Path Watches Now Armed (active kqueues):

• /Users/gilbertbreen/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
• /Users/gilbertbreen/Library/Application Support/BookMacster/Synkmark.bmco/auxiliaryData.plist
• /Users/gilbertbreen/Library/Application Support/BookMacster/Changes/Detected/Chrome.Default/

Watches which are temporarily muted because a recent trigger is still in handling:

[None]

Active Batons:

[None]

Watches for all of our apps:

1.  Watches for BookMacster:  (
)

2.  Watches for Synkmark:  (
    "B-Landing subj=(null) app=Synkmark dUUID=FD9C cli=(null) Trig/p227 inPr=0 actv=0",
    "PathTouch subj=Safari/Bookmarks.plist app=Synkmark dUUID=FD9C cli=Safari||thisUser||| Trig/p229 inPr=0 actv=0",
    "PathTouch subj=Detected/Chrome.Default app=Synkmark dUUID=FD9C cli=Chrome|Default|thisUser||| Trig/p228 inPr=0 actv=0",
    "PathTouch subj=Synkmark.bmco/auxiliaryData.plist app=Synkmark dUUID=FD9C cli=(null) Trig/p230 inPr=0 actv=0",
    "UserLogIn subj=(null) app=Synkmark dUUID=FD9C cli=(null) Trig/p226 inPr=0 actv=0"
)

3.  Watches for Smarky:  (
)

Staged Jobs:

[None]

Queued or Running Jobs: (
)


 

Hello,

I have used Synkmark for several years and find it invaluable.  I sync my bookmarks between Chrome and Safari.  It has been working great and I recently decided to add syncing to Firefox as there are some websites that work better with it.  However, since adding Firefox, the bookmarks stopped automatically syncing.

If I make changes in a browser the changes wouldn't sync.  If I open Synkmark, I can see the list of changes waiting in the Sync Log, but they only propogate if I pause syncing (by clicking on the yellow Syncing button and then reenable syncing by clicking on the red exclamation Syncing button.

I thought the issue might be with Firefox, so I removed Firefox as one of the browsers to sync, but the issue still continues with Chrome and Safari.  When I make changes, they don't sync unless I open Synkmark and pause and reenable syncing.  I must have changed something but not sure what to check.

I am running Synkmark on macOS Sonoma on an M1 Mac mini.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!