On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 23:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 09/15/17 23:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > For complicated reasons involving changing browsers, my set of Chrome
> > bookmarks was messed up. Luckily I have a backup of the correct set,
> > but when I shut down Chrome and do:
> > 
> > $ cp .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak 
> > .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks
> > 
> > on starting up Chrome it briefly shows the correct bookmarks but within
> > a couple of seconds the old (bad) set is restored. This is reflected in
> > the respective files (the .bak is the good set):
> > 
> > $ ls -l .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks*
> > -rw-------. 1 poc poc 2216739 Sep 15 15:51 
> > .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks
> > -rw-rw-rw-. 1 poc poc  104157 Sep 15 15:51 
> > .config/google-chrome/Default/Bookmarks.bak
> > 
> > This happens repeatedly, even when I've turned off all extensions and
> > set the startup preference to not open existing pages. It still manages
> > to find this bad data somewhere.
> > 
> > I'm using google-chrome-stable-61.0.3163.91-1.x86_64
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> 
> Are you by chance syncing your bookmarks with a google account and that 
> account you
> are syncing with has the bad data?
> 
> I am syncing and when I create a new VM and use Chrome I get all of my 
> bookmarks set
> as they are for my "work" system.  I also get all the extensions loaded as 
> well.

Good catch. I toggled syncing in the browser but the setting didn't
actually turn off (which looks like a bug). Only when I cleared the
synched data using the Google management page did it pay attention.
That seems to have solved it.

Thanks Ed.

poc
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