synchronizing never completes

OK - now it suddenly worked - no changes. Very bizarre. ( Delete or Edit)

Lucky you. I'm still having the same problem. Is there any way to change this topic from "question" status to "problem" status? It seems like we aren't getting any attention from the Foxmarks people on this. Even a simple acknowledgment would help! ( Delete or Edit)

OK - now it suddenly stopped working again. Here is the sequence of log entries showing both that it worked and that it doesn't:

[2008-10-28 11:23:18] Success: Synchronization completed.
[2008-10-28 12:23:27] ------ Foxmarks/2.5.3 (/Places) starting sync with sync.foxmarks.com ------
[2008-10-28 12:23:27] >>> POST http://sync.foxmarks.com/sync/bookmar...
[2008-10-28 12:23:27] >>> Body is: (disabled)
[2008-10-28 16:45:23] Warning: removeObserver failed.

As I said... Very bizarre. It's almost as if some server were going up and down. ( Delete or Edit)

I should say that I am NOT syncing passwords - only bookmarks. ( Delete or Edit)

My last successful sync from this PC was also on October 16th. ( Delete or Edit)

Doh! I post this, restart Firefox and syncing worked! This is just so weird. The Error Console has:

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.foxmarks.com/css/portal.css
Line: 127
Error: _gat is not defined
Source File: http://www.foxmarks.com/firefox/succe...
Line: 171

I'll keep my fingers crossed that this continues to work. ( Delete or Edit)

Eric,

(Sorry, I was not familiar with commenting under others)

So! You are familiar with Vash! Great series. Sorry it ended without continuation.

I tried turning off password synchronization and turning it back on. That failed.

Then, I tried your suggested method of renaming the password files. That seems to have done the job

I also tried automatic synchronization. I am concerned that my hard drive seems to be constantly working. Is that proper? Would you rather I post this portion and ask that question under a different thread? ( Delete or Edit)

Okay. . .I tried renaming the password-related files. That _did not_ work. Every time I started the browser, Foxmarks ran through the whole list of passwords on the server and passwords on my computer and asked me which I want to keep. After telling Foxmarks at least 6 different times which passwords I want to keep, I realized that something, somewhere was not retaining my choices and turned off Password synchronization. I suspect the problem is on my computer. Perhaps it is the browser. Perhaps it is the Foxmarks add-in. Perhaps it is something else. I do not know. What I do know is that Password Synchronization in Foxmarks has _not_ worked correctly for me even one time! I guess I will give up until whatever is wrong is fixed. ( Delete or Edit)

I'm afraid that this is a temporary solution. At least for me it is. ( Delete or Edit)

My problem wasn't with password sync but bookmark sync. Either way, my issue is somewhat unrelated because I'm using my own Webdav (but it also never ends) ( Delete or Edit)

Eric,

Are you serious? Post what comes up in the Error Console? It constantly adds _numerous_ messages each second. As I mentioned above, my passwords do not seem to be synchronizing between my PC and the Foxmarks server. I ran the console but could not trap any errors from Foxmarks.

James ( Delete or Edit)

Eric,

You must be careful with the words you use and the accusations against Firefox that you make because you give out false information and upset people.

The problems people have with FoxMarks and their complaints about it are not a problem with Firefox's profile. There is no such. The problems are with add-ins and what those add-ins do to the Firefox configuration.

Regarding the Error Console, the majority of errors that fill it are from Web sites that are contained within our tabs. I have tens of tabs open at once--all the time. Lately, because of schoolwork during finals week, I had up to 110 tabs open at once. Each of those Web sites may have JavaScripts running. I find errors in Error Console from CNN.com, MSNBC.com, JPost.com, and many other sites. These are not generated by Firefox or its profile, nor are they caused by any files or configurations in my Firefox profile. They are simply from the JavaScript files used by Web sites.

As for FoxMarks, when I ran it without attempting to synchronize passwords, there were no errors from FoxMarks listed in Error Console. However, after I selected to also synchronize passwords, the following two messages were all that showed up after I told FoxMarks which passwords (located either on the server or my computer) I wanted to use:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error: [Exception... "'This login already exists.' when calling method: [nsILoginManager::addLogin]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foxmarks/content/foxmarks-password.js :: anonymous :: line 390" data: no]
Source File: chrome://foxmarks/content/foxmarks-password.js
Line: 390
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Error: [Exception... "'This login already exists.' when calling method: [nsILoginManager::addLogin]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foxmarks/content/foxmarks-password.js :: anonymous :: line 390" data: no]
Source File: chrome://foxmarks/content/foxmarks-password.js
Line: 393
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since those messages, there has been nothing show up in Error Console from FoxMarks. At the time I write this, FoxMarks has been running the password synchronization for more than one and one-half hours. I will now cancel out of it. ( Delete or Edit)

Foxmarks developers appear to have no clue how to clean up a Firefox password file, or how to resolve this issue. So, Eric comes on here to repeat his tired refrain, "Create a new Firefox profile." This is a workaround and not a solution. Unfortunately, it appears Foxmarks developers have no intention of creating a real solution. This means, because we customers are treated so poorly, eventually enough of us will tire of this treatment and discontinue use of Foxmarks that it will no longer be supported and die. Although there are other tools to perform similar functions, such as Google Toolbar, the original intent of Foxmarks is still the best. ( Delete or Edit)

Did you try re-installing Foxmarks, first? If that does not work, try un-installing and then re-installing Foxmarks. (Warning: Do not delete your information from the Foxmarks servers!) ( Delete or Edit)

I tried: uninstall foxmarks, restart FF, download it again from mozilla, install it, restart FF and then setup screen appears with the same turning icon forever.
I guess that the crash messed up my Firefox profile. The settings of some other extensions disappeared too but at least they were still working. ( Delete or Edit)

Before messing with the FF profile, which could be the problem, I would re-install the latest version of Firefox. Then--if that does not solve the problem--I would rename the existing profile and create a new one. ( Delete or Edit)

The comment above from Eric helped me solve the problem: I deleted from the profile folder the files signons2.txt, signons3.txt, foxmarks-baseline-*.json and foxmarks-password-baseline-*.json. I restarted FF, entered my foxmarks password and voilà, fixed.

Reinstalling FF didn't help BTW.
Thanks all for your help ( Delete or Edit)

And here is my log wit the error - please help!!!

"Expected a folder but got a non-container"

[2009-11-02 06:10:10] MapNative failed with itemId = 189727
[2009-11-02 06:10:10] Caller is function (item, list, depthFirst) {
if (!(item instanceof Ci.nsINavHistoryContainerResultNode)) {
throw Error("Expected a folder but got a non-container");
}
item.containerOpen = true;
var pnid = this.MapNative(item.itemId);
var cnids = [];
for (var i = 0; i < item.childCount; ++i) {
child = item.getChild(i);
var cnid = this.MapNative(child.itemId);
cnids.push(cnid);
if (depthFirst) {
list.splice(i, 0, [child, cnid, pnid]);
} else {
list.push([child, cnid, pnid]);
}
}
return cnids; ( Delete or Edit)

as much as it saddens me to agree, I have to agree with this assessment ( Delete or Edit)