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josh_bodner
Silver Contributor
Apr 29, 2020

Dev Channel update to 84.0.495.2 is live

Hello Insiders!  Today we’re releasing build 84.0.495.2 to the Dev Channel.  While there isn’t too much new to talk about this week, we do want to make users of Collections aware of a potential issue...
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ManishGiri
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Apr 30, 2020

josh_bodner 

 

josh_bodner wrote:
  • Some users are seeing favorites get duplicated after we made some previous fixes in that area. The most common way this is triggered is by installing the Stable channel of Edge and then signing into it with an account that has already signed into Edge before.  Fixing this should be easier now that the deduplicator tool is available.  However, we’ve also seen duplication happen when running the deduplicator on multiple machines before either machine has a chance to fully sync its changes, so while we wait for some of the fixes we’ve made to come to Stable, make sure to leave plenty of time in between runs of the deduplicator.  We hope that this will be improved now that version 81 is released to Stable. 

I'm surprised that this is still a "known issue", and there has been no fix for it yet. This is a high priority bug, and it's not just happening for "some users", with people reportedly https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/g5byuw/duplicate_favorites_bug_in_the_latest_version_of/.

Here is how messed up bookmarks are on my devices right now -

People tend to use bookmarks more frequently than the newly introduced "collections", so it's very strange that this issue is being taken so lightly. What's the point of having sync enabled if you can't use it across devices?

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josh_bodner
Silver Contributor
Apr 30, 2020

ManishGiri we continue to make fixes in that area, but it takes a while for them to get down to Stable.  We expect that once the current Beta (version 83) makes it to Stable, it should make a big improvement with regard to both not duplicating as much as well as the changes done by the deduplicator getting synced more quickly.  

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