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Brass Contributor

Sep 06, 2019

Edge Dev Bookmark Sync change detection

I still see the duplication of bookmarks and bookmark folders. Obviously the sync is not able to detect which changes are newer, and obviously it's not able to filter equivalent entries. I constantl...

Vla Dunev

Brass Contributor

Sep 07, 2019

Further testing:

1. Went into my account and deleted a couple of defunct sync devices, bringing the total count from 10 to 6.

2. Logged out and back in Edge on Machines 1 to 3.

3. Deleted again all bookmarks (intentionally leaving only 2 so that we don't trigger some "no bookmarks found" recovery logic) - sync worked correctly and promptly. Good!

4. Imported bookmark backup from file - again sync was very fast, and correct so far.

As a side note, we talk Edge Windows + Edge Mac combination. Impressive.

So under lab conditions everything works. I'm quite certain that in a couple of days all bookmarks will be messed again, but let's see.

Vla Dunev

Brass Contributor

Sep 07, 2019

I would speculate that the problems with sync arouse because Chromium/Google constantly touches some of the bookmarks, thus messing their timestamps/IDs/whatever.

So I would guess the problem might not be with MS sync logic, but rather with Google's lax way with other people's data.

P.S. As you can see I'm VERY biased, but one of the reasons I love Edge Dev is that it gives us google-compatible (notice I did not say 'standards compatible'!) engine complete with MS data protection (honestly, I would trust MS over Google any day).