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Xzavier
Copper Contributor
Nov 08, 2019

[UPDATE: FIXED] Favorites syncing not available in Edge Chromium Canary channel

Everything went well until I found out favorites not syncing between my 2 PCs in the latest one week or two? Curious enough nobody pointed out. It's OK in Dev channel btw.   Update: It worked agai...
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dvdwnd
Brass Contributor
Nov 10, 2019

HotCakeX Great tip! I tried it, got rid of all the duplicates, waited for the changes to propagate, only to see every single one (plus two new ones, I think) reappear. So, sync is doing something, but it isn't helpful, and it doesn't even result in all Edge installs having the same set of duplicated settings.

(Sad trombone.)

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Nov 10, 2019
    I understand, well it's all beta now, so I suggest keep your bookmarks/favorites in a different browser such as Google chrome stable, and don't use Edge browser as your main one, or if you want to use it as your main browser but save all your favorites on Google chrome.
    I do this personally because Edge sync is not working correctly.
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      cjc2112
      Bronze Contributor
      Nov 11, 2019

      HotCakeX My Beta is working correctly, and that's why I'm using it exclusively now.

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        mikegjl
        Copper Contributor
        Jan 03, 2020

        ITS NOT WORKING!!!! I just did the whole uninstall, reinstall, export, import routine on all my devices to make sure its all works (as I've done many times before) and I still get my favorites folders being repeated three times on my android devices. And each instance of the repeated folders have different numbers of bookmarks repeated because there are repeated bookmarks in the different copies of the folders. 

         

        I could fix this problem manually if MS had the decency to tell me how many bookmarks are in each folder on my laptop version which doesn't have the repeating problem. Then I could compare with the android versions of edge that do indicate the number of bookmarks in each folder!

         

        Is there anyone in charge at Microsoft? I've been using the Dev version since April and now I'm totally fed up even though I've provided feedback on this and other issues. This problem has been there for months and is probably the second most important feature (after displaying web pages) and it still doesn't work. I don't want to go back to Google, but I will if MS doesn't release a properly working version by Jan 15 as promised.

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