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Syncing of bookmarks/favorites when first installing chromium edge issue.
Hi,
I did try and perform a search for this topic before I posted it, there are similar topic's but I thought I'd post this anyway. It seems as though for some reason if I decide to install a different build/branch of the browser, my favorites get double copied into the newly installed browser. As I remember, other user's have also mentioned that issue..possibly in a somewhat different way. Also, what makes it even more frustrating is the method I have to use to clean up the duplicate entries I don't want, there doesn't seem to be a mass deletion method to do so..at least for me, I have to delete one entry at a time. Has anyone else found this to be true ?
Thanks,
David
Davy49 Yes, RAST-SE is absolutely correct! Doing Ctrl+Shift+O might be the easiest way to manage your Favorites if navigating through icons is less accessible.
Here's a screenshot of multiple options selected in the Favorites manager. (You can then click the blue "delete" button, or the "X" next to an individual entry.)
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Davy49 Thanks for letting us know. What folders are the duplicates in? (There may be up to one copy of each favorite in the ~3 folders, but they shouldn't be duplicated in the same folder.) And have you seen this behavior in Canary or Dev? And if you're still encountering this, can you please submit feedback through the browser?
And as a heads-up, you can multi-select favorites in "about:favorites" to delete multiples at once.Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge- Hi Fawkes,
I'm impressed to have you reply to me..thanks !! I guess I'm having another 'senior' moment, I'm referring to what you stated: " And as a heads-up, you can multi-select favorites in "about:favorites" to delete multiples at once." At this exact moment, I can't remember how to/where it's located.
David- Entering "about:favorites" (or "edge://favorites") in the adress bar is just another way to open the "Manage Favorites" page. I think it's easier to click on the Favorites icon and choose "Manage Favorites". (Pressing Ctrl+Shift+O is another option.)
When you want to select several consecutive Favorites, hold down the Shift key and click on the first and last Favorite. If you want to select or deselect an individual Favorite, hold down the Ctrl key and click on current Favorit. (You have to click on either the icon to the left of the link in each Favorite or in the area to the right of the link, otherwise you will open the corresponding page!)
/Gunnar in Sweden
- Oh and btw, use this extension to automatically detect and delete duplicated items in your favorites/bookmarks, works on all chromium based browsers including Edge.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmarks-clean-up/oncbjlgldmiagjophlhobkogeladjijlHiHotCakeX ,
On my desktop I'm still running the development version of edge, on my laptop I also had the same version but then I decided to try out the stable version. That's when I noticed the duplication of the bookmark's, by the way the extension that you offered is great..thanks so much !
David
- You're welcome, oh so probably the duplication prevention was only applied to Dev and Canary, not the stable..
- Hi,
can you exactly mention the order of Edge channels that you installed that resulted in that issue?
it's true there are topics about the same subject already but they are old. recently Microsoft improved Favorites syncing and added abilities that should prevent duplication, it's not 100% accurate but it should be better compared to say 2 months ago.
in my experience, I had Canary channel for months on my system, then when stable version released i installed it on my machine. my favorites started syncing with stable build soon and i had no duplication. after 1 week, i installed Edge dev and it also started syncing my favorites and still no duplication.
that's why I'm curious the order of your installations.
