First off, the Google browser sync tool for firefox is awesome. No more tracking down bookmarks on multiple machines. It *DID* however scramble a set of my bookmarks. I think the solution is to delete your profile from the machine that scrambles your bookmarks and start over. The instance of firefox that I had that was scrambling my bookmarks had been upgraded from Firefox pre 1.0. I think there was something stale in the profile.

A little more detail: . I joined two new machines to the Google browser sync. Everything was good. I imported my Safari bookmarks into one of the machines. The bookmarks propagated and all was VERY VERY GOOD! Then I joined one of my older machines that I had upgraded since probably Firefox 0.7. I was trying to integrate those bookmarks. That completely trashed my bookmarks. So I restored them from a backup and reoganized them. Then, once I connected that upgraded machine, the bookmarks were trashed once again. Since the only thing different about that machine was that it was older, I deleted the profile on the upgraded machine, restored the bookmarks again, and ALL was good.

Something handy to note is that inside your profile firefox keeps a backup of your bookmarks and keeps a few days of archives of your bookmarks. So all is not lost for sure.

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