Google Chrome bookmark sync keeps overwriting my bookmarks


Ben Scabia

So I recently spent an afternoon rearranging all my bookmarks and then accidentally deleted an important folder (which contained a lot of bookmarks).

I managed to restore it by copying bookmarksand bookmarks.bakfiles , and also kept a copy of the newly organized bookmarks bookmarksand bookmarks.bakfiles so I could restore them later.

After importing my original bookmarks into Firefox (essentially giving me a "copy" of the deleted folder), I tried replacing both bookmark files with the newly organized bookmark files.

However, every time I do this, chrome resyncs and replaces the bookmarks file with the original bookmarks file. I tried disabling sync and that fixed the issue temporarily, but as soon as I turned sync back on, it restored it again.

How can I fix this?

Ben Scabia

Figured it out!

It turns out (as expected) that chrome stores all bookmark data on the server, and then every time you log into a device, Chrome downloads the bookmarks to that device.

The solution to this problem is to reset the server sync data, which can be found here . Then, once reset, close chrome, restore and files, reload chrome, log in and you're done!bookmarkbookmarks.bak

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