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Possible trick for syncing Firefox bookmarks via iDisk
In the grand
quest for methods of syncing Firefox bookmarks between machines (a la .Mac syncing of Safari bookmarks), a friend of
mine passed along a tip he found at a friend's blog. The tip involves
creating a user.js file in your Firefox profile directory, then creating a Firefox folder in your iDisk/Documents
directory. The tip is simple enough, but there's just one catch: I can't get it to work yet, so I thought I'd post it
to see if any of you enterprising TUAW readers will have better luck.Playing with this tip inspired me to try a trick of my own which didn't seem to work either: placing Firefox's bookmarks.bak and bookmarks.html files in my iDisk, and then simply point at those files with aliases from within Firefox's profile directory. Again, no luck. While I don't necessarily mean to be posting tips that don't work, I thought these might be good ideas that could get us somewhere, without the need for installing extra software like Foxmarks. Although, to its credit, Foxmarks does get the job done fairly well; I'm just interested in the possibility of a .Mac Firefox bookmark syncing solution, devoid of extras or plugins.
Anyone get something like this to work?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Arses McGee said 8:17PM on 2-07-2006
How about using symbolic links instead of aliases.
Nothing but the finder is going to understand an alias, but everything should be able to handle symbolic links
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jason said 8:43PM on 2-07-2006
Symlinks may be the answer, but if you could get past your desire to avoid extensions - look at Bookmark Sync, or bmsync se.
I use that, and it's tremendous. I sync to my web server with webdav over https. You could do webdav to your iDisk, or in the bmsync se version, you could do the local file sync option and go to your local copy of your iDisk.
I know, it's not what you asked for, precisely, but if the symlinks don't fly, there you go...
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jason said 8:44PM on 2-07-2006
sorry, forgot the link for bmsync se:
http://www.trasduzione.com/bmsync/
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Kevin said 2:07PM on 2-08-2006
For me, the "grand quest for methods of syncing Firefox bookmarks between machines" is over. Foxmarks!
http://www.foxcloud.com/wiki/Main_Page
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