Hello, volunteers! Thanks for being here. I'm having trouble migrating bookmarks from one Mac Air to another, and it comes down to Sync not working.
I have two Mac Airs… (閱讀更多)
Hello, volunteers! Thanks for being here. I'm having trouble migrating bookmarks from one Mac Air to another, and it comes down to Sync not working.
I have two Mac Airs, both 2020. Both are up to date. Let's call them My Mac and Work Mac. Work Mac's syncing starts, then stops immediately.
My problem is more than a week old. The latest version of Clean My Mac offered a new process of clearing out old security history. It's all on me; I didn't really look into it before I clicked the process.
All my login items and passwords disappeared from Firefox. Damn!
I thought it would be a fairly easy fix. "My Mac" and my Android both had the missing info. On the Work Mac, I went into Settings -> Sync, and clicked Sync Now. It very briefly tried to connect - and I mean, less than a second - then Sync Now went solid again. Repeated several times. Syncing just wouldn't start.
I looked at the error logs and in fact Sync hadn't worked for a month or so. I just hadn't noticed.
I tried a few fixes suggested in the forums, but nothing was truly applicable to my specific problem. Finally, frustrated, I removed and reinstalled Firefox on my Work Mac. My logins came back immediately. But the Bookmarks Toolbar is empty, except for the option to "Import Bookmarks". unless I open them from the Firefox -> Manage Bookmarks. There they are - it even says they're in the toolbar. But they're not.
And Sync still doesn't work! Same symptoms: click, attempt to connect, fail.
So my problems are twofold:
- How do I get my bookmarks back into the toolbar where they belong?
- How do I get syncing to work again?
The error report on each failed effort to sync is over 1000 lines long. I'll add one in a series of posts here.