This seems like a fixable problem, it just needs to merge entries.
It will prompt you to login as part of the extension install, and your full collection will sync down from the server. The correct way to recover (if you get in this half-initialized state) is to uninstall the extension, and reinstall it. However, it will push your new bookmark up to the collection. It should show “0 items to download” during the sync, no matter how many you have on the server side. At this point, it should allow you to login from within the extension (you are no longer authenticated). Do not remove the other traces of the extension in the profile. It should be easy to repro it: have chrome setup with a memex collection, sync’d and authenticated. Things are a lot better now, with the sync feature, but the problem is still there. I keep managing to get multiple histories going, and just like git pull, memex can get in a state where it can’t (or won’t even try) to merge the histories together. Memex uses a log-replay model for the data store. Basically what happened was another split-brain, just like I struggled with when I first started using the product.So my first clean restore included the very latest bookmarks I had made from my disjoint profile. The reason all of my data was recoverable was that even if the extension refuses to sync down, it will still sync up from a mostly empty profile into your full collection on the server side. On the plus side, as far as I can tell, I have restored 100% of the data into one profile, and it is all backed up on the Memex cloud as well as my local machine. Just to close this up, wanted to thank for helping me restore my complete timeline of data! Thank you for your time. Is that not correct? Then I visited my backup screen which reports: When sync came out, I took that to mean that in addition to my local backup server, my data was encrypted and stored by memex as well.
D’OH! Then I noticed I was logged out, and was relieved because I figured either my backup server or the backend sync would save me.ĭouble D’OH! I watched it sync 0 items down from my account (how is that possible?) and 11 items up. I didn’t notice anything was wrong until I tried to search for something and only had 11 items in my collections. Problem is, nothing notified me that I was not logged on to memex.
This may have been an unusual case I took an update when my auth cookie w/memex was timed out? It looks like that is what happened. When I started it up today, several of my extensions needed updating including Memex. I didn’t use my Mac for maybe 5 or 6 days, which is unusual.
I also have to use this non-standard extension upgrade process: GitHub - NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store: Allows adding extensions from chrome web store on ungoogled-chromium. I use ungoogled chromium which seems to get frequent updates.