Awesome, thanks for the update. I think have a couple of users in this situation too, so I'm glad to hear there's a fix coming.
Colin Erik Kay wrote: > Hey Colin, > > Thanks for the reporting this. I chatted with some other team members > about this and one of them tracked down the bug that causes this > (thanks sky!). The current belief is that this should only affect a > small number of users (ones that ran the latest code against an old > profile created during a small window of time on the dev channel), but > the fix should repair the damaged data. > > Erik > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Colin Bleckner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think this is the right file, I pulled it from >> C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Bookmarks: >> >> The "Googs" bookmark is the one I made yesterday (it has a valid id). >> >> { >> "checksum": "f0d9f7dbdc6c35765ece2879878d19ed", >> "roots": { >> "bookmark_bar": { >> "children": [ { >> "date_added": "12864855784840114", >> "id": "0", >> "name": "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters", >> "type": "url", >> "url": "http://slashdot.org/"; >> }, { >> "date_added": "12899260451774200", >> "id": "3", >> "name": "Googs", >> "type": "url", >> "url": "http://www.google.com/"; >> } ], >> "date_added": "0", >> "date_modified": "12899260451774200", >> "id": "0", >> "name": "Bookmarks bar", >> "type": "folder" >> }, >> "other": { >> "children": [ { >> "children": [ { >> "date_added": "12864855666376114", >> "id": "0", >> "name": "my.foxmarks.com", >> "type": "url", >> "url": "http://my.foxmarks.com/"; >> } ], >> "date_added": "12864855682500114", >> "date_modified": "12864855784840114", >> "id": "0", >> "name": "New folder", >> "type": "folder" >> } ], >> "date_added": "0", >> "date_modified": "0", >> "id": "0", >> "name": "Other bookmarks", >> "type": "folder" >> } >> }, >> "version": 1 >> } >> >> Erik Kay wrote: >> >> That's pretty troubling. Could you look at the Bookmarks JSON file in >> your profile directory and see if the "id" value is set on these >> entries? >> >> Erik >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Colin Bleckner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Here's something odd I just ran in to. I started up a computer that I >> hadn't used in a month or so, updated Chrome (running on the developer >> branch), and started testing my extension. I was running into a whole >> slew of problems and eventually discovered that all of the bookmarks >> returned from chrome.bookmarks.getTree() had a bookmark id of 0! >> >> I'm pretty sure that the last time I ran Chrome on that machine was >> before bookmark ids became persistent, so my hunch is that it has >> something to with old, old bookmarks getting updated to the latest >> version of Chrome. Newly created bookmarks get a new (non-0) id just >> fine, so things seem to be working correctly (and it's probably not a >> huge deal going forward). However, the root folder, Bookmarks bar and >> Other bookmarks folder are all still stuck at 0. Any ideas about how I >> might get Chrome to reset these? >> >> Colin >> >> >> >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
