How to make Delicious tag bundle bookmarks reappear on the browser?

June 8, 2011 8:22 PM

Does anyone else have trouble with Delicious bookmarks suddenly disappearing from their tag bundles on the browser? I use a Firefox browser. Though they're still in their proper tag on the Delicious site, the bookmarks will vanish and then reappear on the browser days later, for no apparent reason. Wikis and tech support have proved fruitless. Thanks.
posted by holdenjordahl to Technology (3 answers total)

The Delicious Firefox extension has traditionally been slightly buggy, and it may not be being actively maintained right now, but you can check this slightly old thread for a potential answer: try deleting your local copy of the bookmarks database, which will force a fresh sync of your data from the Delicious servers. Hopefully that'll fix this issue for you for a while.
posted by dreamyshade at 11:16 PM on June 8, 2011

Same problem here. force Sync hasn't even been workign for me. I had to uninstall the add-on, disable version checking, then restart firefox, and reinstall the add-on. It finally sync'd, but only for a week or so and now it's back to not showing any of my non-public bookmarks.

It is being worked on by the AVOS team, who just released a new version, but I think all they did was update the 'supported version' tag...it doesn't technically work any better and there seem to be no new features or anything. I couldn't find a changelog though.
posted by AltReality at 12:23 PM on June 9, 2011

Might this have something to do with Delicious being acquired by / absorbed into AVOS? Their FAQ says that Delicious users will have to opt-in to AVOS to continue accessing bookmarks, that there will be "a period of adjustment" during the transition, and that the switchover is happening this summer.
posted by D.Billy at 9:36 PM on June 9, 2011