{"id":7953,"date":"2013-09-24T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2013-09-24T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:58:34","slug":"icloud-bookmark-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/icloud-bookmark-syncing\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Bookmark Syncing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/blog\/2013\/20130924_1-Apple-iCloud-frustrations.html\">Lloyd Chambers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/macperformanceguide.com\/blog\/2013\/20130924_1-Apple-iCloud-frustrations.html\"><p>So I figure: &ldquo;let me go to iCloud.com and look for a Safari bookmarks thing,  delete the hairball mess and <em>then<\/em> maybe it will work?&rdquo; But there is no such management tool anywhere I can find anywhere in iCloud.<\/p>\n<p>On another computer, I deleted all bookmarks, thinking maybe if I merged I&rsquo;d get a snapshot of the hairball. I then did <strong>Merge<\/strong> several times with nothing showing up&mdash;zero bookmarks.  So apparently one gets hairball or nothing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem is that there is nowhere where you can reset or replace the truth. You are always interacting with iCloud from a distance, with latency.<\/p>\n<p>I had relatively few problems with iCloud bookmark syncing until last week. I did an <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht2110\">Erase All Content and Settings<\/a> on my iPad, then set it up using someone else&rsquo;s Apple ID. I was then surprised to find that Safari contained  some (but not all) of <em>my<\/em> bookmarks. Fortunately, when I deleted them they stayed deleted, and the deletion did not propagate to my other devices.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Chambers: So I figure: &ldquo;let me go to iCloud.com and look for a Safari bookmarks thing, delete the hairball mess and then maybe it will work?&rdquo; But there is no such management tool anywhere I can find anywhere in iCloud. On another computer, I deleted all bookmarks, thinking maybe if I merged I&rsquo;d get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[627,131,35,16,31,30,103,269],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bookmarks","tag-bug","tag-cloud","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-safari","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}