sync fails since upgrade of Floccus to 4.4.1

[kai-uwe-rommel]

Describe the bug
Since I upgraded our Nextcloud server to from 18.0.7 to 19.0.4 the floccus sync fails.

To Reproduce
See above.

Expected behavior
Should work.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 81.0.2
• Floccus version: 4.4.1
• Floccus sync method: nextcloud folders

Server (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS
• Nextcloud version: 19.0.4
• Bookmarks app version:

Debug log
Will provide when useful.

Additional context
Want to now if this is a known issue or new.

[spiezmaestro]

I have the same issue. I think I just upgraded my Firefox addon to version 4.4.1 in firefox 82.0 before this started happening. Nothing was changed on my nextcloud backend.

[kai-uwe-rommel]

Difficult to tell for me ... I noticed the problem today and the Nextcloud update to 19 was yesterday ... hence my assumption.
I did not notice the update of the Floccus plugin in my Firefox because that happens in the background.
But I just checked and in Firefox's addon list it says that Floccus was updated today to 4.4.1.
So it could as well be the update of Floccus that causes the problem.

[kai-uwe-rommel]

Hmm, sync still works in Chrome ... its Floccus addon is at 4.3.0.

[stelas]

Same "No bookmarks found for the provided GUID." error here with FF 81.0 and Nextcloud 20 after update from 4.3.0 to 4.4.1... :(

[marcelklehr]

Hmm, sync still works in Chrome ... its Floccus addon is at 4.3.0.

It was a partial roll-out.

No bookmarks found for the provided GUID.

This sounds like #690

Can you try wiping your server bookmarks and triggering a sync from scratch in the "dangerous" section of the account settings?

[spiezmaestro]

I guess that means that my tags will be gone (wiping server bookmarks) and can't find an option to mass assign tags again. Have a lot of them. Any ideas?

[marcelklehr]

Any ideas?

Backups :S 😢

Or you can try to sync from scratch without wiping. No guarantee this will work, though. You will have to sort out the duplicates yourself.

[spiezmaestro]

When I export the bookmarks, will the tags also be in that export? Could I export, delete, sync from scratch, import (to keep the tags) or will this screw up the sync again?

[marcelklehr]

When I export the bookmarks, will the tags also be in that export?

Yes.

Could I export, delete, sync from scratch, import (to keep the tags) or will this screw up the sync again?

I think: Export (to have a backup), keep everything on the server as is, sync from scratch (will possibly create more duplicates), clean up duplicates manually. This should keep your tags. As long as one bookmark with the same URL exists that has the tags, they won't be gone.

[spiezmaestro]

OK, did as you suggested an worked like a charm. The first sync after choosing "sync from scratch" did not take that long (couple of seconds). No duplicates created on the server side. It appeared to me, that the addon saw everything was already in sync. So far so good.

Added a new bookmark to see how that behaves --> sync without issues
Deleted this dummy bookmark in browser --> sync ok, bookmark deleted on server
Added a new dummy bookmark --> sync without issues
Deleted this new dummy on server -_> sync also ok.

Seems ok to me. Thanks!

[kai-uwe-rommel]

A full sync "from scratch" has helped in my case, too.
But I guess you will need to fix that so that not every user will have to do this after upgrading to 4.4.1.