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title: "What is my iSync doing?"
date: 2003-04-29T16:24:56-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/04/29/isync-bookmarks-huh/
author: Les Orchard
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# What is my iSync doing?

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Umm...  what is iSync doing?  I didn't know that it had anything to do
with my bookmarks.  Lately I've been using bookmarks more since I started
using <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/BookmarkBlogger">BookmarkBlogger</a>.  Nearly every time I try dragging a bookmark into a
toolbar folder, though, I'm rebuffed by this dialog.  What gives?  The bookmarks
don't show up on my PDA, or my calendar.  With what are they being synched?
<br /><br />
I see that <a href="http://birdhouse.org/blog/archives/000810.php" target="_top">Scot Hacker</a> has
discovered the same thing happening to him.  Lots of comments, but still no
answer as to what's up with this.  Hmm.
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                <a href="#comment-221087173" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-04-29T16:37:16">2003-04-29T16:37:16</time></a>
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            <div class="content">It's safe to guess this is a bug - I've gotten it, too, and I never use iSync on this machine. Someone pointed it out on MacOS X-Talk, and it doesn't seem to be isolated... plenty of people see it.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087174" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-04-29T16:47:37">2003-04-29T16:47:37</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I have tried to use iSync, but have generally found it to be very confusing and unreliable, so I've pretty much put it aside.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221087175" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-04-29T17:49:18">2003-04-29T17:49:18</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Mine started doing the same thing as well. Just in the last few days.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221087176" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-04-30T00:56:35">2003-04-30T00:56:35</time></a>
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            <div class="content">yup- happens to me when I drag a link to my bookmark folder.  bug. but what do you expect- safari is in beta and iSync...I think that is still in alpha (just kidding, but it oughta be called an alpha release...it is as useful as a garden gnome.</div>
            
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