607934 - Bookmarks are not completely synced after first sync is finished

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 609398

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[simon.taiko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
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Installed Fennec 4.0b2pre (26.10.2010) on my Desire and connected with my Firefox Sync account (PC: WindowsXP SP3; Firefox 4.0b7). Tried to sync my bookmarks and although the sync was completed after 1 minute, it never completely synced all of my bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Fennec 4.0b2pre
2.Connect Sync
3.Sync
No special setup steps.
Actual Results:  
Part of my bookmarks as well as all of my folders are synced.

Expected Results:  
All bookmarks in all the folders are synced.

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Fennec stops syncing after 50 bookmarks.  The next sync (a few minutes later) will download another 50 bookmarks, and so on until all bookmarks are synced.

I believe this is done to make the browser more usable during initial sync, since the browser runs slowly while downloading a huge number of bookmarks at once.  But we need to change something about this, because it's unclear to users what is happening and why.

Comment 2

[simon.taiko]

Thanks for your information. This leads to an additional problem: as you cannot define the "master" of firefox sync, your computer will sync with now incomplete bookmark repository and a lot of bookmarks are lost (naturally they are backuped).

Comment 3

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for your information. This leads to an additional problem: as you cannot
> define the "master" of firefox sync, your computer will sync with now
> incomplete bookmark repository and a lot of bookmarks are lost (naturally they
> are backuped).

The partial sync will not lose any bookmarks. It will just take a while for the mobile client to get all bookmarks when you have lots of them.

Comment 4

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

Anyway, we're getting rid of partial sync as in bug 609398. Duping this.