Huge bookmarks.couch filesize

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:40 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 05:13 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
>> My ~/.local/share/desktop-couch/bookmarks.couch file is huge.  32 GB
>> huge.  Is this file necessary and why is it so big?
>
> Don't know, don't use it. But you might find something here:
> <https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=bookmarks.couch&field.actions.search=Search>
>
>
> Maybe:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/bindwood/+bug/443121>
> [start around commend #43]

Probably bug 443121 as NoOp noted. Checked mine and found a 100 Mb
file, too much for my neat Kb bookmarks.

Since this is probably due to a (old?) bug in Ubuntu-One (I've been
trying hard to use it from the beginning), I completely removed the
xul-ext-bindwood package (or the correspondent add-on on Firefox),
disconnected my desktop from Ubuntu-One cloud, closed Firefox and
Evolution and deleted my huge bookmarks.couch file (but incredibily
small compared to yours - my whole /home partition is just a fraction
of your file). After restarting (to check if Natty was behaving the
same way) and setting bookmarks sync-ing again, I got another
bookmarks.couch file, this time only 76 Kb and everything else was
still working. But the way, decided to keep my bookmarks unsync-ed for
a while...


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