Huge bookmarks.couch filesize

Keith Clark keithclark at waterloosubstop.com
Fri May 13 17:17:03 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 04:41 -0300, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> 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...
> 
Thanks!  Worked perfect for me as well.

Keith






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