KirstenL4W

When I moved in with Boyfriend, I had to find somewhere to put my desk.  The living room wasn’t an option because his desk was already in there, and the only corner where it made sense to put mine was taken up by a fireplace.  So that left the bedroom, which used to be spacious before I moved in.  Now my desk is crowded in the far corner of the room, without enough room for a proper chair.  I sit on an overturned trash barrel with a pillow on top in lieu of a proper stool.

Since my desk is so out of the way, Boyfriend really doesn’t like it when I spend time on my computer.  He has 2 laptops, one of them a brand spanking new HP Something that runs Vista.  Since the arrival of the HP, I’ve been using that a lot more because it allows me to spend time with Boyfriend - we can both be on the computer yet in the same room together.  It’s been nice, but there are lots of things on my desktop that I still need - all my iTunes, my personal finance software, all my files that I do stuff with - and at this point it’s just going to have to stay that way, because I don’t see us getting a server or even an external hard drive anytime soon.  I prefer to have everything in just one place, anyway, so I’ve kept it all on my desktop.

Since I spend so much time on the laptop, however, I figured it would be wise to try and merge some stuff.  I have zillions of bookmarks on my desktop - not that I use them all regularly, I admit that they could use some cleaning out - but I wanted the bookmarks for my main computer with me on the laptop.  I went online to see what extensions Firefox had, since I had heard they had one that syncs bookmarks.  I downloaded Foxmarks on the desktop and laptop and went about doing my thing, being careful to keep the ones I already had on my desktop as the dominant set.  This is when the trouble began.

When I finished syncing (spellcheck says that is right, I don’t know) them, I had a whole bunch of blank bookmarks on the laptop.  That wasn’t right, so I set about deleting them.  Once that was done, Foxmarks wanted to sync again.  I chose no.  Throughout the day, it kept wanting to sync.  Tired of the popup, I finally clicked yes, thinking that because I had set my desktop bookmarks as the dominant set, it would shut this thing up once and for all.  Boy, was I wrong.  All those blank bookmarks were the folders that I had to organize stuff.  All the bookmarks I previously had in folders were gone.  Now all I have is the miscellany that I had floating at the end, waiting to be organized.  Everything else is gone.  I don’t even remember half of what I had, but it’s all gone.  I know I had clothing stores and shoe stores and all sorts of other stores that I liked to visit.  Some of those I’ll never find again, so no more window shopping for me.

Now that I’m completely fed up with the Great Bookmark Syncing Fiasco, I’ve uninstalled Foxmarks and will never try that again.  Perhaps a site like PortaPortal will be a bit better, or not.  Perhaps I will just keep separate bookmarks on each computer.  I don’t know, I haven’t figured that out yet.  I’m still hurting from losing all my cool bookmarks.

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