Floccus: sync fails since upgrade of Floccus to 4.4.1

[kai-uwe-rommel]

Describe the bug
Since I upgraded our Nextcloud server to from 18.0.7 to 19.0.4 the floccus sync fails.

To Reproduce
See above.

Expected behavior
Should work.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 81.0.2
• Floccus version: 4.4.1
• Floccus sync method: nextcloud folders

Server (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS
• Nextcloud version: 19.0.4
• Bookmarks app version:

Debug log
Will provide when useful.

Additional context
Want to now if this is a known issue or new.

[spiezmaestro]

I have the same issue. I think I just upgraded my Firefox addon to version 4.4.1 in firefox 82.0 before this started happening. Nothing was changed on my nextcloud backend.

[kai-uwe-rommel]

Difficult to tell for me ... I noticed the problem today and the Nextcloud update to 19 was yesterday ... hence my assumption.
I did not notice the update of the Floccus plugin in my Firefox because that happens in the background.
But I just checked and in Firefox's addon list it says that Floccus was updated today to 4.4.1.
So it could as well be the update of Floccus that causes the problem.

[kai-uwe-rommel]

Hmm, sync still works in Chrome ... its Floccus addon is at 4.3.0.

[stelas]

Same "No bookmarks found for the provided GUID." error here with FF 81.0 and Nextcloud 20 after update from 4.3.0 to 4.4.1... :(

[marcelklehr]

Hmm, sync still works in Chrome ... its Floccus addon is at 4.3.0.

It was a partial roll-out.

No bookmarks found for the provided GUID.

This sounds like https://github.com/marcelklehr/floccus/issues/690

Can you try wiping your server bookmarks and triggering a sync from scratch in the "dangerous" section of the account settings?

[spiezmaestro]

I guess that means that my tags will be gone (wiping server bookmarks) and can't find an option to mass assign tags again. Have a lot of them. Any ideas?

[marcelklehr]

Any ideas?

Backups :S :cry:

Or you can try to sync from scratch without wiping. No guarantee this will work, though. You will have to sort out the duplicates yourself.

[spiezmaestro]

When I export the bookmarks, will the tags also be in that export? Could I export, delete, sync from scratch, import (to keep the tags) or will this screw up the sync again?

[marcelklehr]

When I export the bookmarks, will the tags also be in that export?

Yes.

Could I export, delete, sync from scratch, import (to keep the tags) or will this screw up the sync again?

I think: Export (to have a backup), keep everything on the server as is, sync from scratch (will possibly create more duplicates), clean up duplicates manually. This should keep your tags. As long as one bookmark with the same URL exists that has the tags, they won't be gone.

[spiezmaestro]

OK, did as you suggested an worked like a charm. The first sync after choosing "sync from scratch" did not take that long (couple of seconds). No duplicates created on the server side. It appeared to me, that the addon saw everything was already in sync. So far so good.

Added a new bookmark to see how that behaves --> sync without issues
Deleted this dummy bookmark in browser --> sync ok, bookmark deleted on server
Added a new dummy bookmark --> sync without issues
Deleted this new dummy on server -_> sync also ok.

Seems ok to me. Thanks!

[kai-uwe-rommel]

A full sync "from scratch" has helped in my case, too.
But I guess you will need to fix that so that not every user will have to do this after upgrading to 4.4.1.

[jcwinkler]

I had exactly the same problem as the original poster (but on Nextcloud 18.04). Wiping all bookmarks on the server and doing a sync from scratch as suggeted by @marcelklehr solved the problem.

[Mr-Rayman]

Exactly the same behavior here after update to 4.4.1 :-(

[mneiger]

Same problem here with since 4.4.1. Restarting from scratch does not seem to help. I works a couple of times, then fails again once a second browser is also syncing.
I will try to rebuild from scratch later.
I'm using webdav sync to nextcloud, not the bookmark app.

[DerDanilo]

Syncing from scratch only worked for the moment. A few hours later the same problem appeared. Currently this issue is only present in FF. Chrome and Chroimum(Edge) did not update the plugin yet.

[marcelklehr]

So, this is still "No Bookmarks found for the provided GUID"? What is your sync strategy (slave, overwrite, merge)? Which sync method (nextcloud-folders, webdav)? Are you syncing the root folder?

[marcelklehr]

If you're up for a bit of debugging:

Firefox

• Go to about:debugging
• click on debug button next to floccus entry
• trigger a sync by clicking on sync now for the account of your choice.
• go back to the inspector window and copy the logs after waiting for the sync to finish

Chrome

• Go to chrome://extensions
• enable Developer mode
• click on dist/html/background.html button in floccus' entry next to "Inspect views: "
• trigger a sync by clicking on sync now for the account of your choice
• go back to the inspector window and copy the logs after waiting for the sync to finish

[banjonerd]

I'm also unable to sync since the upgrade to 4.4.1. I'm on firefox 81.0.1 on Linux. I get the following error:
E019: HTTP status 403. Failed PUT request. Check your server configuration and log.
My configuration looks okay and I'm still able to sync on Chromium using 4.3.

[marcelklehr]

@banjonerd see #699

[DerDanilo]

So, this is still "No Bookmarks found for the provided GUID"? What is your sync strategy (slave, overwrite, merge)? Which sync method (nextcloud-folders, webdav)? Are you syncing the root folder?

Usually it's merge between all my browsers on multiple devices. I am only using one device at a time. All Browsers have different sync schedules to not block each other while syncing.

WebDAV
Firefox 81.0.1
Chrome Version 86.0.4240.111

With the old version of floccus, it just syncs fine.

[marcelklehr]

In meantime there's a new patch out. Here's hoping this solved your problems as well :pray:

[junpet]

@marcelklehr I reinstallad both Floccus and NC Bookmarks and I use it for some days, looks all good. Thanks your hard work! I think you can close it.

Have a nice day! 🌞