I’ve a 2018 MacBook Air operating the newest non-beta Catalina (10.15.3 as of this writing).
For so long as I can keep in mind, I’ve used Safari’s bookmark syncing through iCloud, and it has labored very nicely. One would possibly even say flawlessly.
Final weekend I made a decision that I had amassed too many bookmarks that I used to be by no means going to make use of which was making it laborious to search out what I needed, so I made a decision to “clear home” — I exported my bookmarks from Safari and deleted every part besides one folder named “Boards” which I exploit usually.
I logged in to my Macs and iOS gadgets to guarantee that all of them had the identical one folder left. I believe I may need needed to manually delete them once more on one or two gadgets, actually I don’t keep in mind as a result of I didn’t notice this was going to turn out to be A Factor.
So now have:
- one MacBook Air operating Catalina
- one Mac Mini operating Mojave
- one Mac Mini operating Excessive Sierra
- one iPad
- one iPhone
The bookmarks on the MacBook Air are working effective domestically.
Nonetheless, every part else is damaged.
Adjustments made on different gadgets will sync to different gadgets, however do NOT sync to the MacBook Air.
All the different gadgets (besides the Air) hold getting duplicates of that “Boards” folder. I simply deleted a couple of dozen of them. At the same time as I used to be deleting them, extra appeared.
I attempted deleting a bookmark on one of many non-MacBook Airs, and never solely did it not sync to the Air, however extra duplicates re-appeared.
As soon as the duplicates stopped taking place, future adjustments sync between all the gadgets besides the Air appear to occur nearly concurrently, even for the Mac mini which is co-located throughout the USA.
I logged out of iCloud fully on the MacBook Air. I rebooted my MacBook Air. I logged again in to iCloud on the MacBook Air.
The very same drawback is going on.
The MBAir isn’t getting adjustments from different Macs, though it’s on the identical Wi-Fi community with a number of different gadgets that are syncing completely nicely.
Making adjustments on the MBAir causes extra duplicates on the opposite gadgets.
At this level it looks like this have to be a Catalina subject. Then I remembered my 2015 MacBook was operating Catalina too, so I booted it up.
It’s syncing identical to all the different non-MBAir gadgets.
So it’s not Catalina. It’s one thing about Catalina on this account.
I attempted logging into iCloud.com to see if I might delete my Safari bookmarks from there (“The reality is within the cloud”) however there isn’t a choice to try this. The one choice is to revive deleted bookmarks from the earlier 30 days.
I’m well-and-truly out of concepts. I assume I might create one other native person account on my MBAir and log in to my iCloud account there, however I’m undecided what that might actually accomplish something significant. If it labored—then what would I do subsequent?
Any concepts welcomed and appreciated.
Edited so as to add: Unsure if that is essential or associated, however I am additionally having issues with the Residence.app on my MacBook Air not syncing correctly with different HomeKit gadgets.
I should not have any outgoing firewall software program put in like Little Snitch or Journey Mode.
Edit 2: I did a Secure Boot to get rid of any potential software program points with iCloud, and it had no impact.
Edit 3: Discovering no good solutions for this anyplace, I logged in to my backup Administrator account, deleted my common account, after which re-created it. Safari bookmarks are syncing once more.
I did discover some messages within the Console log concerning the SafariBookmarksSyncAgent however googling the error message and/or SafariBookmarksSyncAgent itself didn’t flip up any useful info.
