(Apparently) endless bookmarks backup

[rolfp]

I'll guess "bug", as it seems this behavior could have unwanted side-effects:

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[rolf@localhost ~]$ ll .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks*
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 720896 2009-12-07 08:38 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-1.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 466944 2009-12-07 12:07 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-2.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 762285 2009-12-09 07:57 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-3.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 159744 2009-12-10 09:26 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-4.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 675840 2009-12-11 03:33 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-5.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 764144 2009-12-11 09:27 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-6.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 724992 2009-12-11 16:57 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-7.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 768434 2009-12-14 00:00 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks-8.html
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 768434 2009-12-14 06:27 .mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarks.html

I noticed there is a frequent backup of my bookmarks.html file, which is large. Although there's space for it, atm, I don't see the need, if it is, indeed, open-ended. Wonder if anyone groks this?

[therube]

Permissions issue?
Maybe change from -rw--------- to -rw-rw---- or something like that.

[rolfp]

There isn't a new one, yet. I doubt permissions is the cause; there are a lot of files in my profile with the same permissions but, if another one shows up, I'll try adding an r for all, another common permission for files in my profile.

Edit: This was actually Posted December 14th, 2009 but I seen now, that "Bump topic" refreshes the post date, also, which I don't like, so I won't do that again!

[rolfp]

So, I see this cool "Bump topic" link and here we are. The thing is, I just took a look at my profile folder and there were 177 bookmarks-??? files, totaling about 39,642K of space. Got here doing a google search for clues. Hoping a new generation of mozillazine seamonkey users might have seen something like this.

[vazhavandan]

So, I see this cool "Bump topic" link and here we are. The thing is, I just took a look at my profile folder and there were 177 bookmarks-??? files, totaling about 39,642K of space. Got here doing a google search for clues. Hoping a new generation of mozillazine seamonkey users might have seen something like this.

change browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML to false in about:config
set browser.bookmarks.max_backups to appropriate value

[rolfp]

Thanks, I've got autoExportHTML to true for portability strategy, easily transferring to another machine, but I could probably eliminate it. 40M on the ssd gets to be a little precious. max_backups is set to 2. Possibly related, inasmuch as I gather bookmarks.html is deprecated, I have the following

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$ ll /moz/.mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarkbackups/
total 1281
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 1308885 Aug 28 10:15 bookmarks-2013-08-28.json
-rw------- 1 rolf adm        0 Aug 29 05:00 bookmarks-2013-08-29-1.json
-rw------- 1 rolf adm        0 Aug 29 05:00 bookmarks-2013-08-29.json

Doesn't seem to be working right.

[vazhavandan]

Thanks, I've got autoExportHTML to true for portability strategy, easily transferring to another machine, but I could probably eliminate it. 40M on the ssd gets to be a little precious. max_backups is set to 2. Possibly related, inasmuch as I gather bookmarks.html is deprecated, I have the following

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$ ll /moz/.mozilla/seamonkey/w1o08opq.default/bookmarkbackups/
total 1281
-rw------- 1 rolf rolf 1308885 Aug 28 10:15 bookmarks-2013-08-28.json
-rw------- 1 rolf adm        0 Aug 29 05:00 bookmarks-2013-08-29-1.json
-rw------- 1 rolf adm        0 Aug 29 05:00 bookmarks-2013-08-29.json

Doesn't seem to be working right.

Whenever you want to export to html . Go to bookmark manager and choose tools ==>Export html

[rolfp]

Yeah, that sounds like a good plan, thanks.