Archive for December, 2007

Well, like most other people I upgraded my Foxmarks to version 2.0 recently. What a pain in the ass that was. I should actually read the release notes to see why we needed a new version. The biggest change is probably the bookmarks file itself. I see it went from .xml to .json. Hopefully there is a good reason in there to account for all the headaches caused by the upgrade.

I had been using the custom FTP settings and had plenty of trouble getting it to work after the upgrade. This is what I did to make it work. First, set up your custom FTP server address. I could never get Foxmarks to work when I put in the URL to my FTP server. I had to put in the IP address on several different computers and it would finally work. That looked like this:

ftp://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/foxmarks.json

Not sure why Foxmarks is having DNS problems but that seems to be the case. The FTP server answers to the url just like it should. The only thing I can think of that could be causing it is the server is is using 1 ip for different websites and using the host header to forward the traffic properly. If that is the problem, it explains why so many people are having trouble with the custom FTP settings after the upgrade but some say theirs works fine.

The second part is getting the .json file up there. You have to go to a computer with the old bookmarks up to date. Then manually upload that set of bookmarks after you have upgraded Foxmarks. Now you have a .json file on your ftp site. Go to your other computers and configure their Foxmarks settings. Now you can force download the new Foxmarks file.