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Firefox restoring unwanted deleted bookmarks when synced

firedog194859
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Whenever I sync, Firefox restores bookmarks that I have deleted in the past. I only want to keep all my devices synced with my main Firefox app on my computer. Is there any way to avoid this problem?

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Whenever I sync, Firefox restores bookmarks that I have deleted in the past. I only want to keep all my devices synced with my main Firefox app on my computer. Is there any way to avoid this problem? Thanks

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cor-el
cor-el
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Were those bookmarks originally coming from this device ?

There is no master for Sync and bookmarks from each connected device is synced to all other devices, so all devices have the same bookmarks.

firedog194859
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Thanks for your response!

Here's what I did:

Went through all of my bookmarks deleting the ones that I didn't want or no longer needed. Backed up my bookmarks at this point. I then synced my bookmarks (from my main computer) with my laptop.

All of the deleted bookmarks were back on both devices. I had to delete all of my bookmarks and then restore the backup in order to get back to where I started (after the culling process). It would seem that my bookmarks are being stored in the cloud and when I sync, any that have been deleted are restored from the cloud file.

What I was hoping to do was simply to place a copy of my bookmarks from my main computer onto both my laptop and my cell phone. This didn't happen; instead, I got all bookmarks including the deleted ones back again.

Any ideas?