Syncing failed with Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'filter')

[alfredonodo]

Which version of floccus are you using?

5.4.0

How many bookmarks do you have, roughly?

1000

Are you using other means to sync bookmarks in parallel to floccus?

No

Sync method

WebDAV

Which browser are you using? In case you are using the phone App, specify the Android or iOS version and device please.

LibreWolf 133.0.3-1, Brave nightly 1.75.142

Which version of Nextcloud Bookmarks are you using? (if relevant)

No response

Which version of Nextcloud? (if relevant)

No response

What kind of WebDAV server are you using? (if relevant)

wölkli nextcloud free

Describe the Bug

LibreWolf is able to synchronise to the cloud while Brave as of today no longer synchronises and I get.

2025-01-05T10:13:45.270Z Starting sync process for account 
2025-01-05T10:13:45.275Z onSyncStart: begin
2025-01-05T10:13:46.916Z onSyncStart: completed
2025-01-05T10:13:46.997Z Failed to load pending continuation. Continuing with normal sync
2025-01-05T10:13:46.997Z Using "merge slave" strategy (no cache available)
2025-01-05T10:13:46.997Z Retrieving local tree
2025-01-05T10:13:47.000Z Filtering out unaccepted local bookmarks
2025-01-05T10:13:47.000Z Syncing failed with Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'filter')
2025-01-05T10:13:47.002Z onSyncFail

Expected Behavior

A correct synchronisation that worked well until 1 month ago.

To Reproduce

1. Install LibreWolf, Brave and Floccus
2. Synchronise LibreWolf to the cloud
3. Synchronise the cloud to Brave

Debug log provided

• I have provided a debug log file

[github-actions]

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[marcelklehr]

mmmh, I cannot reproduce this with Brave 1.73.104 (Chromium: 131.0.6778.204 (Official Build)), can you try with Brave non-nightly?

[ThubLives]

My debug log looks pretty much identical, though I'm using Chrome. Apparently it's been failing for 5 months now.

Floccus 5.4.0
Chrome 131.0.6778.206 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[marcelklehr]

Ok, so it's not a Brave issue, then.

[marcelklehr]

@GrantRobertson has the same on Chrome #1823

[marcelklehr]

Do you all happen to have multiple possibly nested profiles in floccus? Possibly with nested sync disabled in some of them?

[GrantRobertson]

Do you all happen to have multiple possibly nested profiles in floccus? Possibly with nested sync disabled in some of them?

I just had the most basic of installs. No special anything. I literally just installed the extension, kept the defaults, and tried to sync all of my bookmarks up to your service.

[marcelklehr]

@GrantRobertson did you export the profile from a different browser and import it to another one where it then didn't work? Which Bookmarks folder did you select to be synced?

[GrantRobertson]

@GrantRobertson did you export the profile from a different browser and import it to another one where it then didn't work? Which Bookmarks folder did you select to be synced?

@marcelklehr Nope. This was literally my first try at using the software. I just selected the root folder of my bookmarks, as suggested in the documentation.

[marcelklehr]

Huh. I'm stumped. I cannot reproduce this. headscratch

There seems to be some inconsistency in your bookmarks somehow.

[GrantRobertson]

Huh. I'm stumped.

@marcelklehr When I chose the root directory, your dialog box showed the name of that folder as "Undefined" or something like that. I am pretty sure that I also tried simply synchronizing the "Bookmarks Bar" folder, but I got the same error, so I switched back to having selected the root.

I do have a gigantic buttload of old bookmarks, going all the way back to when I was using Netscape Navigator, back it the olden times. I just keep importing old bookmarks when I switch to a new browser. However, I have been using Chrome exclusively for over a decade, IIRC. And, one would expect that the import process would have cleaned up any funky bookmark entries from previous browsers.

[marcelklehr]

@GrantRobertson Can you perhaps try creating a new profile and see if it works there? (Not sure how/if that works on chrome)

[GrantRobertson]

@GrantRobertson Can you perhaps try creating a new profile and see if it works there? (Not sure how/if that works on chrome)

I've got other Chrome profiles that I could try it on. But I'm not super inclined, at this point. I need to get breakfast. I may try it later.

If it did work on some other profile, Floccus would still be of little benefit to me, because that would still mean that I would have to clean up and purge my main bookmarks collection before I could synchronize it to my other Chrome profiles. And I am totally not up for that chore today. I have kind of just accepted that I will have to just keep the bookmarks separate for each profile. I created my other Chrome profiles, mostly, just to be able to easily log into a small set of different websites where I have multiple accounts (like Reddit), without needing to constantly log out then back in under different accounts. So, I really only need to have just a few bookmarks for those other Chrome profiles.

Trying Floccus was mostly just the result of me diving a bit too deep down a rabbit hole that I kinda didn't need to go down anyway. You know how that goes.