Comments on: Fix-It: iPhone Bookmark Sync errors

By: caro

caro — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:09:21 +0000

can you help me with this? i have the version 2.1 and have this problem with the sync of bookmarks

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:25:28 +0000

hi,

I’m having the same problem. I tried the terminal commands and it got me as far as the chmod 0777 Bookmarks.plist. When I type that in it says “chmod: Bookmarks.plist: Operation not permitted.” I’m not really sure what to do Any tips? I also tried tried the SSH way and used Winscp to open it but I dont see Safari in the Library folder. Can someone help me. And just in case anyone knows, how do you load ebooks onto the iphone using books.app? Thanks

By: beash

beash — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:56:17 +0000

if it says “chmod permoitted” - you can open your phone with finder (on mac. you also need AFPd installed on your iPhone) just copy & paste Bookmarks.plist or any other, so you get “Bookmarks.plist copy” with chmod 777. Delete original file, rename new to “Bookmarks.plist” and that’s it. Probably you need to do this to whole Bookmarks folder, o just copy/paste, delete old and rename new…

This solved my problem with canceled Mail sync and its shutting down.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:53:41 +0000

Please note that it should say:
‘cd /private/var/mobile/Library/Safari/’
There’s a slash missing in front of Matthew’s line. For the lazy folks, just type reboot after chmodding the .plist file to have your iPhone restarted.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:11:34 +0000

I just realized that this is probably the cause of another issue I had involving cookies not saving.
My solution for the cookie issue was to do a restore (I seem to be a bit trigger happy with the restores) and then before re-jailbreaking, going to a website that set a cookie. Followed by a jailbreak with ZiPhone. This method also worked a mail not sending issue and a problem with Youtube.
I suppose that if the cookies problem happens again I will just try your method. Unfortunatly I have no clue where to go for the mail problem.

PS:
the file for the cookies is in
/var/mobile/Library/Cookies/

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:49:38 +0000

Was that all that is wrong!?!?
This problem had forced me two do 2 full restores.
And now I know that I could have done it in only 4 terminal commands. Man this makes me ANGRY.

Although now that I’ve fixed it I do wonder, what had the permissions been set to?

By: erin

erin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:11:08 +0000

Worked like a charm, thanks!

By: iown

iown — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:14:17 +0000

if you can’t be bothered to mess around with SSH or terminal just download mobile finder from installer and edit the file through there. Works an absolute treat.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:36:36 +0000

I got it to work. There was one small thing I wasn’t putting in when I was trying to switch to the correct directory in terminal. The correct path to the directory is as follows:

“cd private/var/mobile/Library/Safari/”

At least on my phone. The instructions you left me above where perfect, but they only worked when I put “private” before /var/mobile/Library/Safari/

Thanks for your help!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:18:53 +0000

I’ve tried exactly what you just posted, but it says no such directory exists…