Bug Resolved: Del.icio.us back to being delicious with Flock, but you have to help it

We have concluded our investigation of the bug where when starting Flock all your favorites were gone. This was del.icio.us specific, and the bug was not in the Flock browser. There are no negative effects to your favorites on del.icio.us. Unfortunately, the nature of this del.icio.us service bug, requires your manual correction.

Manual Correction

  1. Shutdown Flock
  2. Go into your profile folder
  3. Delete files: flock_fq_default_in.rdf and flock_fq_default_out.rdf
  4. Restart Flock

Additional Details

Thanks to the help of the community, we were quickly able to narrow down the nature of the issue. We were able to reproduce the issue in a debugging environment.

Ian identified the problem was that some of del.icio.us’ servers were telling Flock that you had no favorites. Flock then updated its information to that state.

We provided the information to the Del.icio.us team on Thursday, and they immediately corrected the issue.

Since then Ian has been investigating the consequences to Flock. Fortunately, there was no negative impact to your favorites at del.ico.us . Unfortunately, as above you have to manual correct the condition in Flock.

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This entry was written by Lloyd, posted on March 20, 2006 at 7:34 pm, filed under Flock, Open Source, QA, Testing. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Omar Upegui R.
    Posted March 21, 2006 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

    My problem was that certain web sites would just disappear from the Flock Faves Toolbar after relaunching Flock.

    After I deleted the two files mentioned above, all my web sites in Flock Faves Toolbar have remained there. My problem has been solved. Glad to know the problem was not with Flock’s version 0.5.13.2 as I originally thought.

    My Flock is running like a Swiss watch and I couldn’t be happier. Thank you for your fix tip.

    Regards,

    Omar.-

  2. foolswisdom
    Posted March 21, 2006 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Omar for the help in finding this problem, and for the follow up.

  3. SamStr
    Posted March 23, 2006 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    Great job on the bugfix!

    Good to see flock and del.icio.us working nicely together.

    -Sam
    —
    http://www.wirah.com

One Trackback

  1. By #2919 resolved; the fix is in at FactoryCity on March 21, 2006 at 11:04 am

    [...] Lloyd’s posted a solution to the disappearing favorites bug I reported on last week. Apparently it was a change on del.icio.us’s end that caused the problem. Notes from Lloyd: There are no negative effects to your favorites on del.icio.us. Unfortunately, the nature of this del.icio.us service bug, requires your manual correction. [...]

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