del.icio.us bookmarks refuse to sync

I've just installed Gutsy together with the latest updates as well as the del.icio.us bookmark add-on for firefox.

I noticed that the bookmark synching starts but then hangs. I have a list of bookmark folders in my Firefox del.icio.us menu tab, but no bookmarks. Uninstalling and reinstalling the add-on didn't help.

The solution may lie in one of these two suggestions I found in Ubuntu forums:

1. mv .mozilla old_mozilla

synaptics>reinstall firefox

this deleted all my personal firefox info and let me start from scratch... i can now easily access my bookmarks again

2. Just delete the extensions.* files from your profile directory. Firefox will recreate them when it starts up and then the extension should be working again.

I'll try tonight - in /usr/share/firefox/defaults/profile . Hmm, but what about usr/lib/firefox/extensions and etc/firefox ? Well, there's a file called 'firefox.list' in var/lib/dpkg/info which lists among other files: usr/lib/firefox/extensions - that might be the place to start.

That was sweet timing. I was just seconds away from deleting .mozilla (whatever that is) and reinstalling Firefox, when I looked down and noticed that the bookmark synching was finally happening. There was orange in the progress bar! It's completed successfully now. So, just give it a chance.

mounting a windows drive at bootup

I reinstalled Gutsy today, for a few reasons, not least of which was the fact that I botched GRUB and made both Windows and Ubuntu unbootable. After the reinstallation I formatted a new larger ntfs drive for my documents and windows programs. When I booted back into Ubuntu, I noticed that this drive no longer mounted on bootup. On the other hand, my Dell Utility drive which I had no interest in and certainly didn't want to display on the desktop, did mount automatically on bootup. So I decided to swap the permissions of the two drives.

It was time to edit fstab.

First, I made a backup:
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

then:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

But I couldn't see any difference between the entries for the 2 drives in fstab, so I searched in the forums for an answer, and found it:

"I think you need to edit fstab to match the reformatted and renamed partition. [In a console type this code:]

blkid

I expect that the drive that's missing will have a different UUID in your fstab, Check it out and change it."

That user was absolutely right. Problem solved!