Cleaning up Safari Bookmarks across devices

Question

I have a MacBook Pro, Ipad2, Ipod5 and Iphone6 and I would like to clean up the Safari bookmarks and reorganize them across all devices. I use FireFox on my MacBook Pro and those are the ones I want to put in the Safari browser on all of my mobile devices as well as the MacBook Pro. I have clicked on Safari to be in the Cloud for all of my devices in settings.
I deleted my MacBook Pro Safari bookmarks and then imported my FireFox bookmarks.
But those bookmarks do not appear when I synced my mobile devices. I don't see any choice during sync to replace Safari bookmarks on the device with those on the MacBook Pro. All of the bookmarks on my mobile browsers remain in place even with a fresh sync.
When I switch off "safari" in Settings-ICloud on the mobile devices all my mobile device bookmarks disappear but the new bookmarks did not appear when I synced with the MacBookPro.
When I switched on the "Safari" Settings-ICloud all my old bookmarks came back, not the nice fresh bookmarks I've put on Safari on my MacBookPro.
Does anyone know how I can get the Safari bookmarks on my MacBook Pro to replace the jumble of Safari bookmarks on my mobile devices.?

Answer 1

If it's a Network issue, then Go to the System Preferences>Network panel
- Location - set up a personal location by clicking on the drop down menu and selecting "add a location". Use a name familiar to you. Once established, select "apply".
- Next, click on the "Show" drop down menu and select Network Port Configurations. Only Airport ought to be checked. Move it to the top of the list (you can drag it). Select "apply".
- Back to the "Show" menu, select "Airport". Click on the TCP panel. There, enter 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 (separate lines) in the DNS servers box and select "apply".
Creating a personal location, plus adding the DNS codes seems to speed things up. Otherwise, the "automatic" function has a tendency to "search" for available locations, hence creating the lag.
Also, remove the other networks from the list by highlighting/clicking the minus button if they are not necessary for your computer's operation or cable connection.
Let me know if you are using an Airport Express or Extreme unit, as there are additional changes you can make to speed up the connection.
Lastly, in the Finder, go to your Utilities folder and select "Terminal". Once the screen is open enter lookupd -flushcache and press return. This clears out the DNS cache. Once done, quit Terminal.