How Firefox Sync is synchronizing my bookmarks in my four computers?

Question

I'm running Firefox 4 beta 4 on four computers (a desktop, 2 laptops, and a netbook). I knew that when enabled Firefox Sync, I would need to "weed out" duplicate entries in my bookmarks. I enable Sync on each of the four computers (one at a time). Eventually, I sat down at one of my computers and "cleaned up" my bookmarks. I thought that would be the end of it.
Unfortunately, every time I start Firefox on a different computer, there are duplicate bookmarks and bookmarks out of order.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

What I do in this case is:
Suppose you have 4 computers ok (a notebook, and computers One, Two and Three). Than you travel for a month, using only your notebook. You got your notebook a lot of new bookmarks and passwords. It is too much different from the other 3 computers, then this (I guess) is the cause of firefox-sync (fc) confusion.
When you get home and turn on computer One, hoping sync will do the job, you get a lot of duplicates.
Now, to make it worst, the server also update itself to the duplicated set.
If you don't notice and turn on also computer Two and Three, you have all of them messed up. Your only hope is your local database stored in your notebook. If you lost this also, you must clean it manually.
But if you was clever enogh to stop the bleeding before the notebook (and hopefully before computer Two and Three also, so you just need to correct computer One), all you need to do is:
Step One: The Upload. Correcting the server data!
Using the computer you know is up to date, i.e., the notebook.
1- Turn on your notebook. Wait till the boot and all that little icons are completely loaded, so you have a fast computer to act.
2- Click on the Firefox icon.
3- BEFORE the sync start taking action to mess up also your notebook, go fast to: (Do it all at once, in a single breath! I recommend you practice in some other computer before you try for real)
menu Tools / Sync / Preferences / Manage account / Reset Sync /
-> Replace all other devices with this computer's data / next / Yes!
This will make the data on your notebook to be uploaded to the server, correcting it.
Now Step Two: The Download. Correcting the duplicated computer.
Again you need to be fast, before sync starts to mess up. But now, you will turn on the computer One, the one that has duplicated data.
Do exact the same steps but:
-> Replace all data on this computer with my Sync data
This will download the Sync Server data to your computer, without merging it with the local data. Merging is the problem that creates duplicated data.
Do the Step 2 in all duplicated computers you have. If you are not fast enough and sync merge again, you need to do step one again.
If you are slow in step one, and lose the original data, you need to clean manually.
I hope this helps a lots of people.
I also hope that the developers who read this do one of the two:
1- Tell me I'm doing a lot of work for there is another fast way to solve this problem, or
2- implement another fast way to solve this problem.
Thanks!
Beco