How do you delete bookmark data from iCloud servers?

Yeap, iCloud Mail is having a fart time again as of 11/11/11 4:36pm EST! It's NOT WORKING!!!!! APPLE WHAT'S GOING ON? Time to move to Windows???

Make sure you have latest OSX and iOS software on your devices.

I switched of sync on the MBP and cleaned the bookmarks. After that I disables sync on the iPhone and iPad and agreed to delete all bookmarks when I was asked. I checked on the devices in Safari whether all bookmarks were deleted and found a few being still there which I manually deleted.

Then I deleted ALL bookmarks on the iMac and waited until it has synced to iCloud. after that I disabled syncing on the iMAC.

On the MBP with the cleaned bookmarks I enabled syncing again and agreed to merge these bookmarks in iCloud which was flushed by the iMac.

After the MBP had uploaded I enabled syncing on all devices and now all devices show the same bookmarks.

Deleted and added some and all devices still are up-to-date.

Hope this helps someone

Forgot to mention that I had problems syncing bookmarks on an IMac, a MBP an iPhone 4 and an iPad 1.

I bet you still have "Bookmarks Bar" and "Bookmarks Menu" on your iPhone? I don't want to sync those, since there is no Bookmarks Bar" or "Bookmarks Menu" on the iPhone.

No, I don't. I had both of them on the iMac and MBP but deleted them too in the decribed procedure. Yet, they did not re-appear

Done that and still DOES NOT work for me! I wiped out my bookmarks in ALL my devices (iPhone 4, iPad 2, MBP, and iMac). Of course, I made backups of my bookmars prior of wiping it out and proceeded to wait 4 days to make sure iCloud had enough time to clear itself up alright. After seeing that I didn't get no more entries synched to any of my devices I proceeded to restore my bookmarks first to my iMac. Then I waited and yes, a few minutes later it synch correctly into my MBP however, when it came to my iOS devices it came over alright except it came over with dupplicates AGAIN!!!! So, at this point I just went and clean up all those entries from my iPhone and iPad. Luckily they stayed like that and no further dupplicates were created.

Now, because I don't feel iCloud is working correctly, at least for me, with my Safari Bookmarks and Notes, I have left those two apps untoched. But this week I added a new bookmark into a folder from my iPhone 4... well, guess what? The new bookmark after 3 days NEVER showed up in my other devices! Once again, I proceeded to remove that entry from my iPhone 4 and added it from my iPad 2... SAME results. Ok... the frustration continues... I removed the bookmark from my iPad and added it from my iMac and guess what happen next? The new bookmark showed up in my MBP!!!! It didn't show up in the same location as I placed it from my iMac. It showed up at the root top level of my bookmarks... so, a la Microsoft, I proceeded to move it to its appropriate folder as I have it in my iMac. So far, so good. Then I proceeded to check my iPad and iPhone and the new bookmark is NOWHERE to be found!!! Isn't this wonderful how iCloud works!??? I love the fact that it frustrates me and create unncessary work and waste of time and lack of efficiency and effectiveness!

Yesterday I added a new note from my iPhone and guess what happened... the new note never showed up in ANY of my other devices!!!! So, once again, I proceeded to remove that new note and add it from my iPad. A few minutes later... I had multiple duplicates of Notes in my iPad and the new note was nowhere to be found in any of my other devices inspite of the fact I have full iCloud features enabled! So, I then proceeded to clean up the extra duplicate entries from my iPad... and what happened next was just so kewl... ALL, I mean ALL my notes I had in my other devices were WIPED OUT!!!! But now things looks clean and tidy from my iPad!!! Go figure! I waited to see if they will sync to my other devices and NOTHING!

At this point I was so fuming you could fry an egg on my forehead of the frustration! So, I proceeded to wipe--out my notes from my iPad and waited to make sure no more duplcates were going to show-up. I then went to my iMac and from there launched TimeMachine and restore my notes and then created the new note and wala... now it shows OK in ALL my devices! So, the morale of the story for me is... don't enter Bookmarks from my iOS devices. Do it from my Mac machines... at least they'll be (after manually moving the entry from the other machine) in sync and do not add any new notes from any iOS device but to it from my iMac or MBP so that it syncs OK...

Isn't this a wonderful story of how great and amazing iCloud works? Wow... I'm even impress with myself... but I've been close in more than once occassion of using a baseball bat and my devices as a Piñata from the frustration 🙂

Thank you Yassie! Your method fixed my bookmark bar issue!

If you don't want bookmark bar/menu.. simply you just can't sync with safari, so currently I use IE. I made mistake of syncing with safari not knowing about bar/menu issue and thought i was stuck with them permantely.

I simply downloaded "iCloud Control Panel" installed it and have the bookmark the way i want on IE. check on "bookmarks with internet explorer" and apply!

If you see "favorite list" on IE bookmark which is same as "Bookmark bar" on safari, make sure you delete it, icloud will keep trying to push the data that's stored in the server. I had to delete 3x and it was gone for good from the server. Now that's done, uncheck bookmarks with IE on iCloud Control panel (unless you want to keep syncing with PC/Mac). Turn on the iCloud bookmark on your iOS device, you won't see those annoying bar/menu again~

Hope I wasn't too confusing, Yassie Thanks again!

Thanks, Yassie.

It has all worked well for me.

John

Thanks, Yassie.

You saved me a lot of brain power!

Your solution worked well.

Must be senile! Just posted my thanks twice!

John

@ ShinobiX

It took me half a day trying to get rid of Bookmarks Bar & Bookmarks Menu folders on my iPhone. Your solution worked, although I had to quickly deactivate the iCloud Control Panel for Windows after Favourites folder on IE got successfully deleted.

All hail Windows! Wouldn't have worked without it.

Thanks a bunch for your post again...