Excluding a folder with Foxmarks can't be done via the add-on alone. You need to set the add-on up to use a profile that's stored on the server (by default there is "no profile" selected, but it still works fine that way). On the foxmarks website, you need to exclude the Fast Dial folder. That folder can only be excluded from the website, you can't choose what to sync from the add-on itself.

I'm not entirely sure this will solve all the issues between the 2 add-ons yet. I'm still in testing.

@dagwud

Thanks for your most helpful post

@chiaroscuro: No, it is not possible to have a folder with a single name be different on two computers.

Shame

For example, when I unchecked "Fast Dial" from the sync profile I use at work, Foxmarks didn't ignore the folder. It deleted it.

Wow !
This is most helpful to know.
Have you considered approaching the FM developers to modify this behaviour.
It would be most helpful in this case.

Changing the "Name" variable in utils.js results in Fast Dial using a different folder of bookmarks. For example, after changing the variable to "Fast Dialer" and opening Firefox, my start page was then named "Fast Dialer" and it was looking for a "Fast Dialer" folder of bookmarks.

Interesting
Maybe it would be useful if one had the option to modify the name of Fast Dial folder in Bookmarks from within Fast Dial
I have asked telega to look at this thread, maybe he will come up with a workaround.

@chiaroscuro: Glad to be of service.

Further information: One can set individual bookmarks to be excluded from a profile. However, you can only do this to folders and bookmarks at the "top level" of the bookmark list. Anything that's within a folder is beyond your control.

Dangit.

The following may also be a work-around to this issue. Use at your own risk for reasons to be explained below.

1. Install Foxmarks and set it up with your account.
2. Sync your bookmarks with Foxmarks
3. Install Fast Dial
4. Add a site to the Fast Dial page, but only one.
5. Sync your bookmarks with Foxmarks
6. Set the Foxmarks sync profile for for the computer to exclude the Fast Dial folder of bookmarks
7. Sync your bookmarks with Foxmarks
8. The Fast Dial folder should be gone from your bookmarks.
9. Now add your sites to Fast Dial and set your preferences like you want them.
10. The Fast Dial folder should be created again, and all your new bookmarks should appear inside it.

I stumbled across this behavior. If you set a folder to be excluded from a Foxmarks sync profile and then recreate the folder, Foxmarks creates two folders on their server, both with the same name but different contents. And it seems to view them as separate folders, without cross-pollination of bookmarks.

What I do not yet know is if having two folders with the same name becomes problematic. I'll play with it for a few days and report. I would hope that it doesn't cause problems or corrupt files, but you never know. Repeated syncing may reveal something that I'm not seeing immediately.

Heya!

I use Firefox with Fast Dial and Foxmarks, and had the same problem. i played around with it today and i fixed the problem by creating 3 profiles for foxmarks, which exclude the Fast Dial Folders (note: one folder "Fast Dial" per PC!) so one profile per PC which exclude the other PC's two Fast Dial folders....pretty confusing eh? :-P

anyways it works for me now, but it would be great if one could tell fast dial into which directory to put the data ;-)

Greetz
Leopard2A5