This problem started a few days ago for no apparent reason (no change to the system). I usually use Chrome and it started sort of duplicated my bookmarks, not an exact duplication but the bookmarks appeared in different places in the folder structure. If I delete the duplicate they reappeared after a few seconds. I tried tuning off bookmark synchronisation but that didn't help. So I exported the bookmarks after deleing the duplicates and before the duplication and imported this (and other settings) into Edge, but that started doing exactly the same, duplicating the bookmarks/favourites. The problem appeared on a Windows 10 PC but the duplicates are also in Chrome on my iPhone and iPad. I'm up-to-date on updates on all devices. How can I stop the duplication process?
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For Windows 10, Chromium Edge, Chrome and Windows settings, machines can be set to sync settings, bookmarks and other things.
I generally (for myself) did not find this really useful but some people do. So I turned these settings off. Nice that we can set our own preference.
Go to Settings, Accounts, Sync your settings and turn that feature OFF.
Also turn Sync OFF in Chromium Edge and Chrome settings. I have Chromium Edge, Chrome, and iPhone and nothing is sync'd .
Here is more information from Microsoft. Syncing continues to be a work in progress.
Also, here is a screen shot of individual sync settings. You may well have seen this already.
I trust this is useful for you.
This works for all my machines here. If there are still issues, it is more difficult, because you need to find the machine that is causing issues.
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