I hate Apple

[Den]

I hate Apple, When Linda and I decided to buy iPads I thought what fun these toys are. I thought as I use iTunes I would activate iCloud as then I could listen to my music on the iPads. Little did I know that unless you are very careful Apple would try to take over my world. Last night when I was updating my computers I noticed that all my favourites in Internet Explorer 10 were suddenly being duplicated not just once but multiple times and in some cases I had about six of everything. It's taken me all evening to restore IE back to normal and then only after I went onto the Apple support site and found that this was hitting loads of users. I HATE APPLE.   

[Simon]

All you should have needed to do, is connect the iPad to iTunes, then, on the iPad screen, go to Info, and you can select or deselect what you want it to sync, including IE Bookmarks.  I would have thought it would have then left them alone, but you wouldn't then have them on your iPad.  I can't think why you would get six duplicates, though.  Probably a Windows 8 bug.   

[Den]

Bearing in mind I updated iTunes last night as well and it had not happened until then. 

[Simon]

I still think all this cloud business is distinctly iffy.  Maybe that's the cause of it? 

[Gary]

I think you need to read up a bit more on iCloud Den... 

This issue has been reported in the computers having the iCloud software installed. iCloud is a software from Apple which makes it easy to keep your contacts, calendars, and bookmarks up to date automatically between your iOS devices, Mac, and Windows PC.

So, if you have iCloud installed on your computer, then this can be due to the automatic syncing of the bookmarks via the iCloud software on your computer. So, you may try disabling the iCloud software from the Start-up item and check the issue.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/duplicate-bookmarks-gets-created-in-ie-10/b2ac283d-8c50-44d0-be92-5b9c984054e5

[Technical Ben]

Two words.

Automatic Syncing.

I have no idea what it is or what it does. Other than remove the things I want to keep, or keep the things I want to remove, and duplicate everything else.

I prefer to drive [usb] stick!