So this didn't work for me, I tried twice with weeks in between but I can't get rid of the settings. So now i'm attempting the Manage Edge Favorites app as suggested by mopar3 below. I'll update...

I do understand that I can turn sync off and everything's fine at that time. But I do want to be able to have my favorites sync and when I enable it, it again pulls all that garbage data and starts...

So I have two PCs, one a desktop and one a Surface Book 2 that I just got (had other PCs in the past). I can easily delete the database for favorites and also the backup. But whatever I do, I can't...