All, Thanks to Mike's suggestion, I used Xcode to open the corrupted bookmarks file. I grabbed the bookmarks before and after the corruption, then applied these sections to an older version of the file. So I've salvaged most of the bookmark changes I recently made.
I'll chalk this up to the power failure, although I would expect a well-behaved application to journal or periodically save such files so that such an event would not cause file corruption. Paul Paul Anderson OpenVMS Engineering Hewlett-Packard Company > From: Paul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Camino List <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:08:32 -0500 > To: Camino List <[email protected]> > Conversation: [Camino] Corrupted bookmarks file > Subject: Re: [Camino] Corrupted bookmarks file > > Ruurd, > >> You can try running the file through gzip and see if that gives some readable >> stuff. > > gzip: bookmarks-corrupted-1.plist: not in gzip format > > Mike, > >> what if you try to open it in xcode or BBEdit or vi or emacs? > > Using xcode, I can see most of the file is OK but there's some garbage in > the middle of the file. After removing it, Camino barks about it not being > in the right format. > > I'll have to examine the contents more closely, paying attention to > unbalanced tags. > > Paul > > Paul Anderson > OpenVMS Engineering > Hewlett-Packard Company > > _______________________________________________ > Camino mailing list > [email protected] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
