Hi Allison, You delete your Safari bookmarks from the "Show all bookmarks" page that can be accessed either with the Command-Option-B toggle shortcut or by navigating to this option under the "View" menu on Safari's menu bar and selecting it. The "Show all bookmarks" page is laid out as a search field and two tables. This organization is similar to the arrangement for iTunes, Mail (at least in the Classic view before Lion), and many other applications where in order to delete or otherwise modify a track, mail message, or bookmark, you first select the library, folder, or bookmarks collection, then perform the deletion, detailed query, or other modifications from the table of listed tracks, messages, bookmarks, etc. associated with that selection.
In the case of the "Show all bookmarks" page, this means that you first want to make sure that the "Bookmarks Bar" is selected in the table of collections, then the individual bookmarks of the "Bookmarks Bar" will be displayed in the second table, where they can be examined, modified, or deleted. So if you navigated to "Bookmarks Bar" on the "Show all bookmarks" page by using item chooser menu (VO-I), for example, you'd still need to jump to the table of individual bookmarks associated your selected "Bookmarks Bar" collection, e.g., by using VO-J, to find the individual entry and delete it by pressing the "Delete" key. Here are general instructions for deleting a bookmark from the Bookmarks Bar. If you want delete a bookmark from your "Bookmarks Menu", or other folder that you've created in your table of collections, just modify the instructions to navigate to and select that item instead in step 3. 1. Command-Option-B to move to the "Show all Bookmarks" page. VoiceOver will announce that you're in a search text field the first time you do this. If you're on the "Show all Bookmarks" page and you've already navigated to another location on this page, you can press Command-F to move to the search text field and then follow along with the next instruction steps. 2. Navigate with VO-Left arrow, or just Left arrow with QuickNav on, past the vertical splitter to the table of collections, and interact. If you have TrackPad Commander turned on (with VO+Clockwise rotor gesture on the TrackPad), you can flick left twice from the search text field to the table, and interact with a two finger flick right. 3. Navigate with VO-Right arrow, or just Right arrow with QuickNav on, or by flicking right on the TrackPad, to the "Bookmarks Bar" (or to the "Bookmarks Menu" or any other folder you may have created that you want to select). 4. Press VO-J to jump to the associated table listing bookmarks for the collection you have selected. 5. Navigate to the bookmark you want by quickly typing the first few letters of the bookmark name, or by using the arrow keys (or flicks with the trackpad), or a combination of these. 6. Press the "Delete" key to delete a bookmark. 7. Use either Command-Option-B (shortcut for toggling the "Show all Bookmarks" page on and off) or Command-Left bracket (shortcut to go back) to return you your previous web page. Note that your previously selected bookmarks collection will be remembered and stay selected when you return to the "Show all Bookmarks" page. So if you want to examine or delete another bookmark in your "Bookmarks Bar", you can navigate directly to the table of bookmarks by using VO-Right Arrow (or just Right Arrow with QuickNav turned on, or right flick with TrackPad commander on), and interact. If you want to navigate to another bookmark in your "Bookmarks Menu" or other collection and have previously selected that collection, those bookmarks will be available in the second table when you return to the "Show all Bookmarks" table. You find those entries with item chooser menu, or navigate to that table and its items with the VO-Right Arrow/Right Arrow/or right flick actions (depending on whether you use QuickNav or TrackPad Commander as alternatives). Another helpful tip for more advanced options to work with bookmarks is that you can use the search filtering to find bookmarks. If you type a search term into that search box you land on or navigate to with Command-F in "Show all Bookmarks", you will begin to populate the table of bookmarks with matches as you type. This is very useful for quickly locating multiple bookmarks that match a search term, including those in different collections, and will match partial words that you type in, too. However, by default the search results are for all bookmark collections, so it will include a search of "History", and could contain many matches, if you have many items in your Safari browsing history. You can find out how many matches by doing a VO-Left arrow (or Left arrow with QuickNav on, or left flick with TrackPad Commander on) from where you typed the search text. Another VO-Left, etc. and VoiceOver announces your currently selected bookmark collection (e.g., "Bookmarks Menu") as an unchecked check box. Checking this with VO-Space, or by simultaneously pressing the up and down arrow keys if QuickNav is on, or by double tapping if TrackPad Commander is on, will limit your search matches to that bookmark collection (e.g., only entries in "Bookmarks Menu" in the above example), and if you VO-Right arrow you'll hear the announced number of matches drop accordingly to search only in the selected collection. Continue to navigate with VO-Right arrow, etc. past the search text field to reach the table of bookmark search matches. Again, if you decide to revert to displaying all matches, VO-Left arrow, etc. from this table past the search text field, number of matches, and selected bookmark collection that is announced as checked to "All, unchecked check box", and check it with VO-Space, etc. It can be helpful to search your browsing history if you're looking for a page you recently visited but did not bookmark. However, if you want to search multiple bookmark collections without a large number of history menu entries, you can clear your history (from the "History" menu on Safari's menu bar). Alternatively, I create most of my folders with the "Bookmarks Menu" collection, so do a search with "Bookmarks Menu" checked will find all matches within the various folders under the "Bookmarks Menu". I should probably mention that I disable "Top Sites" in my Safari Preferences menu (Command-comma, then under the Bookmarks tab, uncheck the entry for "Include Top Sites"). This is a category that bookmarks your most frequently visited web sites. Since I only want to maintain bookmarks to sites that I explicitly add, I don't use this feature. I also don't want Safari to keep web page Preview images for any sites, since this isn't something I'll use, and it takes up space. "Remove all web page Preview images" is one of the options you can check under "Reset Safari…" under the "Safari" applications menu on the Safari menu bar. I believe there's also an option to disable web page Preview images under the free TinkerTool maintenance app from: http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 4, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Allison Manzino wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone know how to delete a bookmark in safari? I have no idea, I can > see all my individual bookmarks, but want to delete some individual ones. > Just pressing delete on the bookmark does not work. When I press show all > bookmarks, I can see the bookmarks bar and menu, but I can't seem to access > the bookmarks themselves. ANy assistance would be grately appreiated. I have > created folders and can open bookmarks within those folders as tabs, but I > can't for the life of me figure out how to delete individual bookmarks from > the bookmarks bar. Thank you again for any help. > > Allison > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
