Could you post what the actual entry in the bookmarks file is?

I added a bookmark like:

file:///d:\clan\index.html and it worked.

I'm wondering if the URL got corrupted on the import of bookmarks.

There definitely is a bug here though - if you type:

file:///d:\clan\index.html

In the URL bar, the slashes and drive letter get converted incorrectly.

Mike Kaply
IBM

Stan Goodman wrote:

> I am using Warpzilla 0.9.6
>
> I have a bookmark set for a local file, a mirror of a file on my
> website (this bookmark was in the Bookmarks file that the Mozilla
> installation copied from the prior Netscape 4.6.1 directory). The
> location is shown in the Bookmarks file as:
>
> file:///d:\clan\index.html
>
> Netscape accepts this designation; when it views this file, it changes
> the backslashes to forward slashes in the location window. Not so
> Mozilla, which puts up an "Alert" message reading:
>
> "The file /d%3A%5Cclan%5Cindex.html cannot be found. Please check the
> location and try again."
>
> The location window reads: file:///d%3A%5Cclan%5Cindex.html
>
> The first conclusion was that Mozilla is incapable of viewing a local
> HTML file, a bug. But I found that, if I edit the bookmark manually to
> change the backslashes to forward slashes, Mozilla no longer chokes,
> and views the local file properly.
>
> The bug, then, is that the standard for slashes is different in
> Mozilla and Netscape, and that the Mozilla installation program
> doesn't know enough to accomodate the difference when it copies
> Netscape Bookmark files.
>
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> Qiryat Tiv'on
> Israel
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