On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:35:33 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Britt Turnbull) wrote: > > In Mozilla I have tried the following > > 1) merging multiple bookmark files will not work, as the headers interfere > Editing the files to remove all but the original Mozilla header also fails > I have tried merging with the Mozilla boomark file as the first in the merge > list so that the header remains intact > ... > conclusion nothing is able to change the Mozilla bookmark file that is > imported > from Netscape, AT THIS TIME, hopefully this will change > > anyone able to educate me on this..? I would be extremely grateful.. > I have a suspicion I am missing something, maybe a cmd line switch..?
Every time I install a new build of Mozilla, I re-create (from scratch) the ENTIRE profile_subdirectory_tree. To get my bookmarks, in the newly-created Mozilla I perform Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> Import. [I have not bothered to keep my Netscape bookmarks up-to-date. Yet I would expect that 'import' from Netscape would work as well as the 'import' from previous-Mozilla that I use. If I am feeling particularly violent, I first individually delete (via Manage Bookmarks) the 'folders' that my Mozilla-install put there by default.] The trick to get Mozilla to use its bookmarks.html file is that all 'folders' (i.e., all 'H3' lines) __must__ have their 'ID=' fields in ASCENDING sort sequence. The reason I use 'Import' is that 'Import' re-numbers the 'ID=' for all the 'H3' lines, EVEN if they were out-of-order in the file I was importing (e.g., if I had manually moved them around with a text editor). mikus
