On 11/10/2009 8:27 AM, ClintonHammond wrote: > I tried to open my Seamonky2 bookmarks file in an editor (As I often > did with previous versions of Seamonkey) only to be met with a warning > in the header about how it's a generated file and will be read and > over-written and DO NOT EDIT... What kind of nonsense is this?!?!?! > > How can one edit one's own bookmarks file?? >
It can be edited while SeaMonkey is toally terminated. I strongly suggest using Wordpad and not Notepad. The file contains some control characters that might cause Notepad to corrupt the file. I would also strongly recommend copying the file to create a backup. However, I have almost always edited the file using the Bookmark Manager. If you kept SeaMonkey 1.1.x and installed SeaMonkey 2 AND ITS PROFILE in directories separate from SeaMonkey 1.1.x, you should be able to open the Bookmark Manager for both and copy from one to the other. The only times I have used Wordpad to edit the file was when I wanted to change the domain names in a large number of bookmarks. Those bookmarks all pointed to pages in the mirror of a very large archive. When that mirror began to have problems, I switched to using a different mirror. That required making the same change to about 250 bookmarks, which was quite easy with Wordpad. The major deficiency in Bookmark Manager for editing is that a search for a particular bookmark results in a new window. A number of editing operations are disabled in that window. The search is useless for editing in the main Bookmark Manager window since it does not indicate where in 1,200 bookmarks the found entry is located. These are very old bug reports. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
