On 7/8/2011 11:42 AM, Graham P Davis wrote:
I thought I'd have another try with Seamonkey 2.1 but ran into a couple
of problems.
(1) I thought I saw SM say it was importing FF5 bookmarks but must have
been mistaken. I know other browsers can't manage that trick but would
have thought another Mozilla product would have been up to the task.
Silly me! Don't worry, I know the way to get round this one - export
bookmarks from FF as HTML and then import them into SM - but it's a pity
the left hand doesn't know what the right one is up to.
(2) Most mail folders and account info was imported more-or-less OK but
"Blogs& News Feeds" is a disaster area - nothing imported there.
(a) I tried exporting from TB5 as OPML file - or files, it only seems to
try one file at a time - but this was a total failure. I don't know where
the fault lies but suspect TB5 as the file was empty apart from the date.
Having said that, the "Manage subscriptions" import option may be as
useless as the "add" button (see (c)).
(b) I then tried copying the TB5 files (mail/feeds folder and feeds.msf)
into the SM folder but that made no difference.
(c) Next, I tried adding the feeds from scratch using "Manage
subscriptions" but it couldn't manage to do anything. Clicked on "add"
and then pasted in the HTML for the feed, then "OK", but nothing
happened. Did the identical thing with TB5 using the same link and it
worked fine.
Can someone help?
Sadly I know very little about item 2. But at least as far as Item 1 and
import in general...
We have (sadly) not spent much time lately on import, not from a lack of
want but from a lack of time. One of my (soonish) goals on a personal
level is to get our import code attacked, updated, and refreshed.
To allow a better import experience and wider variety of importing code.
(I *think* [but have not verified] that our import code for bookmarks
from Firefox currently looks for the old [pre-places] bookmarks.html on
their end, and tries to import that, rather than using the DB like we
also use now).
If any community member, who knows a bit about programming (warning:
C/C++ is required as well for this code), I will be happy to mentor!
Hell even a comparison of _prefs_ would be helpful (which can be done by
a non-programmer and would help even for the case of potentially
updating our pref UI/organization to better reflect reality -- not as
high a priority to me as import).
If anyone is up for one of these tasks, feel free to reply to this
thread and we can probably work to set "something" up.
--
~Justin Wood (Callek)
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