On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:26:51 -0400, Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: > 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.
One thing whoever volunteers can do is to look at how Firefox imports Bookmarks etc from SeaMonkey. Since our file formats are identical all we need is to adapt their code to our situation. We could probably use their Opera and IE import code as well. Similarly for the Thunderbird code that imports SeaMonkey Mail. Unfortunately a couple of years ago, our MailNews and import code expert was so expert, MozillaMessaging hired him to work full time on Thunderbird and since then we've hardly heard a peep from him. Although we do hear the sounds of bells pealing in the distance sometimes. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
