Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/29/2017 08:25 AM, Jim Dell wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/29/2017 04:53 AM, null wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
But there are the GOTCHA's that prompted this thread.
"Manage Bookmarks" does not have appropriate search capabilities.
1. I need to be able to search ONLY folder titles for key(s)
I then need to be able to yank that folder and its contents
be they be folders OR URL's and place them in the desired
folder.
2. I need to be able to search ONLY the assigned item name (usually
the titled given by the page's author).
I then need to know where in the folder hierarchy it is.
Should it be remain in current folder, should it be moved or
copied to the new folder you mentioned by you, or should it be
deleted as a duplicate &/or obsolete item.
3. I need to be able to search ONLY the URL to see if it is in the
right folder or perhaps be duplicated in another folder.
4) Repeat for each subject
Hmmmmm ..... from your comments above, I'm beginning to see your
problem. You want to search the bookmarks for a specific bookmark and,
having found it, immediately move it elsewhere in the bookmarks
hierarchy. Ids that right?
If so, it can't be done. It could be done in Netscape and, I think, in
early versions of SM. When you did a search, the display would move to
and highlight the searched for item. If there were more than one item
with the same search key, you could click "next" and it would go to the
next item. This allowed you to see where in the hierarchy the bookmark
was situated, something which is quite crucial if you are trying to do
some sort of periodic sorting out or re-organizing of your bookmarks. At
any point in this procedure, you could decide to delete a bookmark or
folder, or copy it elsewhere, either by dragging or cut/copy and pasting.
Not any more. When SM redesigned the bookmark file as an Sqlite database
file some years ago now, the search facility became a search box in the
top right-hand corner of the bookmarks display. Putting a string in that
box instantly lists all bookmarks containing the string, but it doesn't
tell you where they are or allow you to move them.
This problem, along with a few other things that got dropped, like the
ability to label a separator line, has been the subject of complaints
going back perhaps up to 7 years or so, but nothing has been done about
it. So as I said in my earlier post, the only way to re-organize your
bookmarks in to open Manage Bookmarks and use that to manually rename or
create new folders and/or sub-folders, move bookmarks around into more
appropriate folders, and so on. Of course, it's time consuming, but as
far as I can see there's no other way.
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