On 09/01/2018 01:49 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 9/1/2018 10:26 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:My bookmarks have grown like Topsy. [ I've > 300 folders and >5000 bookmarks ] I have many duplicates and the tree structure is a mess. My goals include: 1. Create a HTML file of bookmarks which: a. clearly shows the hierarchical structure of nested folders. b. allows searching for folder names as well as page titles. c. clearly shows in which the searched for file resides. 2. find and purge duplicates. 3. move folders around to create a more reasonable structure.Looking for useful tools I found jq [https://stedolan.github.io/jq/]. An outline of my procedure is: 1. export SeaMonkey bookmarks in JSON format. 2. use jq to pretty print the JSON. {It does so nicely.} 3. create HTML file described above. 4. find duplicate targets and delete all but one. 5. Each leaf of the bookmark tree is an object. Move these objects around to create a more friendly tree. 6. Import the clean organized bookmarks. The Tcl code below does #3. I've only sketched how to do #4. [requires having done jq '.' yourrawbookmarks.json > prettytestalpha.json ] Comments?[method snipped] Long ago, I realized that I wanted to see my bookmarks more often than any Web page. I set the preference variable browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML to True. Actually, I have user_pref("browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML", true); // automatically export bookmarks into an HTML file in my user.js file in my profile. (The // indicates a comment, to remind me why I did this.) Every time I terminate SeaMonkey, my bookmarks are automatically exported to the file bookmarks.html in my profile. In the userContent.css file in the chrome folder in my profile, I added url("file:///xxx") { body { margin-left: 2em !important; font-size: 12pt } h3 + dl { margin-left: 2em !important } } where "xxx" is the complete path to the file bookmarks.html. (If you do not have a userContent.css file, copy the file userContent-example.css to make a userContent.css file.) Using [Edit > Preferences > Browser], I set the radio button to "Home page" for all three "Display on" selections and the same complete path to the file bookmarks.html as above (including the file:/// but without the quotation marks) in the input area "Clicking the home button takes you to this group of pages". All this gives me a nicely formatted display of my bookmarks. Folder names are bold. Folder contents are indented, and subfolder contents are indented farther. Also, I do intentionally have some duplicate bookmarks. When I create them, I set duplicate tags for them. This is not quite as good as the old Netscape browser capability of creating a shortcut for a bookmark. With that capability, changing a bookmark automatically changed the shortcut.
If I understand, you have described how to have avoided the mess I'm in [i.e. My bookmarks grew like Topsy resulting in > 300 folders and >5000 bookmarks. ]
I have a profile set aside for experimentation. I posted the same code over on comp.lang.tcl and received several suggestions which will require research to understand. I'll try to implement what you outlined. Whether or not I succeed I'll live up to a tag line I've used:
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