Re: Editing the bookmarks file
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?? I agree with the comments by others to the effect that (1) make sure SeaMonkey is completely shut down before editing, (2) keep a backup in case you mess things up, and (3) use a plain text / programmer editor. I edit my bookmarks files frequently (mainly to keep the versions from various machines in synch). I suppose I could use a synch service of some sort, but I've been editing for a decade and don't see a reason to stop now. I usually just copy/paste uncategorized items from/to the bottom of my bookmarks file, and then use the bookmark manager to move the bookmarks into the right categories. That way I don't need to worry about (nor mess up) categories and category delimiters. I could misremember, but I think the system generated file warning has been at the top of many Mozilla / Firefox / SeaMonkey files for a long time - maybe including the bookmark file. -- Rob Lindauer - for my real address, replace att with sbc ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
On 11/10/2009 5:04 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: Martin Freitag: David E. Ross schrieb: On 11/10/2009 8:27 AM, ClintonHammond wrote: 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. What? I never heared of that. HTML is plain text, what control characters should there be? I'm also wondering. *g* Hartmut It seems that I remember the contents of the file collapsed when I deleted an entire bookmark using Notepad. That is, the file became one long line of text. This was so long ago (I was still using Netscape 4.x, before there was a Mozilla Foundation), that I can't remember exactly what the problem was. I do know that whatever the problem, it did not happen with Wordpad. Perhaps, something has changed since long ago. -- 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 support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
On 11/11/2009 8:23 AM, David E. Ross wrote: On 11/10/2009 5:04 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: Martin Freitag: David E. Ross schrieb: On 11/10/2009 8:27 AM, ClintonHammond wrote: 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. What? I never heared of that. HTML is plain text, what control characters should there be? I'm also wondering. *g* Hartmut It seems that I remember the contents of the file collapsed when I deleted an entire bookmark using Notepad. That is, the file became one long line of text. This was so long ago (I was still using Netscape 4.x, before there was a Mozilla Foundation), that I can't remember exactly what the problem was. I do know that whatever the problem, it did not happen with Wordpad. Perhaps, something has changed since long ago. Oh, I was likely using Windows 95. Notepad on Windows XP is different. -- 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 support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
David E. Ross wrote: 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. The disabling of editing features in search mode was fixed in SM 2. Found entries can be located through the context menu if you have xSidebar installed. HTH Jens -- Jens Hatlak http://jens.hatlak.de/ SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker http://smtt.blogspot.com/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
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?? Do a Save As as opposed to a Save. Then you will have a backup in case you mess something up and need to revert - you can simply swap the files in and out of your Profile. I make copies of and edit my Bookmarks file all the time so I can e-mail collections of Bookmarks to people on occasion. All they need do is open my edited file in a browser and click away. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
ClintonHammond wrote: On Nov 10, 11:49 am, seree...@netscape.net wrote: I'm not sure I understand properly what you're trying to do, but in the Bookmark Manager, I'd go in File - New Bookmark and fill in the fields with CTRL + C and CTRL + V. And to change the content of an existing bookmark, there is the Properties button. Again, VTRL + C and CTRL + V would be useful. S. Ya, see I don't want to edit ONE bookmark at a time... I want to add the contents of a previous bookmarks file, and the profile importer is worse than useless... \ Maybe I'll go back to Maxthon... Open the file in SM Composer...but as suggested, make a copy and work from that. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
Phillip Jones wrote: Mark Hansen wrote: On 11/10/2009 8:41 AM, ClintonHammond wrote: On Nov 10, 11:37 am, seree...@netscape.net wrote: I'd use Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks (or CTRL + B). And if you wanted to copy/paste things INTO the bookmarks file?? The file is managed by SeaMonkey. If you really want to edit it by hand, just shut down SeaMonkey and go for it. You should back it up first, just in case you make a mistake while editing. Edit using an ASCII Editor such as word pad for PC or Text Wrangler for Mac and choose save not _Save As_ . Composer works just fine for this purpose. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
David E. Ross wrote: 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. I always make a copy, then edit that using Composer. -- - Rufus ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Editing the bookmarks file
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?? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
ClintonHammond wrote: How can one edit one's own bookmarks file?? I'd use Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks (or CTRL + B). S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
On Nov 10, 11:37 am, seree...@netscape.net wrote: I'd use Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks (or CTRL + B). And if you wanted to copy/paste things INTO the bookmarks file?? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
ClintonHammond wrote: And if you wanted to copy/paste things INTO the bookmarks file?? I'm not sure I understand properly what you're trying to do, but in the Bookmark Manager, I'd go in File - New Bookmark and fill in the fields with CTRL + C and CTRL + V. And to change the content of an existing bookmark, there is the Properties button. Again, VTRL + C and CTRL + V would be useful. S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
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?? Well, if you know what you do I guess it's okay to edit the file. But if you mess it up, you have been warned. ;) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
On Nov 10, 11:49 am, seree...@netscape.net wrote: I'm not sure I understand properly what you're trying to do, but in the Bookmark Manager, I'd go in File - New Bookmark and fill in the fields with CTRL + C and CTRL + V. And to change the content of an existing bookmark, there is the Properties button. Again, VTRL + C and CTRL + V would be useful. S. Ya, see I don't want to edit ONE bookmark at a time... I want to add the contents of a previous bookmarks file, and the profile importer is worse than useless... \ Maybe I'll go back to Maxthon... ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
On Nov 10, 12:16 pm, S. Beaulieu seree...@netscape.net wrote: Why would you use the import manager for that? In the Bookmark Manager, go in Tools - Import... S. The first 9 times I tried that, it didn't work Now it imported them, but it refuses to read my personal toolbar folder I thought Seamonkey 2 was supposed to be an upgrade... Or is it an upgrade like Windows ME was an upgrade.. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
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?!?!?! Apparently you don't realize that that warning has been at the top of the bookmarks.html file since Netscape days - hence, the first line: NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1. It's nothing new, and hardly nonsense. How can one edit one's own bookmarks file?? To edit the file, make sure _all_ of SeaMonkey is shut down, and then edit it with a plain text editor. As others have advised, make a copy of it before you start in case you need to restore it. -JW ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
On Nov 10, 3:26 pm, J. Weaver Jr. j...@pospamsucksbox.com wrote: To edit the file, make sure _all_ of SeaMonkey is shut down, and then edit it with a plain text editor. As others have advised, make a copy of it before you start in case you need to restore it. -JW Aaaahh... Perhaps opening it in Open Office was not the best plan I never even think of notepad any longer (What is this, the middle ages?) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
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 support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Editing the bookmarks file
David E. Ross schrieb: 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. What? I never heared of that. HTML is plain text, what control characters should there be? Martin -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
