Re: Re-organizing bookmarks
On 2/24/2016 8:25 AM, Bill Spikowski wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My method has been to create two top level folders with a small number of sub-folders. I have dragged a number of existing folders into that structure. As an aid I export the current structure as HTML. Its shortcoming is although it displaying the folder names, it gives no information of nesting depth. Have you tried the "Show Parent Folder" extension? Hadn't heard of it, But in the meantime I've been working on a Tcl/Tk script to create a customized bookmarks.html formatted the way I want. It lists the folders in the same order as SeaMonkey's Bookmarks menu item. Today's task is to flag duplicate URL's. I'm partial to standalone apps rather than "improvements" that modify an existing installation. It adds a folder column to search results in the bookmark manager, letting a user locate and move bookmarks right in the standard bookmark manager, without exporting to HTML. (I had to convert it to make it work in Seamonkey.) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Re-organizing bookmarks
Richard Owlett wrote: My method has been to create two top level folders with a small number of sub-folders. I have dragged a number of existing folders into that structure. As an aid I export the current structure as HTML. Its shortcoming is although it displaying the folder names, it gives no information of nesting depth. Have you tried the "Show Parent Folder" extension? It adds a folder column to search results in the bookmark manager, letting a user locate and move bookmarks right in the standard bookmark manager, without exporting to HTML. (I had to convert it to make it work in Seamonkey.) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Organizing bookmarks
NFN Smith wrote: EE wrote: >That was essentially what I had been doing. It is complicated by having >many duplicate entries and and unknown number that I would NOW say I had >placed in an inappropriate folder. I doubt that less than 10% of the >unique URL's will be deleted. Part of what I need to know for a useful >reorganization is how many times have which URL's have been duplicated. > > CheckPlaces can find duplicates. It works in SeaMonkey as well as Firefox. It is no longer at the Mozilla addons site, but it is obtainable from here: http://daniel-lange.com/archives/71-SyncPlaces,-SortPlaces-...-preserving-these-and-other-excellent-Firefox-add-ons.html Another tool that may be worth looking at is AM-Deadlink, to find out how many bookmarks resolve to invalid URLs: http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm The caveat on this one is that it's no longer supported, and with Mozilla browsers using a database, rather than a flat file for bookmarks, you don't want to use it to delete bookmarks directly (instead, use it to identify dead bookmarks, and delete/modify from the bookmark tool). Smith AM-Deadlink is an application that is usable only with Windows. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Organizing bookmarks
EE wrote: >That was essentially what I had been doing. It is complicated by having >many duplicate entries and and unknown number that I would NOW say I had >placed in an inappropriate folder. I doubt that less than 10% of the >unique URL's will be deleted. Part of what I need to know for a useful >reorganization is how many times have which URL's have been duplicated. > > CheckPlaces can find duplicates. It works in SeaMonkey as well as Firefox. It is no longer at the Mozilla addons site, but it is obtainable from here: http://daniel-lange.com/archives/71-SyncPlaces,-SortPlaces-...-preserving-these-and-other-excellent-Firefox-add-ons.html Another tool that may be worth looking at is AM-Deadlink, to find out how many bookmarks resolve to invalid URLs: http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm The caveat on this one is that it's no longer supported, and with Mozilla browsers using a database, rather than a flat file for bookmarks, you don't want to use it to delete bookmarks directly (instead, use it to identify dead bookmarks, and delete/modify from the bookmark tool). Smith ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Organizing bookmarks
Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/5/2015 12:55 PM, EE wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My bookmarks have grown like Topsy since days of using Netscape. In the beginning I made minimal use of folders. There have been sporadic attempts using Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks to bring order out of chaos. I have too many for that to practical ( >2000???). I came across one addon for working with places.sqlite (I've lost the link) but found no documentation on what it did other than several users liked it ;/ Pointers please. TIA Are you sure all those bookmarks are still valid? I use CheckPlaces from time to time just to make sure that all the pages I bookmarked still exist, and clear out the ones that do not. Some of the URL's may indeed be dated. But I still need the data they once pointed pointed to. As the last step of my reorganization I'll search out a current reference or look it up in "The Wayback Machine" [http://archive.org/web/web.php]. You might try creating some folders for categories of bookmarks that you know you have, and maybe organize 200 or so of them at a time and do the job over several sessions. That was essentially what I had been doing. It is complicated by having many duplicate entries and and unknown number that I would NOW say I had placed in an inappropriate folder. I doubt that less than 10% of the unique URL's will be deleted. Part of what I need to know for a useful reorganization is how many times have which URL's have been duplicated. CheckPlaces can find duplicates. It works in SeaMonkey as well as Firefox. It is no longer at the Mozilla addons site, but it is obtainable from here: http://daniel-lange.com/archives/71-SyncPlaces,-SortPlaces-...-preserving-these-and-other-excellent-Firefox-add-ons.html ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Organizing bookmarks
On 12/5/2015 12:55 PM, EE wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My bookmarks have grown like Topsy since days of using Netscape. In the beginning I made minimal use of folders. There have been sporadic attempts using Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks to bring order out of chaos. I have too many for that to practical ( >2000???). I came across one addon for working with places.sqlite (I've lost the link) but found no documentation on what it did other than several users liked it ;/ Pointers please. TIA Are you sure all those bookmarks are still valid? I use CheckPlaces from time to time just to make sure that all the pages I bookmarked still exist, and clear out the ones that do not. Some of the URL's may indeed be dated. But I still need the data they once pointed pointed to. As the last step of my reorganization I'll search out a current reference or look it up in "The Wayback Machine" [http://archive.org/web/web.php]. You might try creating some folders for categories of bookmarks that you know you have, and maybe organize 200 or so of them at a time and do the job over several sessions. That was essentially what I had been doing. It is complicated by having many duplicate entries and and unknown number that I would NOW say I had placed in an inappropriate folder. I doubt that less than 10% of the unique URL's will be deleted. Part of what I need to know for a useful reorganization is how many times have which URL's have been duplicated. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Organizing bookmarks
Richard Owlett wrote: My bookmarks have grown like Topsy since days of using Netscape. In the beginning I made minimal use of folders. There have been sporadic attempts using Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks to bring order out of chaos. I have too many for that to practical ( >2000???). I came across one addon for working with places.sqlite (I've lost the link) but found no documentation on what it did other than several users liked it ;/ Pointers please. TIA Are you sure all those bookmarks are still valid? I use CheckPlaces from time to time just to make sure that all the pages I bookmarked still exist, and clear out the ones that do not. You might try creating some folders for categories of bookmarks that you know you have, and maybe organize 200 or so of them at a time and do the job over several sessions. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Organizing bookmarks
My bookmarks have grown like Topsy since days of using Netscape. In the beginning I made minimal use of folders. There have been sporadic attempts using Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks to bring order out of chaos. I have too many for that to practical ( >2000???). I came across one addon for working with places.sqlite (I've lost the link) but found no documentation on what it did other than several users liked it ;/ Pointers please. TIA ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
