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"
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