Re: Send me your bookmarks file.
Thanks for kind offer. May just do that, but after I also look further into "bookmark file integrity checks" - which must be a Popular thing-to-go-wrong, at 955K hits, Eh? YAN thing to be scrutinized. I WON'T have to painfully deconstruct the sucker if.. it's broken AND fixable!
(I also put FF, SM in same profile - so expected the install to do what every other moz install had performed, so amazingly seamlessly. Maybe FF was smart enough to see a problem in the b/m file before nuking itself? so defaulted to basic. I'd like to think so .. Still - cookies, other .js prefs were ignored, too.)
Cthulhu's way of telling me - it's time, actually to break it into 2 or more pieces. I think I'm not alone in using b/ms as a lo-grade data-base; not its intended purpose - especially since nowadays each entry has all that wasted icon overhead, etc. The trouble with relying on Search - as with a Info-Select-like random file - is coming True: there are few folders == lots of boring editing, ever to wreak unhavoc.
I shall try grouping things, see how multiple Export works; test if Import into a smaller base file is copacetic. (Foxmarks' handy web storage, to move results to the *nix boxes looks handy -- I see, at their site, that feature was a SYA for someone whose new ap ate his main, backup files. Since I eschew networks - I have to burn CDs for sneaker net, etc. Silly. Foxmarks add-on.. think I'm in love.)
Curious to determine, at least whether it is really a size matter, or corruption - I do not grok the organizational (scripting?) which tidies up after deletions, moves and such; calling it an 'html' file is about as revealing as, *nix MAN __ is loquacious. Hope one of the 900K links above can educate moi. ('Course what its brokenness has to do with White Space here..)
But Hey.. once I can move basic mail, bmark stuff cross-platform sans CL editing of &^$#$ config nitpickery / settle on ?which? distro of the several that have passed through here: maybe the effete P-III can finally be decommissioned as main web-thingy.
0.6 --> 1.4 GHz Vroooom. And no more AVG, Spybot ... beastware nonsense.
Neanderthals for Pretty GUIs (and voice configuration)