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)

Most of my use is in the notes added to Titles, historical info re scopes and test equip. - only few needs for actual linkage back, so I'll be seeking something smart enough to vet the (scripts? whatever) by which the file editing gets done re actions like Delete, Import, and every time you rearrange some few links within a huge file.

Anyway, it is no help to overcoming procrastination that.. I Can! launch SM, its b/marks and Mail ap. Close, then open FF. (Although any bookmark Saves go to the bare FF file)

Alas too, it seems that the SMonkey b/m file cannot launch per menu, now - clearly it or SM has a breakage. (Have to cut/paste the URL! Still beats no clue to addy.) So am forced next to grok something about the guts of a moz b/m file, as complete manual triage will greatly exceed my intention-span..

Thanks for tip.