Re: Use Google bookmarks

Post #302,507 by Ashton 1/16/09 3:51:17 PM Reply	Re: Use Google bookmarks Thanks. Ah.. this sounds more universal than the FFox Foxmarks plug-in (which I have installed, but not yet used.) Any idea of the size of your bookmark file(s?), thereon stored. Does Google specify a limit OR: say how many different (-named) files can be toggled among? My problem is a couple older files which are just-at the limit where merely loading bookmarks will crash Seamonkey, not load on FFox when I direct via about:config --> locale of one of these Seamonkey-generated files. My search for a proper editing solution of the big files failed; they're all "HTML" maybe.. BUT - believe there are embedded things which make any universal-editing results unuseable. Truncating a test file == fails to load. Maybe the Google filtering of some sort can accomplish the feat; if there are control characters involved, they must be aware of the format. [WAG] (I used these earlier 'bookmarks' merely as a dbase of eBay, other transactions; not intended usage, I know -- but worked fine til near-3MB reached.) Hand editing is not a sane option. I don't know yet: the limit on FFox bookmark size, nor if Apple (same as generic *nix release?) FFox will be a 2.x or 3.x base. PITA Nothing is {ever} Simple, except in ads.
Post #302,509 by Another Scott 1/16/09 4:21:16 PM Reply	There's a FF to Safari conversion solution. I don't know if it'll work for you, but I hope it's not a waste of time. :-) http://www.whimspluc...d_Back_Again.html Even if the conversion works, I think you're really asking for trouble in having such a huge bookmark file, though. If I were you, I'd export it to HTML (in FF or Mozilla or whatever you're presently using) and then work on organizing into a stand-alone web page, and then use it as your Home page. That way, you can use it with any browser you like and don't have to worry about synchronizing huge bookmark files between different browsers, OSes, machines, etc., etc. The FireBug HTML editor extension might be worth looking at: http://getfirebug.com/ I haven't tried it myself. (I have Namo WebEditor ($$) for complicated HTML, and edit simple things with just a text editor.) Note though that there's a character out there that has you beat, with a 10 MB bookmark file! http://forums.mozill...=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a :-) Good luck! Cheers, Scott.
Post #302,515 by Ashton 1/16/09 5:15:51 PM Reply	Gracias - promising. Many thanks for the research and, as usual - interesting possibilities. Will check out the 'Convert' page anon; also editor. Loved the 10 MB epistle ... he, too found it not at all intuitively obvious how to split the file {successfully..} Ah well.. if indeed the WiFi next door works as my surrogate Hi-speed, I can play with these, without needing a calendar for transfer-times. Now waiting for UPS from Pennsylvania / but at least the shipping is free. (Seller mentioned: his first free-ship 'and it had to be cross-country'; Big $ it seems: when you let UPS Store pack things for you. I prefer physics; worked for me 100%.) Thanks again for al-punte directions! A.
Post #302,526 by drook 1/16/09 11:35:18 PM Reply	Just exported to check, mine's only 206k How do you have 3M? I could find things faster with a regular Google search than trying to find it in that many bookmarks. -- Drew
Post #302,527 by boxley 1/17/09 12:10:02 AM Reply	you dont remember his old tecra? linked to every piece of porn ever made circa a buncha years ago? back when they had hair dude :-)
Post #302,556 by Ashton 1/17/09 5:33:06 PM Reply	It's not about the links -- It's about notes I made re certain of the items -- all saved as part of a 'bookmark'. Most-all eBay links would be long-ago deceased, of course. Didn't wnat to become a DBA, just for these trivial notations. Computational-Lazy.. you know?
Post #302,560 by folkert 1/17/09 7:21:02 PM Reply	You forget, bookmarks is a file. Its called: bookmarks.html You realize it is straight HTML. Have you ever looked at it? If so, you'd realize everything you were worried about was nothing to worry about... as long as the company involved was NOT Microsoft.
Post #302,561 by Ashton 1/17/09 7:38:46 PM Reply	Yes, have / knew that. Yet.. truncating this alleged-HTML-only (?) file, while producing a smaller file: does not produce -- when saved -- a file which can be loaded as a 'bookmark.html' file: to SeaMonkey et al. so far.. Of ocurse I may have missed something, like maybe first installing the small, default-bookmark file, then ... Importing, rather than just renaming above test files. (Not sure whether I tried enough permutations of that.)
Post #302,563 by folkert 1/17/09 8:57:03 PM Reply	If you screw with it... it HAS to be valid HTML And there is specific "titles" that Netscape/FireFox/Mozilla recognizes. If I were you I'd use an easy to use HTML editor to get things right.

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