Can one merge two sets (home and work) of bookmarks?

Sarah

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Feb 13, 2008, 12:23:21 PM2/13/08

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Hello, I've accumulated large but different sets of bookmarks on my
work and home computers. Is there a way to merge them?

Thanks...

Sarah

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Feb 13, 2008, 12:25:42 PM2/13/08

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Hello, I've accumulated large but different sets of bookmarks in my
Firefox browsers at home and work. Is there a way to merge them
together so I have all of the bookmarks in both places?

Thanks
Sarah

Ron K.

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Feb 13, 2008, 3:04:38 PM2/13/08

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Sarah keyboarded, On 2/13/2008 12:25 PM :

Bookmarks in all versions of Fx up to the current 2.0.0.x series use an
HTML file. Since these are text type files, open a copy of each of the
two versions. Then use, select all, in one version and paste to the end,
after the last entry in the other file. That is one way. There may be
extensions at the Add-on site to help. I have no need for such, so have
not looked into availability.

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Ron K.
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Leonidas Jones

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Feb 13, 2008, 3:27:02 PM2/13/08

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Copy the file bookmarks.html from the FF profile on your work machine to
your home machine. Open Firefox, and select Bookmarks>>Organize
Bookmarks.

In Bookmarks Manager, select File>>Import, and import the bookmarks.html
that you copied over from your work machine. Sort them as you wish in
Bookmarks Manager.

When done, copy the merged bookmarks.html from your home computer to
your work machine.

Lee

Don Nickell

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Feb 13, 2008, 5:07:50 PM2/13/08

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Where can I find Bookmarks Manager? I found it once but can't find it
again. I'm running V 2.0.0.11.

Leonidas Jones

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Feb 13, 2008, 7:21:47 PM2/13/08

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Hi Don,

Note the path I gave, Bookmarks>>Organize Bookmarks.

Click that, and Bookmarks Manager will open.

Lee

Don Nickell

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Feb 13, 2008, 7:30:51 PM2/13/08

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Hi Lee, dern I feel like a ninny on this one. I didn't see the screen name
change from Orgainize Bookmars to Bookmark Manager. Guess I need to get
new glasses. Sigh...

Thanks for your patience with us,
Don

Leonidas Jones

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Feb 13, 2008, 8:17:43 PM2/13/08

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Indeed, it used to be Manage Bookmarks, now its Organize Bookmarks. I'm
glad you found it.

Lee

Sarah

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Feb 16, 2008, 8:20:43 PM2/16/08

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Lee, before I copy the merged bookmarks back to my work machine, will
there be duplicates if I just merge them in using import? Or should I
delete the existing bookmarks.html file and copy over?

If duplicates will exist, then they will probably exist when I merge
at home. Some of the bookmarks are the same. Will it? If so, is there
a way to delete duplicate bookmarks?

Thanks
Sarah

Leonidas Jones

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Feb 16, 2008, 8:46:07 PM2/16/08

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Yes there would be many duplicates. The best course would be to copy
the newly merged bookmarks.html into your work profile manually,
overwriting what is there,, since those have already been merged into
your home profile.

Firefox backs up your bookmarks, so you could restore them if you make a
mistake.

Lee

Sarah

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Feb 17, 2008, 2:38:29 PM2/17/08

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Thanks Lee. Some of the bookmarks at work and home are already the
same. Sounds like there will be duplicates when I merge work with home
too. No real solution for that is there (except manually fixing
them).

Delete duplicate bookmarks would be a useful Firefox feature. How much
clout do you have :-) :-)

Sarah

EE

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Feb 17, 2008, 2:51:21 PM2/17/08

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I believe there are extensions that can synchronize bookmarks. I have
never used them, but have heard about them.
You could also export both sets of bookmarks, giving the files different
names such as bookmarks1.html and bookmarks2.html, load both into a text
editor and compare manually for duplicates between them, and edit the
second set by hand to get rid of those duplicates. After you got done
with that, you would import the second set. You would still have to
sort out the folders' contents of the merged set afterwards.

David Pyles

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Feb 17, 2008, 4:46:03 PM2/17/08

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Install the Bookmark Duplicate Detector add-on:
http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/
Dave Pyles

Leonidas Jones

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Feb 17, 2008, 6:08:55 PM2/17/08

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Sarah wrote:
> On Feb 16, 6:46 pm, Leonidas Jones <LeonidasJo...@netscape.net> wrote:
>> Sarah wrote:
>>> On Feb 13, 1:27 pm, Leonidas Jones <Leonidasjo...@netscape.net> wrote:
>>>> Sarah wrote:
>

/snip/

you make a
>> mistake.
>>
>> Lee
>
> Thanks Lee. Some of the bookmarks at work and home are already the
> same. Sounds like there will be duplicates when I merge work with home
> too. No real solution for that is there (except manually fixing
> them).
>
> Delete duplicate bookmarks would be a useful Firefox feature. How much
> clout do you have :-) :-)
>
> Sarah
>

Dave Pyles beat me to it, see his response for an extension.

Lee

Sarah

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Feb 25, 2008, 11:06:48 PM2/25/08

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Thank you very much Lee and Dave. I installed it, and when I click
find duplicates it provides a list of URLs, but they do not contain
duplicates. Am I correct in assuming that there is a duplicate of each
one somewhere in my bookmarks, so I can go ahead and delete them? Does
it mean the duplicate is in the same folder? I may want duplicates in
different folders....but don't know how to use this tool to avoid
deleting those...

Thanks again for the help,
Sarah

David Pyles

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Feb 26, 2008, 9:13:28 AM2/26/08

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If you highlight the bookmark URL in the upper pane, it will show you a
list of folders where the bookmark is found in the lower pane. You can
highlight the folder name name in the lower pane to remove the bookmark
in that folder or you can skip removing the bookmark altogether. If you
have a lot of bookmarks to remove, it can be a tedious process, but you
don't have to do it very often.
Dave Pyles