why am i unable to import my bookmarks?
i have Firefox on my aMac Snow Leopard & yesterday set up a new account user but am now unable to import my saved bookmarks.html into the new user account
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wahoo i do so previous profile bookmarks now imported
thank you so much cor-el!!!
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Does Firefox give you an error message when trying to import bookmarks.html?
(If the bookmarks.html file was created from Safari, there are some known file format differences that may require you to make a small edit to the HTML code in a text editor. Let's come back to that if needed.)
If you try to import a bookmarks.html file from Safari, see:
- [/questions/932927] Firefox 14.01 not importing html bookmarks
You can edit the HTML file and remove all FOLDED attributes in the H3 tags (leave the H3 tags).
<DT><H3 FOLDED>Bookmarks Bar</H3> -> <DT><H3>Bookmarks Bar</H3>
no error message given & my screen remains blank
i tried editing the html file Cor-el but there was nothing to edit as when opened, the file was blank
Can you open this HTML file in a Firefox tab (File > New Tab > Open File) for inspection ?
EDIT (I missed your last reply):
If the file is blank then something went wrong with creating this HTML backup.
Did you ever had problems with the bookmarks?
Can you check for JSON backups (bookmarks-####-##-##.json) in the bookmarkbackups folder in the Firefox profile folder?
Modified by cor-el
and from memory jscher2000, the bookmarks file was created created from Firefox
html file opened in Firefox cor-el & little wonder there's nothing to edit in Dreamweaver with absolutely nothing in the the body of the html file!!!
my issue's solution isn't looking promising
Modified by N-C-A
Do you still have access to files in the Firefox profile folder folder of the previously used account?
Perhaps there is more than one bookmarks.html file on your system? I don't know how to search a Mac globally, including other user accounts and hidden folders, but I think it's worth a shot if you can do it.
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wahoo i do so previous profile bookmarks now imported
thank you so much cor-el!!!
You're welcome