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[PLUG] Re: Netscape bookmarks
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Hello Greg & fellow PLUGgers !
Regarding those pesky Netscape bookmarks files ...
>> OK - I found a bookmark.htm file from my W98 system (sucessfully
>> transferred into the Linux PC by cutting and pasting the physical
>> hard drive into the Linux PC as previously described) and copied
>> it into /home/user0/.netscape/bookmark.htm after renaming the
>> previous one oldbookmarks.htm in the same directory. Note that
>> the old one had an "s" in the name, whereas my imported one does
>> not.
> But the differences shouldn't stop there. The W98 file conforms
> to the restrictions of 8.3 filenames : bookmark.htm Everywhere
> else, it is bookmarks.html - Leave windows, get an 's', get an 'l'
OK; I tried that. No effect at all. I can open the bookmark?.*
files as HTML documents with Netscape Navigator (or even with
Konqueror) but not from the Bookmarks menu. Never.
>> No matter what I call any of these "user grade" bookmarks files,
>> when I go to the existing "bookmarks" menu item in Netscape
>> Navigator to select "Edit Bookmarks," the informational
>> (read, "Netscape promotional") bookmarks file opens. Nothing
>> that I attempt to add to that file gets saved;
> Confirm that for me : You delete all the promotional bookmarks, ...
... Haven't found 'em yet with Konqueror. I renamed all
bookmarks.html files that I could find:
/root/.netscape/[old]bookmarks.html - no effect
/usr/src/[...]bookmarks.html - wouldn't allow me
There are others (some 19 in all) in directories for other
applications, such as Mozilla ... but I'm ignoring those.
and I placed my own bookmarks, called "bookmarks.html" in
/home/user0/bookmarks.html
/home/user0/.netscape/bookmarks.html
where I can browse 'em as HTML but not open 'em from the
Bookmarks menus (two places, one under the Communicator menu
item and the other on the Navigator toolbar).
I tried deleting all the items under the promotional bookmarks
that will come up, leaving that file essentially but not
completely blank, and they disappear until the next time I
open Navigator. Sounds like they're hardwired in ROM ...
> ... quit netscape, start netscape and its those same promo
> bookmarks again?
Yessiree. They won't go away, and nothing I add to 'em
gets saved. And I can't open any bookmarks.html file
with the Open Bookmarks File menu item in the Edit Bookmarks
menu.
> very curious
Is it time to download a new version of Netscape ?
Best regards,
George Langford in sunny Berwyn
amenex@amenex.com
http://www.amenex.com/
http://www.georgesbasement.com/
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