Prev: Realto Margarino's real identity is Roger Maynard
Next: Need bash script please.
From: Longfellow on 19 Apr 2008 22:14
All in all, a lovely install (12.0), what with a couple of glitches on
my part. And then comes the time to reclaim the bookmarks...

I was running Galeon and had imported the xbel file into Konqueror quite
successfully. Now it's time to feed it to the new browsers, and I'm
having no luck at all. I suppose this is not the forum to ask about
these things, so will someone point me to the right newsgroup, please!

Or has anyone here dealt with this sort of thing successfully?

Thanks,

Longfellow

From: Thomas Overgaard on 20 Apr 2008 02:59

Longfellow wrote :

> I was running Galeon and had imported the xbel file into Konqueror
> quite successfully. Now it's time to feed it to the new browsers, and
> I'm having no luck at all.

Konquerors bookmark editor has not only a import function, it can export
too.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.
From: Longfellow on 20 Apr 2008 03:46
On 2008-04-20, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote:

<snip>
> No, it's .xbel. It is mostly html tags, but there's definitely non-html
> that makes it unuseable. Out of curiosity, I just tried changing the
> extension to .html and that didn't make it useable.
>
> I had been interested in the topic a couple of months ago, after using
> galeon a bit and abandoning it (but having the bookmark file). I didn't
> pursue it much at the time, I just extracted in an editor the handful
> of bookmarks I needed.
>
> But, a search now shows there is
> http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/
> which is about the xbel bookmarks and there are links to various
> utilities, including xbelmark.py that converts to html (and once
> you have html, you can just treat it as a webpage.
>
> Michael

Well, I would have thought that any browser that imports bookmarks would
handle an html file, but apparently not, at least as far as my
experience shows. Firefox takes bookmark imports and provides for file
input with a file browser. Unfortunately, I did all the required
clicking, etc, and nothing happened. It wasn't a matter of screwing up
the bookmarks, Firefox simply did nothing.

So I tried to feed both the .html and .xbel files to Konqueror.
Nothing. Same with Mozilla/Sea-Monkey. The trajedy is that one
apparently cannot address this by hunting down and replacing files; in
fact, I still can't find the Konqueror file from the archives, so all I
have is the Galeon xbel file.

Incidentally, I did find the xbel utilities and used xbel2html to get an
html file. I've no idea whether or not the created html file will do
the job, given the above results.

Does anyone know what forum might have some expertise in these matters?
I've got just too damn many valuable bookmarks to start over, and I'd
really be pissed if I had to do it all by hand! Now, having said that,
I've just set myself up for having to do just that, dontchaknow.... arg!

Any other ideas?

Longfellow

From: Joost Kremers on 20 Apr 2008 04:53
Longfellow wrote:
> Does anyone know what forum might have some expertise in these matters?
> I've got just too damn many valuable bookmarks to start over, and I'd
> really be pissed if I had to do it all by hand! Now, having said that,
> I've just set myself up for having to do just that, dontchaknow.... arg!
>
> Any other ideas?

only one: i use the bookmark sync & sort plugin with firefox, which allows
you to store bookmarks on a remote server so that you can keep the
bookmarks of different firefox installed synced. that remote file is stored
as an .xbel file, so perhaps you can get firefox to read your .xbel file
that way?


--
Joost Kremers joostkremers(a)yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 20 Apr 2008 06:19
Longfellow <not(a)this.address> wrote:
> I was running Galeon and had imported the xbel file into Konqueror quite
> successfully.

I'm running Galeon in Slackware 9.1. That galeon is capable of exporting
bookmarks to Mozilla. Doing so will create a bookmarks.html which you can
place in any directory you want. That file can easily be imported into
firefox and probably also many other browsers.

regards Henrik
--
The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is:
hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers:
root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost

 | 
Pages: 1
Prev: Realto Margarino's real identity is Roger Maynard
Next: Need bash script please.