Cheers. Got the new version now....

Neil.

Hi.

The latest beta is broken. Somehow the zip is bust. It won't decompress from a manual download, and it won't install automatically from within the program. 4.8MB looks a bit small, so maybe it got truncated somehow?

Also, (a different problem) when I originally installed the program using the "internet enabled dmg", that didn't work either and I had to download the zip file. So that's broken too.

Neil.

Means to merge folders, and expand/collapse roots, were implemented today in a new version of BookMacster which is available now on our beta channel.  Details are in the Update News for Beta.  Please get it using these instructions.

Your last item, that Copy to ▸ and Move to ▸ can't move to root, are going to be more difficult to fix.  It's been added to are bug tracker.

Thank you for the feedback!

Thanks for the quick response. I've been making headway on my own and have more or less figured out what your response was.

I'm slowly beginning to unravel my bookmarks, but there seem to be some quite obvious omissions in BookMacster.

For instance, if I wish to merge two soft folders, right now I have to

- create a temporary soft folder
- move both soft folders into it
- consolidate folders
- move resultant folder back to where it was or to where I want it

What I've been doing is, in the find window, finding all my soft folders and seeing lots of duplicates. Here it's natural to command-select the folders I want to merge... right click.... but there's no command for consolidate/merge.

Is there a one-stop way to consolidate two (or more) folders, potentially from quite different parts of the folder hierarchy?

Here is the exact scenario I'm trying to mend:

I've an iPad, an iPhone and Safari. Over the years I've quite reasonably created country-specific and device-specific soft folders. So, for example

Root/iPad/CZ/
Root/iPhone/CZ/

These folders contain bookmarks for "Czech-related pages suited to the iPad" and "Czech-related websites that work well on the iPhone" respectively.

Through the years of using different browsers on different computers, some of which auto-import bookmarks from other browsers, I have soft folders thus

Root/iPhone/CZ/
Root/iPad/CZ/
Root/Safari Bookmarks/iPhone/CZ/
Root/Safari Bookmarks/iPad/CZ/
Root/Imported IE Favourites/iPhone/CZ/
Root/Imported IE Favourites/iPad/CZ/
Root/Bookmarks Menu/iPhone/CZ/
Root/Bookmarks Menu/iPad/CZ/
... etc

The later soft folders are less up to date than the first two as they were snapshots at a certain time, but their bookmarks are not necessarily invalid/obsolete.

Now, as you can see, there are actually only two sets of distinct CZ soft folders here, all of which I'd like to consolidate into the first two soft folders. I'm finding it very heavy going to achieve this- my example above is a simply case and I'm finding similarly-named soft folders all over the place. I think the record so far is six soft folders that need to be consolidated, and resolving "simple cases" of two similarly-named soft folders also can pop up more hierarchy-flattening work.

Also, I don't seem to be able to move soft folders into Root/. Is this a bug?

Lastly, in the "Content" view, there seems no way to just view the top-level (Root/) soft folders without actually clicking on every single disclosure triangle, which is really painful (I have 152 top-level soft folders). Is there an easy way to reveal all/fold all?

Apologies for all the questions - I think that because I know exactly what I'm trying to achieve, and because that's not particularly difficult, the fact that Macbookster doesn't do this all for me automatically (or at least make it easy) is making me think I'm doing something conceptually wrong / using the program wrongly.

Thanks,

Neil.

Hi,

I have, through bad software and bad syncing and bad decisions, several duplicate bookmark folders, some of which are fully duplicated trees of bookmarks and folders. Is there an easy workflow to fix these?

Right now I'm just deleting dups, sorting, and consolidating folders without really understanding what's happening under the hood - I don't really want to know - but not getting the results I'm expecting.

Example:

root/
  Bookmark A
  Folder1/
    Bookmark A
  Folder2/
    Subfolder2/
      Bookmark A

I expect that enough consolidate folders / find duplicates operations would reduce these three bookmarks to one.

Is that correct?

Also, I'd like to check that a folder move operation is additive rather than destructive - I seem to have lost a bunch of stuff and I'm not sure why.

Specifically, if I have a structure thus:

Root/
  Folder1/
    Bookmark A
    Bookmark B
  Folder2/
    Folder1/
      Bookmark B
      Bookmark C

What is the result of moving Root/Folder2/Folder1 to Root/? I expect something like

Root/
  Folder1/
    Bookmark A
    Bookmark B
    Bookmark B (duplicate)
    Bookmark C
  Folder2/

The Bookmark B will then be resolved as a duplicate unless it's changed.

Am I on the right track here?

Right now I'm doing what I consider to be the right thing and yet I seem to be losing lots of bookmarks.

Thanks,

Neil.