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Bookmark Buddy can import favorites from Internet Explorer and MSN Explorer, bookmarks from Firefox, Netscape, SeaMonkey, Camino, Mozilla, Safari, Compass, Powermarks and Yahoo! Toolbar, hotlists from Opera, Favorite Places from AOL and CompuServe 2000, shortcuts from your Start Menu and URL lists from URL Organizer 1 & 2. Here’s how:
| 1. | From the File menu select Import. |
| 2. | Select the format of the bookmark collection you want to import. |
| 3. | Select the user/profile you want to import. Bookmark Buddy remembers the path name of the last imported or exported bookmark file in the selected format. |
| 4. | If necessary, the path name of the source file/folder. AOL and Compuserve users, see below. |
| 5. | Choose whether to append to an existing bookmark list, or import into a new bookmark list (in which case you may want to the path name). |
| 6. | Set the options you require (see below). |
| 7. | Press the Import button. |
| 8. | If there’s a problem, check that the Source file or folder is correct, and if necessary another. |
Options
Add http:// to addresses missing protocol prefix: Where a bookmark address is missing a prefix (e.g. www.urlorg.com/index.html), Bookmark Buddy will prepend http://.
Sort alphabetically: Bookmark Buddy will sort all bookmarks into alphabetical order.
Set initial bookmark rating: Bookmarks may be imported with no rating selected or with a rating of 3 (out of 5) stars.
Observations
Bookmark Buddy will not detect duplicate bookmarks at this stage, but you can deal with these after import – select Manage duplicates from the Edit menu.
In order to fit your bookmarks into a 3-tier hierarchy, Bookmark Buddy has to do some pre-arranging of its own. These changes are only reflected in the imported bookmark list, not in your original favorites/bookmarks/hotlist/shortcuts.
Where you have bookmarks that are at the top level of the bookmark collection, Bookmark Buddy inserts both a category and subcategory heading (‘Uncategorized’) above those bookmarks. Where you have bookmarks one folder down from the top level, Bookmark Buddy inserts a subcategory heading (‘Uncategorized’) above those bookmarks. You can change the ‘Uncategorized’ headings to something else afterwards.
Where you have bookmarks more than two folders down from the top level, the bottom level folder is effectively moved up one or more levels to become a subcategory. Because this may not be what you want, it may be advisable before you import to rearrange the folders so that you do not have any folders within folders within folders.
Ideally you would start with a bookmark collection that has:
| • | a top level of just category folders |
| • | a second level of just subcategory folders |
| • | a third level of just bookmarks |
Import Yahoo Toolbar Bookmarks
You must first export a copy of your bookmarks to your computer:
| 2. | Click on the Y! Bookmarks button and select Edit/Import Bookmarks. |
| 3. | Click on the link Export Bookmarks. |
| 4. | Follow Yahoo’s instructions for exporting your bookmarks. |
| 5. | Follow the steps above for importing the exported bookmark file into Bookmark Buddy, selecting Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Yahoo Bookmarks as the format. |
Import AOL & CompuServe Favorite Places
As of Compuserve 2000, the software can export to the same ‘Personal Filing Cabinet’ file format that AOL can. To import your Favorite Places from AOL or Compuserve, you must first save them to a separate ‘Favorite Places’ file.
To do this in Compuserve 2000 or AOL version 5 or later:
| 2. | Select ‘Favorite Places’ from the ‘Favorites’ menu. |
| 3. | Click on the ‘Save/Replace’ button at the bottom-right of the Favorite Places window. |
| 4. | Leave ‘Save the Favorite Places …’ option selected |
| 6. | Choose a suitable place to save the Favorite Places file. If necessary, make a note of where you save the file so that you can find it again with Bookmark Buddy. |
| 8. | In Bookmark Buddy, follow the steps above for importing a bookmark collection, choosing ‘AOL/Compuserve Personal Filing Cabinet’ as the format and selecting the Favorite Places file you have just saved. |
To do this in AOL version 4:
| 2. | Select ‘Favorite Places’ from the ‘Favorites’ menu. |
| 3. | Right-click on the ‘Favorite Places’ folder at the top of the Favorite Places window. |
| 4. | Select ‘Save Folder As’ from the pop-up menu. |
| 5. | Choose a suitable place to save the Favorite Places file. If necessary, make a note of where you save the file so that you can find it again with Bookmark Buddy. |
| 6. | Click ‘Save’. (You can close the new window that opens listing your Favorite Places again.) |
| 7. | In Bookmark Buddy, follow the steps above for importing a bookmark collection, selecting ‘AOL Favorite Places’ and the Favorite Places file you have just saved. |
AOL favorites are sometimes stored without the http:// protocol prefix, so it is usually a good idea to check the option Add http:// to addresses missing protocol prefix.
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