[G4] G4 Bookmark transfer from Chimera to Safari

Richard Smykla rsmykla at pipeline.com
Wed Jan 8 16:17:30 PST 2003


John,

Thanks for the solution, problem resolved in a couple of minutes. 
Beats the hell out of drag and drop bookmarks one at a time!

Rick


>On 1/7/03, Richard Smykla wrote:
>>
>>  I just wish there were a simple way to get my Chimera bookmarks into
>
>Weiyun Yu <weiyun at wlinkw.com> wrote to the Mac-L list:
>
>A bit of behind the scene detective work has paid off.
>
>My solution was,
>
>1. Export the bookmarks from within Chimera (HTML file).
>2. Replace Favorites.html file within ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer folder
>by the above file.
>3. Quit Safari. Delete the following file and 2 folders...
>~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
>~/Library/Safari/
>~/Library/Caches/Safari/
>4. Restart Safari and the new files would now be under imported IE
>bookmarks.
>
>Yep, a very promising app with some holes eg. No Keychain integration as far
>as I can tell.
>
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Rick Smykla
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