[P1] Safari Web Browser

[Jim Freeman]

Yes, this is what I ended up doing and it worked fine, although my 
folder names had some unrendered html in them. Formatting, no doubt.

Jim

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:14  PM, Zachary Heaton wrote:

> There is probably a faster way to do this, but here's how I pulled it 
> off.  Safari's documentation states that it auto-imports bookmarks 
> from IE on the first time that it boots up.  Fortunately, Omniweb 
> bookmarks (~/Library/Application Support/Omniweb/Bookmarks.html) are 
> in nearly the same file format as IE bookmarks.  Thus, the trick is to 
> copy your Omniweb bookmarks file, rename the copy to "Favorites.html", 
> and place it in "~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/" .  Now, go up a 
> directory into your Preferences folder, and move the file 
> "com.apple.Safari.plist" to your desktop.  This last step "fools" 
> Safari into thinking that it has not been launched before.  (Of 
> course, if you are feeling adventurous, you can always open up the 
> preferences file and set the "IEFavoritesWereImported" tag to "No" or 
> "<false/> - no guarantees, this isn't how I did it.)