Closed
Bug 88711
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
cannot add links to personal toolbar after deleting personal toolbar folder
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P2)
SeaMonkey
Bookmarks & History
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: geeknik, Unassigned)
References
Details
When you delete everything in your bookmarks, Mozilla no longer allows you to add anything to your Personal Toolbar.
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Comment 1•24 years ago
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I suppose that I could say that this is build id: 2001062815, or Mozilla 0.9.2.
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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The only way to fix this is to go into the Manage Bookmarks screen and add a new folder called Personal Toolbar Folder and restart Mozilla.
Comment 3•24 years ago
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I'm seeing this JavaScript Error when dragging to the Personal Toolbar after deleting the folder: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIBookmarksService.insertBookmarkInFolder]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://navigator/content/navigatorDD.js :: anonymous :: line 327" data: no] Source File: chrome://global/content/nsDragAndDrop.js Line: 106 What should happen when that folder gets deleted? Should Mozilla create a new one?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
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Comment 4•24 years ago
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I think Mozilla should recreate it in the event that it is deleted, to keep people from having to go in an manually recreate it.
Comment 6•23 years ago
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tweaking summary since it is the deletion of the ptoolbar folder that is itself the sufficient condition.
Summary: cannot add links to personal toolbar after deleting all bookmarks → cannot add links to personal toolbar after deleting personal toolbar folder
Comment 7•23 years ago
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Setting "personal toolbar folder" in "Manage bookmarks" DOES NOT allow me add bookmarks to my personal toolbar folder. Mozilla build ID: 2001091003 OS: win98 0. Before I Installed this build, I exported my bookmarks, and deleted al my profile information (and all the traces of the older build I had). 1. Installed Mozilla 2. Imported my saved bookmarks. 3. Whent in to "Manage bookamrks" and set my imported "personal toolbar folder" as my personal toolbar folder. My personal toolbar folder is still blank (except for the "home" and "bookmarks" icon, even after re-starting Mozilla.
Comment 8•23 years ago
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just to clarify the behaviour of this bug a little: When recreating pt folder it must be named 'Personal Toolbar Folder', using lower case wont work. Once it has been recreated the behaviour is strange as well. - sometimes links can be droped straight onto it - sometime you need to open a new browser window before it will work - some times you need to restart the browser. Further if you delete the folder the links in it dont automaticaly disapear from your personal toolbar, even after create a new browser window, you can also still drop new links onto the toolbar. You have to restart the browser to make them totaly disapear.
Comment 9•23 years ago
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*** Bug 100893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•23 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: -- → P2
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.0
Comment 10•23 years ago
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Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.
Assignee: ben → pchen
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Comment 12•23 years ago
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My personal toolbar folder is in the bookmarks (with the correct case "Personal Toolbar Folder"), but no longer displays in the browser personal toolbar line. I can restart til the cows come home and can't get it to display my folders again., The personal toolbar folder area just has "Bookmarks". I also compared the presentation in "manage Bookmarks" on my two PCs and they appear identical. So, how do I get the personal toolbar folders to redisplay? I have of course restarted, and also just upgraded to 0.9.6. No joy. When I export the bookmarks, I get cryptic message popups like "NC:BVookmark Root #$8967ea59"
Comment 13•23 years ago
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*** Bug 112278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15•23 years ago
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Nav triage team: if the ``Personal Toolbar Folder'' doesn't exist when the user drags a bookmarks/link to the Personal Toolbar we should create a new ``Personal Toolbar Folder''. nsbeta1-
Comment 16•23 years ago
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1. I have a similar problem on Linux. I renamed the "Personal Toolbar Folder" to another name, created a new PTF, and then found that I could not drag/drop to the toolbar or add bookmarks (via manage) directly to the folder. 2. Futhremore, I tried to drag/drop an item from the Bookmarks sidebar to the toolbar.Instead of appearing on the toolbar, or showing up in the PTF, or failing, the item I dragged there disappeared entirely from the Bookmarks file. It's simply and silently gone. 3. I am using 0.9.8, build ID 2002020415, on Linux, Mandrake 8.1, KDE.
Comment 17•23 years ago
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Re-reading my previous comment, #16, I see that my language was inexact; my apologies. I re-state the first paragraph: I can add items to the file named "Personal Toolbar Folder" using the "manage" function, by working in the Bookmarks sidebar, or by dragging them into the folder in the sidebar from the location box, but the items that I add to the sidebar's PTF do not appear on the toolbar. Dragging and dropping bookmarks from the location box directly to the toolbar does not add them to the PTF or to the toolbar. (And the error noted in the 2nd paragraph still stands.) Opening windows, closing windows, and/or restarting Mozilla has no effect -- an item placed into the PTF does not display on the toolbar.
Comment 18•23 years ago
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*** Bug 124644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 19•23 years ago
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*** Bug 127242 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20•23 years ago
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removing self from cc list
Comment 21•23 years ago
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*** Bug 134023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22•23 years ago
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*** Bug 136582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 23•23 years ago
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I have the same problem (build 2002041103, Windows 2000). I deleted my PTF and imported my regular Mozilla bookmarks from another machine, including one named "Personal Toolbar Folder". Choosing "View | Set as Personal Toolbar Folder" has no apparent effect.
Comment 24•23 years ago
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I had a bit of confusion when I accidentally deleted the ptf. I couldn't understand why nothing dragged onto the pt would stay, then just happened to remember that a ptf was always in the bookmarks dir, but never really knew what it did. What would have made everything clean would be something like a popup when dragging items to the pt and no ptf exists. It would prompt to create a ptf, solving the functionality prob and informing the user as to what the ptf is for.
Comment 25•23 years ago
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*** Bug 141799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 26•23 years ago
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*** Bug 143443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 27•23 years ago
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*** Bug 150553 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 28•23 years ago
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*** Bug 151052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 29•23 years ago
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*** Bug 150425 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 30•23 years ago
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Well I've found a work around for this that seems to fix it. If you create a folder first using manage bookmarks, then go view->set as personal toolbar, you seem to be able to drag items from the location bar to the toolbar. I hope this helps anyone until a proper fix is made for it.
Comment 31•23 years ago
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*** Bug 153988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 32•23 years ago
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*** Bug 144804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 33•22 years ago
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taking
Comment 34•22 years ago
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*** Bug 162784 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 35•22 years ago
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*** Bug 141877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 36•22 years ago
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*** Bug 170451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 37•22 years ago
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*** Bug 171717 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 38•22 years ago
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*** Bug 145484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 39•22 years ago
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I see this bug on OS/2, and others have seen it on Mac OS 9. It is not specific to Windows 2000. Someone shoudl change the Hardware/OS to ALL/ALL. Personally, I think the Personal Toolbar folder should be recreated only if someone tries to drag something to the Personal Toolbar.
Comment 41•22 years ago
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*** Bug 180653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 42•22 years ago
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*** Bug 174691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 43•22 years ago
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*** Bug 189657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 44•22 years ago
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*** Bug 166731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 45•22 years ago
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Found a workaround for this: In Manage Bookmarks, put a folder called Personal Toolbar Folder at the very top of the list. Create a subfolder also called Personal Toolbar Folder. Add bookmarks to the subfolder and view->set as Personal Toolbar Folder.
Comment 46•22 years ago
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I've reconfirmed this bug in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 Additionally, I found this to work for restoration of the Personal Toolbar Functionality: 1. I deleted all my bookmarks (after a backup) 2. I created a folder named "Personal Toolbar Folder" 3. With that folder selected, I used the "view->set as Personal Toolbar Folder" menu option. After this, I imported my backed-up bookmarks and found the Personal Toolbar folder still working.
Comment 47•22 years ago
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*** Bug 192804 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 48•22 years ago
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*** Bug 195674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 49•22 years ago
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*** Bug 198058 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 50•22 years ago
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I believe the reason mozilla is confused is that it ends up with a bookmarks.html with a personal toolbar folder that has attribute PERSONAL_TOOLBAR_FOLDER="true" but ID="BookmarksRoot#nnn". It is not recognized as a personal toolbar folder because it does not have ID="NC:PersonalToolbarFolder". Behavior in this case is, you have a blank personal toolbar folder, and View -> Set as Personal Toolbar Folder will not cause items to appear in a personal toolbar, even after a restart. (Visual clue if you are testing this further- When choosing "Set as Personal Toolbar Folder", if it is going to work, the folder selected will open, showing an open folder icon. If it is going to fail, the folder will remain closed.) Bug owner: Bug 139136 is a dupe of this bug Solving this bug may also solve bug 146391
Comment 51•22 years ago
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*** Bug 199187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 52•22 years ago
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I fought this problem in Mozilla 1.3 running on RedHat Linux 8.0. I tried all the suggestions in this thread, creating a "Personal Toolbar Folder" and setting it as the Personal Toolbar Folder. Tril O. Byte identified the problem. I edited my bookmarks.html file and set ID="NC:PersonalToolbarFolder" on the "Personal Toolbar Folder". My "link bar" is working again. Whew!
Comment 53•22 years ago
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I'm running Mozilla 1.4a and I'm having the same trouble. I've tried entering bookmarks.html and editing the ID but that doesn't work either, and i've tried 'set as personal toolbar folder' - but i still can't get my PT back. My OS is WinXP.
Comment 54•22 years ago
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*** Bug 202290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 55•22 years ago
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It's still a problem with both 1.3 and the 1.4 beta, and the solution of "go into the Manage Bookmarks screen and add a new folder called Personal Toolbar Folder and restart Mozilla" doesn't work. I go to Bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks | View | Set as Personal Toolbar Folder, and it looks like it worked except that the toolbar remains empty of bookmarks and when I go to Manage Bookmarks again, the folder has lost it's designation as the Personal Toolbar Folder. Silly me for deleting the personal toolbar folder. I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling Mozilla, but that didn't change anything.
Comment 56•22 years ago
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I was able to workaround this problem using the technique suggested in comment 45. Creating a Personal Toolbar Folder didn't work. Creating a Personal Toolbar Folder with a subfolder called Personal Toolbar Folder _did_ work for me. I did that before comments 50 and 52 were entered - which look like they give an even better workaround, or maybe 46, which also looks good. People who tried the simple fix without success should try the techniques in 50/52 or, if no luck there, 45 or 46, before giving up. Read the comments carefully. There are multiple workarounds described here, not just one! I bet at least one of them will work for you.
Comment 57•22 years ago
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*** Bug 211220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 58•22 years ago
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*** Bug 211162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 59•21 years ago
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*** Bug 214913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 61•21 years ago
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*** Bug 224112 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 62•21 years ago
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*** Bug 214155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 63•21 years ago
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*** Bug 221932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 64•21 years ago
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*** Bug 205664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 65•21 years ago
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I've had problems in recent versions of Mozilla and Camino for Mac OS X with the contents of the Personal Toolbar Folder not showing up in the Personal Toolbar after importing my old bookmarks containing a Personal Toolbar Folder. I tried consolidating down to one Personal Toolbar Folder, putting the contents of the old Personal Toolbar Folder in the new one and deleting the old one. Didn't work. Found a quick workaround: Select some other folder, like the Mozilla.org Folder. Designate it as the Personal Toolbar Folder from the menu. Then reselect the Personal Toolbar Folder as the Personal Toolbar Folder, and it works again. You can't simply select it in the first place, as the menu is grayed out when it's selected. Somehow Mozilla's confused about which folder is the Personal Toolbar Folder, although it still recognizes the name.
Comment 66•20 years ago
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The solution in comment 46 worked for me. Good to note that the folder did not have to be at the top-level of the bookmarks, which would have been annoying. I stuck it nested a couple folders down, where it won't get in the way during normal bookmark hunting. I can now drag things to the personal toolbar again. The bookmarks.html file correctly had the attributes mentioned in comment 50 (I checked just in case). This bug should probably be getting some more attention... it's a freakishly confusing bug with non-obvious behavior.
Comment 67•20 years ago
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The solution in comment 46 worked for me. Good to note that the folder did not have to be at the top-level of the bookmarks, which would have been annoying. I stuck it nested a couple folders down, where it won't get in the way during normal bookmark hunting. I can now drag things to the personal toolbar again. The bookmarks.html file correctly had the attributes mentioned in comment 50 (I checked just in case). This bug should probably be getting some more attention... it's a freakishly confusing bug with non-obvious behavior. Using 1.7 on Linux.
Comment 68•20 years ago
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*** Bug 254889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 69•20 years ago
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The instructions in Help/Help Contents/Contents tab/Customizing Mozilla/Toolbars/Personal Toolbar/Adding Personal Toolbar Bookmarks file could be improved. There is even a step where the helpfile is not accurate and is misleading. Generally speaking, how to set and and how to identify/locate a folder acting as the Personal Toolbar Folder could be improved in Mozilla. With Opera 7.x, one does not have to create or assign a folder to act as the Personal Toolbar Folder nor does he have to name such "Personal Toolbar Folder" or some other name; bookmarks are always draggable to the Personal Bar. Each properties window for individual bookmark has a "Show on personal bar" checkbox. That is another implementation. Here, the personal bar always exists, can not be deleted. You can drag url icon to it or you can check the "Show on personal bar" checkbox of any existing bookmark. X bookmarks coming from Y bookmark folders could be shown in the Personal bar without necessarly being listed as such into a defined/pre-determined personal toolbar folder. The fact that this bug is now in the top 25 most frequently reported bugs suggests that Mozilla should consider rethinking its implementation. My 2 cents
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Comment 71•17 years ago
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lol ;)
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Comment 72•17 years ago
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Why is the status on this still set to NEW after almost 7 years?
Updated•16 years ago
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QA Contact: claudius → bookmarks
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Updated•16 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 73•15 years ago
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The Personal Toolbar Folder has become delete protected. VERIFIED
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Resolution: WONTFIX → INVALID
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