Closed Bug 100507 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

INTL: Problem with imported IE 6 bookmarks

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 69768
mozilla1.0.1

People

(Reporter: mail, Assigned: bugs)

References

Details

(Keywords: intl)

After the automatic import of IE6 bookmarks copy the bookmarks from "Imported IE
Favorites" - "Links" (those are the button bar bookmarks) to the "Personal
Toolbar Folder" in Mozilla 0.94. Those copied links will only work until a
complete restart of Mozilla after which they only give something like the
following result: 

[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.heise.de/newsticker/
Modified=80A8AFD7B432C10156

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56765 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This ain't a dup. The fact that this copying doesn't work properly is definitely
a bug, I'm marking it as a dependency of bug 56765 as not being able to copy the
bookmarks is a bug that would need to be fixed on the way to emulating real
bookmarks but it's definitely a bug in its own right.

Bug 101174 addresses the fact that the UI should indicate the read only nature
of IE favourites but as this bug concerns copying bookmarks from IE to Mozilla
and not altering the IE favs in any way then this should work just fine.

Changing severity to normal as bits of the UI not working is definitely not minor.
Blocks: 56765
Severity: minor → normal
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
This bug is known to occur if you have your favorites in a non-standard 
location (bug 89220).  I think the standard location is c:\windows\favorites.  
mail@wolfhart-bauer.de, where is your favorites folder?  (One way to find out 
where your favorites folder is located: open IE, go to the favorites menu, 
right-click on a subfolder, and select "Explore".)
My IE bookmarks folder is in the default location c:\windows\favoriten (note the
"n") as I use the German version of Win98. The interesting thing about this bug
is that it only occurs after a restart of Mozilla. In the same session the
bookmark will still work. 
Marking NEW. Possible dupe of bug bug 89220?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: intl
Summary: Problem with imported IE 6 bookmarks → INTL: Problem with imported IE 6 bookmarks
Alex "Rembrandt" Bischoff: I don't think so. Bug 89220 describes a situation in
which the imported IE bookmarks generally don't work. This was not the problem
on my system. The imported IE bookmarks *are* working, but not after copying
them to another folder. 
There's another bug on this somewhere, I saw it earlier this evening. 
Whiteboard: dupeme
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
marking p3 and mozilla0.9.9
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.9
Not going to get to this for mozilla0.9.9. Pushing out to mozilla1.0.1
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.9 → mozilla1.0.1
mass reassign of pchen bookmark bugs to ben
Assignee: pchen → ben
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Blocks: 120814
Plese reconsider your decision for leaving this 1.1.1
As migrating from ie i couldn't understand the strange behaviour of my old ie
bookmarks.
as surfers are used to use their bookmarks and don't easily remember all the
saved url please reconsider this bug to critical.

as i have noticed on 56765, there are a lots of people who would enjoy a furture
enhancement.
thanks + best regards
maks
Likely duplicate of bug 69768.
please reopen and explain if you disagree

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69768 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer blocks: 120814
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Whiteboard: dupeme
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