150371 - Folder Window: can not drop bookmark in it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94784

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[steven sui fai kwong]

scenario details.

I have a large imported bookmark from IE and also some others using mozilla itself.
Because of the large number of collected urls, I decided to organise the urls
into categories.

1. Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks . this opens dialog.
2. I assumed that in organising my urls it worked the same way as in IE.
3. I created new folders and sub folders
4. started moving previous urls into sub categories.
5. Due to the sheer amount of urls , I ended up having to drag individual urls
into the sub-folders created earlier. This was a very painful process because I
had to scroll down to find the relevant bookmark then I had to scroll back up
all the way to the top to the destinated folder.

6. Because of this painful process, I investigated if there are other options
available from the menu ?

7. In the end no, so I decided to select a folder and right mouseclick.
8. A dialog menu opens and an option "open in new window"
9. I chose this option and indeed a new window open with just the folders and
sub folders.
10. I went back to the original window ith my long list of urls.
11. select the ones I wanted to organize into a category.
12. And then I DRAG them across TO the OPEN WINDOW .
13. Result consequence is that my selected urls disappeared
14. BUT NOTHING APPEARS IN THE NEW WINDOW.
15. I closed both the windows
16. My bookmarks have been lost or buried somewhere else - impossible to tell as
yet because my bookmark list IS REALLY REALLY LONG
17. continuing to invetigate further just in case I made an incorrect assumption 
18. Nevertheless, it would be great to have a better means to organise the bookmark.

19. At the time of writing I have not yet read through the document but I will
do now. Even so I still think a better interface is needed to resolve any
misunderstanding in usage.

please let me know . Cheers

Comment 1

[Arno Roefs]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build: 2002053012

Confirmed....

Reproducability: always
1.Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks
2.Right-click a folder -> Open in New window
3.Move a bookmark from "Manage bookmarks" (displaying all folders) to the New
window (which displays only 1 mail folder)

Actual Result: bookmark disappears.
Expected Result: bookmark should appear in the opened mail folder.

Marking as NEW and CRITICAL.

Comment 2

[Joel]

bug confirmed...sorta...on win98 2002060904 trunk

(cut from comment #1)
Reproducability: always
1.Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks
2.Right-click a folder -> Open in New window
3.Move a bookmark from "Manage bookmarks" (displaying all folders) to the New
window (which displays only 1 mail folder)

Actual Result: bookmark <b>DOES NOT MOVE </b>
Expected Result: bookmark should appear in the opened mail folder

Comment 3

[Arno Roefs]

correction:

Actual Result: bookmark disappears from window 1 and never arrives in new window
Expected Result: bookmark should appear in the opened mail folder and disappear
from window 1

Comment 4

[Pierre Chanial]

As Joel, I can not reproduce the dataloss: the bookmark is not moved.
There are some difference between the trunk and the M1.0 release.
Arno, can you reproduce that on a recent trunk build?

Comment 5

[Pierre Chanial]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94784 ***