Closed Bug 167625 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Can't tell where a bookmarks loading is failing

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
Bookmarks
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: sfraser_bugs, Assigned: sfraser_bugs)

Details

If you are trying to import a bookmarks file from another browser, and have a
file that refuses to import, we don't give you any clues about where the error
occurs.
As a sneaky fix, which will only be discoverable by the kind of folks who look
in their profile directory, I'll save the XML parser error (which is all we have
to go on) into a new file called "bookmarks_parse_error.xml".
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Ugh, brain fart. This bug related to bookmarks _loading_, not importing. So this
hits you if you've somehow got your bookmarks.xml into a state where it is not
valid XML (which, hopefully, should never happen).

Fix checked in. We should probably have some more useful UI for this, but the
XML parser makes it really hard to tell where the error occurs.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Summary: Can't tell where a bookmarks import is failing → Can't tell where a bookmarks loading is failing
vrfy'd fixed with 2002.09.24.12.

when there are errors when loading bookmarks, the error file is created/modified
here:

~/Library/Application Support/Chimera/<profile-location>/bookmarks_parse_error.xml
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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