167625 - Can't tell where a bookmarks loading is failing

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

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.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

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".

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

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.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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