187134 - When a group of bookmarks is dragged to a folder, their order is reversed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 85469

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021229
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021229

If a group of bookmarks has been sorted into a particular order (e.g.
alphabetical) and is then dragged as a group into a pre-existing folder, they
appear within that folder in reverse order to the originally-arranged one.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose a group of bookmarks.
2. Sort them (by dragging) into a particular order, e.g. alphabetical.
3. Select them all and drag the group into a pre-existing folder.

Actual Results:  
When the folder is opened, the newly-dragged bookmarks appear in reverse order
at the bottom of the list within that folder.

Expected Results:  
The originally-arranged order should be retained after dragging.

Mac G3 (old beige tower); OS 9.2.2. Modern theme.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85469 ***

Comment 2

[d.verrelli]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Windows 2000, PC

I agree that this seems slightly different to the cut-and-paste bugs, which have
been _reported_ as being dependent on "selection order"  with control - mouse
click or else "randomly" arranged.
I had the same problem AFTER importing various bookmark files from various
versions of Netscape (originating about 1999 (v?) up until v6.2.3).  Upon
individual import of each file the order is perfect as they are appended to the
end of the existing bookmarks (in the 'root').  However I wish to stick the
imported marks into a 'folder' called OLDSTUFF.  When I do that, they get shown
in reverse order.

What I do is to select the first mark to be moved with the mouse, and then hold
down shift and go to the end.  But it does the same thing when I select in the
opposite direction.
So I imagine that it is copying in the wrong order.

Now just an interesting thing to note:  when you copy from a 'folder' (e.g.
OLDSTUFF) back out to the 'root', the order of the stuff you select _IS_
retained!  How about that!