198619 - Bookmarks duplicate on importation from master Bookmark HTML file.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

Description

[kent koehler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I choose to have uniform bookmarks for ALL users.  I keep a template (or Master
file) in a directory.  Upon importing the template to the browser, the
importation APPENDS the stored file to the already present bookmarks in the
given browser session making duplicate entries.  This makes a mess that requires
hand-editing the duplicates. Every folder must be checked out also as its
contents may be more up to date than what is listed in the given browser in the
given session.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Bookmark Mgr
2.Click Import
3.Import Master Bookmark.html file from directory
4.The contents of the Master File are APPENDED to the already existing Bookmarks
making duplicates of what is already present in the bookmark Mgr.

Actual Results:  
The contents of the Master File are APPENDED to the already existing Bookmarks
making duplicates of what is already present in the bookmark Mgr.
When Exporting the Bookmarks from a browser session, the dialogue requests if
you want to "replace" the existing file.  Instead it APPENDS all of the existing
bookmarks in the pareticular browsing session to the Master File thereby making
duplicates in the Master HTML file as well.  It malfunctions in BOTH directions,
Import or Export

Expected Results:  
One should be able to Import only the bookmarks that are NOT PRESENT in the
bookmark MGR.in the given user's bookmarks for a particular browser session.

I realize that this is what I WANT and I can write an addition to the source
that will match the $trings in the Master File and not Import/Export them to the
given user's browser.  I will if I get the time but it would be nice if it
worked properly without my intervention.  It's NOT really a "BUG" but an
important oversight.

Should I get around to re-Writing the Source to accomplish the above, I'll be
certain to send it to the proper place but where to send the work would the be best?

-ARP-
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv] (not reading bugmail)]

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Comment 2

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