202579 - Personal Toolbar vanishes after NS4 profile migration

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Joel Hoffman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b; MultiZilla v1.4.0.4A) Gecko/20030415
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030418

When migrating an old profile with 1.4a and newer, the Personal Toolbar folder
does not import correctly. The bookmarks exist in the list in the folder titled
"Personal Toolbar Folder", but nothing except the "Bookmarks" folder shows up on
the toolbar, nothing can be added to the toolbar, and the toolbar does not
respond to a right-click. It imports correctly in 1.3.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete existing Mozilla profile & installation
2. Unzip latest nightly
3. Run Mozilla, migrate old profile

Actual Results:  
Mozilla runs normally except without a personal toolbar.

Expected Results:  
Bookmarks in NS4's Personal Toolbar folder should be in Mozilla's.

The ID in bookmarks.html comes in as "rdf:#$kp1yU2" or similar when it
apparently should be "NC:PersonalToolbarFolder". Changing this restores the toolbar.

Comment 1

[Grace Bush]

migration moves the bookmarks only- mozilla bookmark components handles how they
are used

reassigning

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can also do "manage Bookmarks/view/set as personal Toolbar"

Comment 3

[Joel Hoffman]

Nope, although I didn't try that before, that does not seem to have any effect
on the personal toolbar or any other folder on the imported bookmarks.html.

Comment 4

[Devoti Paolo]

win98 2003051408 personal toolbar vanished
the imported ns4.8 bookmarks are like the following, all id the same

    <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="880825085" LAST_MODIFIED="1053199258"
ID="rdf:#$shGh1">Personal Toolbar Folder</H3>
    <DL><p>
        <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="940193983" ID="rdf:#$shGh1">mail</H3>
        <DL><p>

the hint about replacing the odd id with"NC:PersonalToolbarFolder" is working
for me too

Comment 5

[Rob Shapiro]

In what file/what entries to you put in "NC:PersonalToolbarFolder" ? The
bookmarks.html file indicates that it should not be updated as it will be
over-written when refreshed. I also noticed that the bookmark/view/set the
"NC:PersonalToolbarFolder" but as previously mentioned it has no effect. So,
what makes that different than manually putting this in ?

Comment 6

[Rob Shapiro]

This bug should be deemed much more critical than it is or without a specific
workaround (as I requested in comment #5).

Comment 7

[Joel Hoffman]

Attachment: Netscape 4.77 bookmark.htm file

Comment 8

[Joel Hoffman]

Attachment: Converted Mozilla bookmarks file

Comment 9

[Joel Hoffman]

Compare the attachments. What I replaced in the Mozilla attachment was
"rdf:#$9YDNd3" with "NC:PersonalToolbarFolder". Of course you have to do this
with Mozilla closed (or at least with a different profile loaded) or it will be
overwritten.

Comment 10

[Joel Hoffman]

This seems to be fixed in the 1.4 release. I haven't tested it for some time, so
I'm not sure when.

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

thanks for the response ...