209464 - when I try to import my favorites nothing happens

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Brian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425

when I try to import my favorites I press open on the web page I want. the
window closses and the file does not get imported

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to import a bookmark/favorite
2.press open
3.It doesn't work

Actual Results:  
the window clossed I checked the bookmarks but the imported file did not exist

Expected Results:  
imported the file

It would be nice if this feature worked and if one could import there entire
favorites file instead of having to individually import each link

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you exported the favorites as HTML file ?

Comment 2

[Steve Chapel]

Reporter, please try to reproduce in a recent nightly. Also, give the *exact*
steps to reproduce... *precisely* how did you try to import a favorite? Lastly,
if you create a new profile with a recent build, all favorites will
automatically be imported anyway.

Comment 3

[Brian]

I click bookmarks>manage bookmarks
I then get Bookmark manager 
   I click tools>Import
I then get the Import Bookmark File Wizard
   I click desktop where I have put a link to my favorites folder
       I click favorites
          I have my favorites devided into many catagorys
             I click a catagory> click a bookmark> click open     Window closes
I check to see if the file had imported but it has not.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can only import HTML bookmarks and noit your favorites.

Please do this :
open IE, select file/import-Export/Export Favorites/Export in File

And after that import this file with the Mozilla import function.

Comment 5

[Steve Chapel]

If you look at the title of the dialog that appears when you try to import
bookmarks this way, it says "Import bookmark file:". It does exactly that,
import bookmarks from an HTML file, not from the IE Favorites directory
structure. To import IE Favorites, you must either first export IE Favorites in
IE and manually import the bookmarks in Mozilla, or you must create a new
Mozilla profile and the Favorites will be automatically imported. This bug is
invalid.