225890 - cannot create bookmarks nor import some

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[bernd pier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030

i cannot create a bookmark, a folder or something else nor can i import
bookmarks from IE or other mozilla versions, copying bookmarks.hmtl to my
profile folder.
when i use mozilla version 1.4.1 no problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to an url
2. open bookmarks
3. select add to bookmarks

Actual Results:  
no bookmarks are created

Expected Results:  
create a bookmark

nothing changed, i have installed mozilla 1.6a just a minute ago and i have
changed nothing.

Comment 1

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Please check and possibly remove bookmarks.hmtl from Your profile directory (in
WindowsXP it's Documents & Settings\account\Application Data\Mozilla) and give a
note if it worked.
Meaby it's dupe of bug 52205 ?

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Did you install an exe, or a zip? Did you install ontop of 1.4.1, or into a new
unused directory? Did you use the 1.4.1 profile, or created a new one?
Are extensions installed?

There are three places where bookmarks can be shown: Sidebar, Personal Toolbar,
Bookmarks Manager. Where do you expect them?
Open Bookmarks Manager, Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks, and have a look into the
View Menu over there. You can set a folder as New Bookmark Folder, or New
Inetrnet Search Folder, or Personal Toolbar Folder. To do so, you must select a
folder, and then set it using the View menu. If the 'Set as' line is grayed out,
the currently selected folder is already set for this option.
I´m using the Personal Toolbar to hold my bookmarks folders, and I use drag&drop
to add bookbarks. I also can change the bookmarks file in the Bookmarks Manager
using Tools->Open Bookmark File...
That is not importing a file, but releasing the old file and replacing it by
another one. The old file stays unchanged, you can go back, if you want to.
I just noticed that setting the NewBookmarkFolder doesn´t change the look of the
folder in the Bookmark Manager, but adding bookmarks to this folder is working
for me.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031114

Comment 3

[bernd pier]

ah i`m so sorry. i`ve done a unclean installation in an old mozilla folder.
after i`ve done a clean installation everything works fine.
i can import all my old bookmarks.

Comment 4

[Alex Hirzel]

Marking WFM as per comment #3