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Merge two Safari bookmark files together
Authored by: bignumbers on Oct 17, '03 01:10:31PM

I was trying to get this process to work, but Safari kept erasing the whole bookmarks file; I'd probably pasted something in the wrong place.

Anyway, I found a much easier way to make this happen - Copy and Paste. In my case I was moving from a G4 to G5, and wanted to get my bookmarks from the G4 into the G5 (and had already created many on the G5 which I didn't want to lose). Here's what I did:

Renamed bookmarks.plist to bookmarks-g5.plist
Moved the bookmarks.plist from the G4 into ~/Library/Safari/
Launched Safari
Selected the folder of bookmarks I wanted to move, and did Edit/Copy.
Quit Safari
Trashed bookmarks.plist
renamed bookmarks-g5.plist back to bookmarks.plist
Opened Safari
Selected the bookmarks folder
Hit Edit/Paste
Voila - the bookmarks pasted right in. Done.



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