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J replied on April 18, 2009 13:30 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

Whatever you put there. It's just that a lot of us prefer not to use it. For me, it takes so long to go through the nested folders that I organize the the bookmarks into. Much quicker is to simply start typing into the address field or option-command-B and do a quick search.

I put my most used bookmarks in the bookmark bar.

J replied on April 16, 2009 20:33 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

But his moves the bookmarks into the menu, right? So it "solves" the problem by having you change the way you organize you rbookmarks.

J replied on April 16, 2009 11:18 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

My bookmarks do NOT look like that. There is no such duplication. My Bookmarks Menu is totally distinct from the bookmarks in that Bookmarks section. Are yours synched up?

(Don't know what happened to my image the first time.)

J replied on April 15, 2009 12:34 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

I think I'm being pretty clear about what's not synched:

Nothing in the Bookmarks section of the left pane of the main bookmarks window in Safari.

"Top level" implies a nested folder structure, and that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. Safari just has a whole set of bookmarks which apparently have no obvious parallel in FireFox and so are not synched.

See the image I've attached, in which I've put a big red X over the unsynched part.

J replied on April 15, 2009 03:37 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

Read my last post again.

If you click on the Bookmarks button at the extreme left of the Bookmarks Bar, you will see all bookmarks organized into two big headings: Collections and Bookmarks. FireFox doesn't have anything corresponding to the latter.

J replied on April 15, 2009 03:15 to the problem "XMarks keeps throwing up a dialogue box on Mac OS X." in Xmarks:

I checked the log. It keeps detecting a sync from various Mail.app daemons (Notes, etc), even though nothing is changing, because I don't use any of that stuff in Mail.

J replied on April 15, 2009 03:11 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

In Safari, the Bookmarks menu doesn't show the bookmarks that are in the list that is revealed by clicking on the bookmark icon on the left of the menu bar or by choosing "Show all bookmarks" in the Bookmarks menu. It is these bookmarks that XMarks doesn't sync.

J replied on April 14, 2009 18:34 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

Steve,

Yes, that's right. XMarks syncs the menu and the toolbar, but not the other bookmarks, which don't show up in the Safari menu. This is because FireFox doesn't have another place to store bookmarks. Like Safari, FireFox shows the toolbar bookmarks in its menu.

Note that Safari also includes AddressBook URLs in its menu and FireFox doesn't. Those don't need to be synched by XMarks (I use Plaxo personally).

J replied on April 14, 2009 03:35 to the problem "XMarks keeps throwing up a dialogue box on Mac OS X." in Xmarks:

It's stopped doing it after two(?) times, so it isn't continuing.

OTOH, while I've got you, why does Xmarks update my bookmarks when I haven't changed anything? Is it tracking RSS feeds that I have in the menubar?

J reported a problem in Xmarks on April 11, 2009 21:33:

XMarks keeps throwing up a dialogue box on Mac OS X.

WIth XMarks, I now get dialogue boxes asking me how I want the sync to be performed. Why isn't this a preference I don't have to worry about except when I want to?

J replied on February 25, 2009 15:26 to the problem "Not all Safari bookmarks sync" in Xmarks:

A great big "me too" here on this. I have too many bookmarks to make navigating in a menu them practical, so I use the menubar for my favorites and ones that affect the current page (mainly short javascripts that do things like share it on facebook) and then I click on the open-book icon in the bar if I need to find one.

Most often auto-complete finds the bookmark I want while I'm typing.

I have about 10 bookmarks in the menu, mainly from before I figured out a better system.

So what happens with syncs? Does FoxMenu just leave those bookmarks alone or do they disappear?

(BTW, mimicking this Safari method of using bookmarks would make a great FireFox plugin, huh?)

J replied on May 21, 2008 20:14 to the question "How do I file a ticket?" in PBwiki:

Perfect. Here it comes. :-)

J replied on May 21, 2008 19:57 to the question "How do I file a ticket?" in PBwiki:

Sure. Can I also use the "contact support" link under "Help" on my wiki?

A comment on the question "How do I file a ticket?" in PBwiki:

Well, whenever I have something to report. There's no ticket system? – J, on May 21, 2008 19:36

J asked a question in PBwiki on May 21, 2008 18:09:

How do I file a ticket?

A bug report or RFE?

J reported a problem in PBwiki on May 21, 2008 17:39:

Can't type regular text right after link.

Typing in text right after a linked bit of text results in the new text being part of the link. It's possible of course to edit the source and fix that, but it's a bit frustrating if you like to put your links in right away, or if you decide to go back and change the text at the end of a section.

J replied on May 21, 2008 02:11 to the problem "Cell Background Color is Broken" in PBwiki:

Right. But what if I usually use the standard color picker in the pop-up menu and then use the other color picker. How do I match the color without trial and error?

J replied on May 21, 2008 00:48 to the problem "Cell Background Color is Broken" in PBwiki:

Great! Thanks.

But why are the color pickers different for the toolbar bg color and the control-click cell properties color picker?

J replied on May 08, 2008 03:12 to the problem "Cell Background Color is Broken" in PBwiki:

The bg button just gives the text a background (in Safari) and not the cell, which is what I want.

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