Safari Bookmarks

Try Show Bookmarks instead. That may provide a more intuitive way of viewing bookmarks that you may find easier to organize by dragging and dropping.

Another thought depending on your personal preference is to open the Safari Bookmarks file with a plain text editor and edit it. Its organizational structure ought to be apparent. Make a copy first.

Here's an illustration you may find helpful.

My Show Bookmarks looks like this:

That's all there is. I surmise yours is a lot more complicated. I just happen to have all my stuff organized under Favorites so I can see it in the Favorites Bar, but it doesn't matter what I do. You want all your bookmarks to reside in the Bookmarks menu.

If you click the "reveal triangle" for Mac (for example) what I see is this:

As you can see I haven't updated in it ages and most of those bookmarks are probably outdated anyway. I'm purging the Mac folder right after I post this reply.

In your case select everything you want that happens to be buried at least one level too deep for your needs, and drag it to a higher level, or the highest level.

It's certainly possible, I just don't know of a better way of altering its organizational structure.

What you want to do is pretty simple: grab everything you want and move it as a group. To select a bookmark without opening it, hold a ⌘ key while selecting it. You can a continuous selection in the usual manner with a ⇧ key, or a discontinuous selection in the usual manner too. Once you select all the bookmarks you want (they'll be highlighted in grey) drag them to the top level, Favorites... etc.

If there's a better way of doing it I can't think of one.

John Galt wrote:

I'm purging the Mac folder right after I post this reply.

Gone:

Much better. Been meaning to do that for years.