Can someone help me out. I have a lot of duplicate bookmarks and would like to get rid of them is there a easy way or a app for free to get rid of duplicate bookmarks. I am looking at a lot of them so would like to keep only one of them each. There has to be a good way of doing this. Maybe I am calling them bookmarks but they are under favorites.
Thank you
Frank
The_MacBook
I am on firefox at work do not see that 2 stars show me screen shot please? Or please show me the steps top get to it. I downloaded on this iMac at work and cannot find the 2 stars?
Please help with screen shot and steps please.
Thank you
Frank
The two stars are shown in the screenshot below (number 1.). You might not see it if the extension is not enabled. First download the extension, and then click the three bars on the right side (number 2. in screenshot). Click Add-ons and Themes, and then press Extensions on the left side. Make sure the slider for the Bookmark Dupes extension is blue.
The_MacBook
Thanks but mine does not show that here is a clip on my extensio add on see bee below and does not look like yours the top of first screen shot is mine top bar but the ssample of yours is in there. Please help me with this again.
Thank you for your help
Frank
Just so you know i turn on and turn off the add on and do not see the star coming on address bar. See my previous post and screen shot I turn on and off? And still see no star?? As you see as well duck duck go is not shown as well?
Thank you
Frank
You can open Bookmark Dupes in the window you are already in. In the screenshot you posted above, click the three dots to the right of the extension. Then press Preferences. Once that opens, press Bookmark Dupes that is in blue and underlined. That should allow you to use the extension.
MacBook
I di all this still no luck maybe the app is broken and you know I do not see it in my toolbars should it be on there? If i am suppose to have it on toolbars please advise how to get it on there?
Thank you MacBook
Frank
Try this link (copy and paste) on Firefox to see if it will open the extension:
moz-extension://210ba4c3-ee6a-854f-95eb-9e3a0fafd673/data/tab/index.html
The extension should have opened on the options page...
steve626
I understand what your saying but have over 2800 and looking for a app that would be one shot and done like the vaccine. Why I do not understand I find it hard to believe there is no app to do this simple task.
Thank you steve626
Frank
I'm honestly not sure why Firefox cannot open the extension on yours. Sorry this is taking so long. Would it be okay to try to Google Chrome method? I know Chrome might not be liked, but just only use it to clear the duplicates and then completely remove the application from your computer.
The_MacBook
Thanks anyway I will start to try to delete them one by one. I do appreciate all your help again. I know everyone especially you tried so hard to get it to work but will delete the extension since it does not work and delete them one by one. Have no other choice I guess I wanted a app that would have done it in a minute.
Thank you everyone and especially The_MacBook for all your help.
Frank
The_MacBook
I have one other question and this should be it. I imported my bookmarks from Safari to Firebox and wonder if I am doing something wrong why are these dates like this first screen shot is Safari and second is Firefox? Is there a way to clean this up and just make it to the current sd=date like today? It shows today but then I have the other dates under each section. I would like to see just today date but if i delete the older dates then I delete all bookmark? Found this on the finder bar GO TO ON FINDER
~/Library/Safari/ and found bookmark/plist I deleted it and tryied to usse today as a date for import on both but cannot get rid of old dates?
Thank you The_MacBook
Sorry I couldn't help with the duplicate bookmarks; I really don't know why Firefox was not showing the extension. For the dates, they are the default folder name for the imports. I don't think you can automatically have them change to the current date, but you could rename them. To rename them, just double click on the date, and press rename.
If you would like to delete some of those folders (for Safari), then press Bookmarks on the top of the screen. Click Edit Bookmarks. Once that page opens up, copy all the bookmarks you want to keep. Then delete the folders you don't want. Paste the copied bookmarks into the folder you want to keep.
Do you mean to delete the folder? You can just press Delete in the menu that appears after you double-click on the folder. Make sure to first copy your bookmarks, though, or they would be deleted, too. After deleting the folder, just paste the bookmarks back into the folder you want to keep.
The_MacBook
Yes would like to delete those folders with the dates but it seems if i delete them then I delete all of them tried to just delete each date then I delete all of them. So what do i need to do make another folder then? I have been deleltying them then trasfer them to Safari and then back to Firefox this is why i am having a problem with the dates cannot just delete a date?
Still having issue on making a current date with bookmarks and when I do this maybe I am not importing them the right way thought I was maybe you can send me instruction on how to do this? See the screen shots with all the dates cannot delete one cause its a sub folder?
Thank you The_MacBook
Frank
The_MacBook
I just wanted to show you something i changed the date in the bookmarks in Safari and put them in Firefox nookmarks now that there is only 1 date since you showed me how to change the name of it. Ho can I get rid of sub =folders without delelting all the bookmarks? You will see the arrows show a drop down and as I fo down each sub folder it keeps telling me favorites and the finally get the book marks need to knw what I am doing wrong see screen shot? Also went to the GO TO FINDER then type in ~/Library/Safari and move bookmark .plst to desktop and then clean out my bookmarks in Safari i put them bak in and have same problem.
Thank you The_MacBook
Frank
Duplicate Bookmarks
