I've done this before but I cannot remember how I did it.
I would like to import my firefox bookmarks to my safari bookmarks. But for the life of me I cannot remember how I did this.
Any and all help would be great.
Thanks
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Safari lets oyu import bookmarks from a file using the file/import bookmarks command.
However, it looks for an HTML file, and typically Firefox savs a Java/JSON file.
So you need to export your firefox bookmarks into an HTML file. You'll have to rummage around int he firefox menues to do that. I can tell you this, you "show all bookmarks" and its one of the icons int he window header, not a regular pull-down menu.
Best
Grant
Thats the strange part. When I'm in Firefox and click on file I don't see Import or Export in the drop down. So, can I just export from Safari?
I thought this was what I did the first time but when I open the file that I saved the export in it's empty?????
Read what i said!!! :-)
I told you you have to go to "show all bookmarks" and then find a non-menu icon that has the commands in it.
Its a pictogram that opens to have commands....
Look around the window. I dont recall at the moment.
Grant
Grant,
When I go to file- import bookmarks it takes me to import bookmarks menu but I annot get to any details in the files, i.e. I know the bookmarks file is in all my files but when I click on all my files it does not open.
Can you help me out?
Hello,
I dont quite follow. You are importing into Safari, correct?
If so, you select import bookmarks. A standard file location/selection dialog box appears and you need to navigate to the place where you (yes, you) EXPORTED the bookmarks from whatever - maybe Firefox, maybe another version of Safari. It must be saved in HTML format. Select it, and import.
Then go to Bookmarks --> show all bookmarks. They should be in a folder on the left with a title like "imported today".
Does this answer your question? It was pretty vague...a word or words seemed to be missing, maybe from editing.
Grant
Grant, yes I am importing into Safari
I follow your instructions but when I want to go to where the file is stored I click on All My Files (see below) and the next window does notopen to show any files
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I see nothing below. What exactly is "all my files"?
Maybe something in Lion ( i dont use Lion). But really, it does not matter. Are you opening the standard Mac open/save dialog? What directory is it opening to? Do you have the dialog box expanded so you can navigate to where you left the file? Remember, you saved the file. You have to knwo exactly where - what drive, what directory, what sub-directory etc. Only you know this. Then you must navigate to that exact location.
See the opn dialkog below. All the files you see are greyed out because noen are HTML (there are HLTM safari files further down and they are black)
Importing bookmarks/Firefox-Safari
