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After clean install macOS Sierra, I could not find "Add to Bookmarks" in Safari 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.10). It only shows "Favorites" as shown in the following picture.
MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12), Safari 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.10)
So where do you want these bookmarks to reside? In the Bookmarks menu?
Just add them to, er... "Bookmarks menu".
Only two differences that I can see: it is now called this way, not just "Bookmarks", and it comes after your favorite folders, and not immediately before or after "Favorites". Other than that, it works the same way.
Boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode, and try from there. If it works there reboot normally and try again.
[Luis Sequeira1] Aha, so you have the option "Bookmark menu" which I do not have. If you look at the original first picture I posted, I only have "Favorites" and that is all. And of course, any additional folder that I made. So, it is a glitch with my installation or the system. But it seems that others have the same issue.
[Old Toad] Thanks for the advice. I did as you mentioned and the same issue is there in safe mode.
The Bookmarks menu appears to me further down, and not immediately close to "Favorites".
In between the two there appear all the folders that I have created under Favorites.
I wonder if you did not see it because it was further down (as would happen if you have many folders):
But you also have to click "Favorites" to see the list you posted. and then scroll down pat the expanded Favorites. The selector used to show the "Bookmarks" as a top level item, and the Favorites folders collapsed, so we could jump directly to the Bookmarks menu without having to scroll past hundreds of expanded favorites. Now I have to scroll past many, many nested favorite folders to get to the Bookmarks menu.
First, many thanks Luis for your keen in supporting me in this. I might be confusing myself. But if you kindly bare with me. I do not have the option to scroll. It is only favorites that I see. I did a quick screen recorder (size 476KB, 8 sec) and uploaded it on one drive. Here is the link. I hope the forum policy allow the link to appear:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B16DTMJaAyaNbTI2WGpEalp5UHc/view?usp=sharing
Thank you for posting the screen recording.
It makes it absolutely clear that you get nothing but "Favorites" in the menu; not "Top Sites", not "Bookmarks menu", nothing. I should have got that from the very start. Sorry.
I don't know why I get a different result than yours.
Welcome Luis. I am the one who thank you very much for your supporting idea. I am now backing up my data and will re-install Sierra (although I am 100% sure it will not fix it because I get the sam issue at work computer).
I don't think reinstalling is going to help.
Try starting in Safe Mode and see if things work there. If they do, try again normally.
I already did safe mode (as suggested by Old Toad) and it was the same glitch there. I get the feeling it happen because of someone (as me in this case) sign in to several Mac computers with the same account. That is why I will try clean install with new account or with none (if I could).
I find that unlikely.
You can create a new account on your mac (or use the guest account) and check to see if it has the same problem.
If things work ok in the new account, then something specific to your account is involved.
Run Etrecheck (an utility by a respected member of this community) and post its report here.
I did guest account steps and also the same. I disabled Kaspersky and the same issue. May be it is Kaspersky. Anyway, I gave up and will stop here. I will wait for future update. I can live with it but it will take me more steps to organize the bookmarks.
Thanks for the program Etrecheck. I did not used it but it is really valuable program.
mohamednew wrote:
I did guest account steps and also the same. I disabled Kaspersky and the same issue. May be it is Kaspersky.
Never use this. Don't just disable it. Completely uninstall.
I too have this issue. Clean Install of macOS Sierra 10.12 on a blank MacBook Pro. No third party apps like Kaspersky. All my individual bookmarks are present in Safari 10, and I have both a Favourites folder and a Bookmarks folder, each with lots of subfolders and bookmarks. But when I choose "Add Bookmark", the actual folder called Bookmarks is no longer available as an option in the "Add the page to" prompt. All the other subfolders (and Favourites folder) are. If I click Edit Bookmarks, Bookmarks and Favourites are there.
On my iPhone, I can see the Bookmark folder. So that says something..
On my Mac, I exported my Bookmarks.html file, and it shows a Bookmarks folder. So, it looks Safari 10 is mishandling or misreading the bookmarks.html file for some people.
Bug report 28487406 submitted successfully.
missing "Add to Bookmarks" in Safari 10/macOS Sierra
