missing "Add to Bookmarks" in Safari 10/macOS Sierra

I've just had exactly your experience and can link it to upgrading to Safari 10.0. A few days ago I too suddenly found that I could not add bookmarks using Safari 10.0 on my MacMini (late 2014; OS X Yosemite ver. 10.10.5). I went to my MacBook Pro (Retina, mid 2014; OS X Yosemite ver. 10.10.5) and had no trouble adding bookmarks, but it was running Safari 9.1.1. I upgraded to Safari 10.0 on that machine and, lo and behold, it no longer can add bookmarks.

So I'm now pretty confident I know where the culprit lies. But I now have two machines that can't add bookmarks.

You are not alone. The issue developed in the past 24 hours for me, without having installed Sierra. Safari generally seems to have gained a few similar little glitches since the last (minor) update.

Update: I tried my Mac Mini at work. At first I had the option to save to Favorites or Bookmarks in the 'Add this page to" window, but after a restart, Bookmarks was no longer an option.

Darn.

I'm running Safari 10.0 on a 20111 27" iMac and have no problem adding bookmarks.

It's obviously not affecting everyone. There's no indication at this time what the common demominator is.

That is exactly the problem. The menu is now only showing one entry, that needs to be expanded, and then it will need really a lot of scrolling to get past the Favorites section to the "Bookmarks Menu" section. Previously we could click the Bookmarks right in the pop-up menu, without having to expand the Favorites folder.

Now it is much faster to drag an item directly to the bookmarks sidebar then to use the "Add Bookmark" menu entry.

Is this what you're looking for?

As léonie pointed out one has to scroll down a ways to get to that item.

That's the only Bookmarks item I remember being in that menu. It puts the item in the Bookmarks bar at the top of Safari's window.

But if you choose Bookmarks menu once, it will be the default choice the next time. So for those people who tend to use it and not rely on Favorites, that is a one time scroll. To my mind, not that big a deal.

And then you will have to scroll endlessly to get to the top of favorites.

The "big deal" is that you have to expand whatever is currently selected in that menu and then have to scroll past it to get to other bookmark folders. It matters only, if we want to use different bookmark folders alternately, but that used to be easier.

Only the option to bookmark as a default is no longer there for people with this issue... It is favourites (and adding to the menu bar) or nothing.

We can make a bookmark folder to add things to, but to access it, one has to scroll to the bottom of ALL one's bookmarks every time and then scroll through it.

Something that used to be streamlined until about 24 hours ago has now become a bit cumbersome. Is it a massive problem? No, but we'd still like a decent workaround if one exists.

Ok, this is not the best fixes for the issue, but is not too awful...

I don't tend to use bookmark folders, but made one last night for all future bookmarks that I do not wish to have in my Favourites. Scrolling to get to it and then scrolling within would be annoying but never mind.

Apple's official support pages suggested opening the bookmark sidebar, and dragging in new bookmarks. It works fine, but doesn't especially suit me. What I did notice though, was that the bookmark I dragged in as a test did not go to the end of the list of bookmarks, but stayed where I dropped it...

I scrolled down to the bookmark folder I had made the night before, and dragged it up to the top of the bookmarks. Yay! It now appears as an option in the traditional place, and no scrolling required. One can place folders within that folder, and these nested folders appear in "Add bookmark..." also.

https://youtu.be/OeVaEBphJyI

I am having the exact same issue. I posted it here, but no solutions. I noticed it a few days before installing Sierra. IT's clearly not impacting everyone, but it is very annoying. Some kind of glitch. I show my screenshots in the post. Same issue. Just installed Sierra hoping for a change. None. I'll keep trying and checking these posts.

My post: Bookmark option disappeared

Similar issue here... I use to have the "Save to Bookmarks" option in the menu. Now I only see "Favorites" or "Facebook Pages" (whatever THAT is) as my places to save a new bookmark. Is there any way to get the Add this page to: Bookmarks Menu option back?

As yet, nobody seems to have come up with a way to get it back, but you can create a bookmarks folder, and folders within that. These will appear as an option where your "Facebook pages" folder currently is.

If you don't wanna scroll down to open the links stored in your folders each time, open up the bookmarks menu and drag and drop the folders to the top - under favourites... or wherever you want them to be.

Whilst you are in the bookmarks menu, you can delete folders (or bookmarks) which you don't want.

There is a video of the process a few posts up in this thread.