mohamednew

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

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.

Screen Shot 2016-09-24 at 9.09.12 AM.png

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12), Safari 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.10)

Posted on Sep 23, 2016 11:15 PM

Close

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

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

first Previous Page 3 of 5 last Next
  • by quinnfromdartmouth,

    quinnfromdartmouth quinnfromdartmouth Sep 26, 2016 7:03 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Sep 26, 2016 7:03 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    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.

  • by Aguirre,

    Aguirre Aguirre Sep 27, 2016 9:01 AM in response to mohamednew
    Level 1 (12 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 27, 2016 9:01 AM in response to mohamednew

    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.

  • by Ellips,

    Ellips Ellips Sep 27, 2016 9:03 AM in response to mohamednew
    Level 1 (12 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 27, 2016 9:03 AM in response to mohamednew

    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.

  • by quinnfromdartmouth,

    quinnfromdartmouth quinnfromdartmouth Sep 27, 2016 9:20 AM in response to mohamednew
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Sep 27, 2016 9:20 AM in response to mohamednew

    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.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 27, 2016 9:38 AM in response to quinnfromdartmouth
    Level 10 (141,525 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 27, 2016 9:38 AM in response to quinnfromdartmouth

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

    2016-09-27 09.34.54.gif

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

  • by mohamednew,

    mohamednew mohamednew Sep 27, 2016 10:01 AM in response to Old Toad
    Level 1 (10 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 27, 2016 10:01 AM in response to Old Toad

    I think, if I am not mistaken, the gif shown prove that it misses the menu called "Bookmarks".

     

    I confirm that it is a safari issue and nothing to do with Sierra (10.12) as Aguirre mentioned. I did clean install of Sierra and it is still there the problem. I did upgrade from El Capitan and before (on Safari 9.0) it was working while after upgrading it is not shown.

     

    If I could, I wish to do two things:

    1. Change the title of the thread as it is misleading, I mean missing Bookmark from drop down menu when you want to "Add this page to" as quinnfromdartmouth mentioned,

    2. Change the thread to Safari. It has nothing to do with OS X.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 27, 2016 10:21 AM in response to mohamednew
    Level 10 (108,438 points)
    iCloud
    Sep 27, 2016 10:21 AM in response to mohamednew

    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.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 27, 2016 10:31 AM in response to mohamednew
    Level 10 (141,525 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 27, 2016 10:31 AM in response to mohamednew

    Is this what you're looking for?

    Safari002.jpg

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

    Safari003.jpg

     

    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.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Sep 27, 2016 11:14 AM in response to léonie
    Level 6 (12,545 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 27, 2016 11:14 AM in response to léonie

    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.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 27, 2016 11:25 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
    Level 10 (108,438 points)
    iCloud
    Sep 27, 2016 11:25 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    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.

  • by Ellips,

    Ellips Ellips Sep 27, 2016 11:34 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
    Level 1 (12 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 27, 2016 11:34 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    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.

  • by Ellips,

    Ellips Ellips Sep 28, 2016 2:00 AM in response to mohamednew
    Level 1 (12 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 28, 2016 2:00 AM in response to mohamednew

    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.

  • by Ellips,

    Ellips Ellips Sep 28, 2016 2:49 AM in response to Ellips
    Level 1 (12 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 28, 2016 2:49 AM in response to Ellips
  • by ErnaSheree,

    ErnaSheree ErnaSheree Sep 28, 2016 2:45 PM in response to mohamednew
    Level 1 (8 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 28, 2016 2:45 PM in response to mohamednew

    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

  • by Dano88,

    Dano88 Dano88 Sep 29, 2016 4:15 AM in response to mohamednew
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Sep 29, 2016 4:15 AM in response to mohamednew

    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?

    Screen Shot 2016-09-29 at 4.14.02 AM.png

first Previous Page 3 of 5 last Next