help organizing bookmarks in safari

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help organizing bookmarks in safari

A short backstory: I have used Safari for years. I do sync my bookmarks across my iphone and ipad.

I've also tried Firefox and Chrome at times.

At one point, I imported the bookmarks I had in FF or Chrome, back to Safari. When I did that, if looks like they all got loaded at the end of my safari book marks. So, at this point my bookmarks look to be in three groups:

Favorites
Bookmarks Menu
and a long list of folders.

In the last group, some of the folder names are the same as those I have in the bookmarks menu group.

At this point, I want to go through the 3 groups, see where I have duplicate folders and bookmarks, get rid of those and then sort it down to just

Favorites and Bookmarks Menu

In my own opinion, I've overused the Favorites and need to thin that group down to a true favorites list, with fewer bookmarks here, and have the Bookmarks Menu group be a list of well thought out folders and subfolders to allow them to be more user friendly and worthwhile.

http://www.guidingtech.com/22029/useful-tips-safari-6-power-user/

Here is my question. I searched for some tips on organizing bookmarks and found an article from a while back, that shows as update as of July 6, 2017. In this article, the writer describes a way to copy a bookmark folder to the desktop, edit it there, which is easier than within the bookmark list itself and then to drag it back. I am not able to duplicate the process. I am able to drag the folder onto my desktop and edit and reorder them. I just cannot figure out how to get the folder back into the bookmarks folder. I am hoping someone here knows if this is actually possible as it would be a big help in cleaning up the many folders that I need to go through.

Is there a way to copy/move the editied folder from my desktop back into the bookmarks folder in Safari 10.1.2 ???

Thank you for any help,

Michelle

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12.6)

Posted on Aug 7, 2017 2:00 PM

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Answer 1

tygb

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Aug 8, 2017 2:26 AM in response to BellaMichelle

If you right click on the desktop a pop up appears , click on create a new folder , an untitled folder will be created on the desktop , and you try to drag and drop into the bookmarks side bar , it will not get transferred .

You can create an untitled folder in the bookmarks side bar and can drag drop the important bookmarks in it .

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Answer 2

tygb

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Aug 8, 2017 10:07 PM in response to BellaMichelle

You can create an untitled folder 1 in book mark side bar , then can again create a subfolder untitled folder 2 under it ,

And can drag and drop bookmarks in it .

Then can drag and drop this untitled folder 1 over the desktop and can open it , the bookmarks will be saved .

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Answer 3

BellaMichelle Author

Level 2

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Aug 8, 2017 7:43 PM in response to Eric Root

To both tygo and Eric,

If I am following your ideas, I create the newly edited folders I described, and put them into the new folder you suggest that I create in the bookmarks sidebar. Don't I still have to then pull those folders out of that to recreate the group of folders in the bookmark menu? Maybe I am not tracking your idea.

Thank you for taking the time to reply,

Michelle

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Answer 4

Eau Rouge

Level 8

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Aug 9, 2017 12:24 AM in response to BellaMichelle

So drag the Bookmarks folder you want to edit to the Desktop. Edit the contents of the folder as you desire.

Go back to Safari, click on Bookmarks in the menubar, click Add Bookmarks folder, and name it as you want.

Click on the disclosure triangle to open the folder. Now back to Desktop open the newly edited folder and drag the contents to the new folder you created in the Safari sidebar. you should now be able to access your newly edited Bookmarks from the sidebar.

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