[Opera-users] Cleaning up bookmarks

[Kevin A. Smith]

At 12:11 AM 6/8/2001 -0400, Erik wrote:
>Hi Kevin,
>
>On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, at 19:45:27 [GMT -0700]
>         (which was 10:45 PM where I live) you wrote:
>
> > My bookmarks are getting a bit out of control. One thing I liked about
> > IE was how you can "organize" them - that is move them around in folders
> > and delete obsolete or duplicates.
>
> > How does one do that with Opera. I've tried editing the .adr files, but
> > that seems a bit extreme....
>
>You can move folders and bookmarks around. To reorder bookmarks inside
>a folder, you must alt-drag the bookmark to where you want it. For
>folders, you can drag it to another folder, or you can alt-drag to
>reorder the folders.

I don't get it. What do you mean by alt-drag the bookmark? As soon as
I hit ALT, the bookmarks menu closes....

>Opera doesn't have a way to check for duplicates
>other than your own eyes.  You would have to use an external program
>to check for dead links, or use a bookmark manager that can do what
>you need.  You might give this program a try for dead links.

It was my own eyes trick with IE too....it's the file/URL manipulation I
cannot figure out...

Thanks!

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