Merging Your Bookmarks

## BookmarkBridge User Manual |

### Chapter 3. Using BookmarkBridge

### Merging Your Bookmarks

Merging bookmarks between browsers is what BookmarkBridge does best. It is actually a several step process. It first reads bookmarks from each browser listed as a source on the main window. It combines all these bookmarks into one large list. It then saves this combined list to each browser's bookmark database listed as a destination.

For each browser, BookmarkBridge remembers the order in which each bookmark and folder occurs in the browser's bookmark list. When it saves the merged bookmarks and folders back to the browser, it saves them back in the original order. Any bookmarks or folders that the browser did not already have are saved at the beginning of the bookmark list. BookmarkBridge maintains the order of bookmarks and folders for each browser separately. Please note that some browsers, notably Internet Explorer, do not have a concept of placing bookmarks and folders in any particular order.

BookmarkBridge supports bookmark separators. Separators are horizontal lines on the browser's Bookmarks menu, used to logically group bookmarks and folders. BookmarkBridge will remember a browser's bookmark separators and will save the separators back to the browser's bookmark list in the same order. Please note that BookmarkBridge will not merge separators between browsers.

### Caution!

Back up the bookmarks for each browser before performing a merge! BookmarkBridge, obviously, makes changes to the bookmarks of your favorite browsers. If misconfigured, or otherwise not working correctly, BookmarkBridge can be extremely destructive. It's even possible for BookmarkBridge to inadvertantly wipe out most or all of the bookmarks in a browser.

Backing up the bookmarks for a browser is generally very easy. Simply go into the Settings window and make note of the location of each browser's bookmark database. It can be as simple as making a copy of the file or files contained in the bookmark location. See the section BookmarkBridge Settings for more information on the Settings window.

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BookmarkBridge is Copyright © 2003 by Ken Schenke. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.