Solved Cannot save or name bookmarks
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Hi again,
I just received today a new MacBook Pro at my work. The computer is thus freshly configured with MacOS 11.3.1. The bookmarks are editable without problem. I should update MacOS but do not have time yet. I should try the bookmark edition after the update.
Regards.
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I have had exactly the same problem after using Vivaldi for less than a week. I uninstalled Vivaldi, reinstalled Vivaldi brand new, and then encountered exactly the same problem in another few days.
After hopping around in Vivaldi forums, I think I finally figured out what the problem was, and... it's kind of hilarious how simple it ends up being.
The thing about the address bar's bookmark button is that it automatically creates the new bookmark in the most recently-used bookmark folder. The problem is that attempts to do this EVEN IF YOU HAVE DELETED THE LAST BOOKMARK FOLDER YOU USED. When it can't find that recently-deleted folder, clicking the bookmark button brings up an "Added Bookmark" dialog box that looks frozen and unresponsive.
Try opening the Bookmarks page (Ctrl+B) and going to the Bookmarks Trash. Do you have a recently-deleted folder in there? If you're having the same problem as I did, you can actually expand that folder you had trashed and find ALL THE ATTEMPTED BOOKMARKS YOU HAD BEEN TRYING TO MAKE THIS WHOLE TIME. The "Added Bookmark" dialog never showed it, but all those unresponsive dialog boxes from all those bookmark-button attempts were actually sending those bookmarks straight to that trashed folder.
Therefore, the way I fixed the bookmark button was to:
- Restore the Bookmark folder I had most recently deleted, so that the bookmark button can "officially" find that folder again;
- use now-working bookmark button to save a new bookmark, making sure to select that new bookmark into a different folder, a common folder that I didn't plan on deleting; and
- now I can safely delete the folder I had just restored, and my bookmark button is back in working order, saving to that common folder from Step 2.
(There is also the small possibility that emptying the Bookmark Trash could also work. But I'm too scared to try that. Unless a Vivaldi expert confirms that option, deffo use the previous paragraph just to be safe.)
Hoping this helped you out!
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@porridgebird BINGO! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Vivaldi team please get on fixing this
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@porridgebird This reply made me to log in just to upvote. So, thank you ince again, dear @porridgebird.
This is exactly what has been happening me for the last month and bugging me the entire time. I want to confirm that emptying the trash does work. The "Add bookmark" dialogue window becomes normal after the trash, containing the deleted folder Vivaldi had been trying to find, has been emptied. -
@porridgebird Thank you
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@pekli said in Cannot save or name bookmarks:
@durhammer Have you tried Ctrl-D to save bookmarks? That seems to work for me as far as saving them.
Hi @pekli -- MX Linux brought in Vivaldi 5.0 (5.0.2497.28) today, so I just tried your suggestion. Nope, still no love with bookmarks. The ONLY way I can save a bookmark is to open the bookmarks panel from the left side, navigate to a location to save a bookmark, and then right click and select "Bookmark Active Page". That is NOT a convenient way to save a bookmark. But thanks!
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The bookmark file in the profile is corrupted. You can fix this by deleting the Bookmark JSON file and reimporting the bookmarks, but the problem will come back soon.
You can try to reinstall Vivaldi, but chances are that you end with an even more terrible bug.
