Solved BUG: Bookmarks not Bookmarking. (SOLVED)
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Bookmarks are not actually bookmarking, but give me this view (see image)
requiring all the information to be manually inputted.
Will not bookmark via the bookmark icon next to my user login in the top menu bar, nor when right clicking on a page and selecting bookmark page.I noticed this began about two updates back. I just updated to the following hoping that it had been fixed, but nope.
Vivaldi 4.2.2406.54 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 29ea3c34df2dfc54a3e299b8b95239fdb603a48d
OS Windows 10 OS Version 2009 (Build 19043.1237)
JavaScript V8 9.3.345.19
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.99 Safari/537.36
Command Line "C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --disable-smooth-scrolling --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path C:\Program Files\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path C:\Users\dgrandy\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default- "Not everyone believes what you believe, Morpheus!"
- "My beliefs do not require them to..."
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@rdreammaker It's a known bug, that for some reason is not fixed even though it's one of the more common reports users make.
It happens when the last used folder used for saving bookmarks is deleted, it still wants to save in that folder even if it no longer exists. If the folder is still in Deleted the bookmarks will just end up there, and the dialog will be broken.
It used to be if Deleted was emptied, there would be no way to fix the problem without hacking the JSON files. I think now if the folder can't be found in Deleted either, it will fall back to saving in the root folder.
So check your Deleted bookmarks folder if they are there.
See also:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/64166/cannot-save-or-name-bookmarks/22 -
Bookmarking is possible directly by right clicking on the tab of the webpage, but defaults the save location to the bookmark bar without the option of assigning a bookmark folder location.
In case anyone is wondering, I've tried all of the "Bookmark" settings, and I also tried setting them back to their default state without any change.
- "Not everyone believes what you believe, Morpheus!"
- "My beliefs do not require them to..."
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I am able to "Right click" directly on the "Bookmark Bar" and save the page to the bookmark bar. Of course that's a slow way to do things, since I actually want to be able to bookmark and save directly into a subfolder or main folder of bookmarks.
- "Not everyone believes what you believe, Morpheus!"
- "My beliefs do not require them to..."
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@rdreammaker for me Ctrl+D adds bookmark with meta text of Vivaldi Forum Search page.
Had you enabled Settings → Bookmarks → Fetch Bookmark Data from Page Metadata
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@rdreammaker It's a known bug, that for some reason is not fixed even though it's one of the more common reports users make.
It happens when the last used folder used for saving bookmarks is deleted, it still wants to save in that folder even if it no longer exists. If the folder is still in Deleted the bookmarks will just end up there, and the dialog will be broken.
It used to be if Deleted was emptied, there would be no way to fix the problem without hacking the JSON files. I think now if the folder can't be found in Deleted either, it will fall back to saving in the root folder.
So check your Deleted bookmarks folder if they are there.
See also:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/64166/cannot-save-or-name-bookmarks/22 -
SOLVED:
Based on the link @Pathduck provided, I went into the Bookmarks tab under the Vivaldi Logo drop down menu and emptied the trash. That resolved the issue immediately.
Thank you for everyone's help troubleshooting this weird bug.
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Did not work for me.
I even deleted all the bookmarks by deleting the bookmarks file (an xml file) under the \Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default folder.
And restarted the browser.The "add bookmark" dialog is still empty and the textboxes are readonly.
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@jenniferjam Did you delete the Bookmarks file while the browser was still running? That's not going to work, it needs to be closed.
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@pathduck I tried that, but it did not work.
I closed the browser,
Deleted Bookmarks and Bookmarks.bak files
Restarted the browser
Observed no bookmarks in Bookmarks window pane
Opened a private window
Went to a random page
Tried to bookmark it.
Same problem, (see screenshot)version:
Vivaldi 4.3.2439.44 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 6baf3843e8bd4863b130aa31a9a16030b4372afd
OS Windows 10 Version 21H1 (Build 19043.1237)
JavaScript V8 9.4.146.21]
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@jenniferjam You never said anything about Private Windows. Such details are important...
Yes, I can confirm that bookmarking does not work in Private Windows in Vivaldi 4.3. In fact it seems it last worked in 4.1.
Please read:
carefully and report the bug to Vivaldi bugtracker
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Oh, now thats the same error description like the one I made in https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/523297
I reported the bug and got the number VB-83567
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@pathduck This bug here seems not to have anything to do with deleted folders (it appears even if one never has deleted any bookmark folders). Emptying the bookmark trash folder did not help.
Instead, this helped: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/531005
Or are there two separate bugs both concerning bookmarks?
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