Duplicated bookmark detection / cleanup
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@killchain I'm definitely going to look at this in detail when I get a little time. I am also developing a bookmark management tool, so we could possibly help each other out with this.
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@bonetone Yeah, it would be cool
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@killchain BTW, I have not found any issues with duplicates being created from the sync process. And I've got over 80,000 unique bookmarks. I recently accidentally deleted a major folder, and to recover it I simply imported a recent exported html bookmarks file and then deduped. I had forgotten to turn off sync beforehand, and so I had like 160k bookmarks sync'ing between a few desktop and 2 Android Vivaldi instances.
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wont the extensions in the chrome store, meant for de-duplicating bookmarks, work in vivaldi? i am just a novice.
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@g-naveen I can't vouch for every single extension of course, but yes, at least several of them. I've used many over the years, and never ran into one that didn't work, but have settled on "Bookmarks clean up" as my tool of choice. I've used it to delete literally hundreds of thousands of bookmarks in total, possibly over a million by now. It makes it really easy to delete large numbers of duplicates without having to process each one individually, and it also has other features like merging duplicate folders, deleting empty folders, and processing your bookmarks library to find broken ones -- which it will allow you to delete easily again, separating them into groups by error. And of course you can choose folders to exclude from the processing.
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@bonetone said in Duplicated bookmark detection / cleanup:
"Bookmarks clean up"
Thanks for the reco. I hadn't thought of using an extension.
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@bonetone
"Bookmarks clean up" runs but it is not deleting duplicates. Instead it buts them into folders named Trash. I can see any way to empty the trash folder. I can't see any folders named Trash in Vivaldi's Bookmark Manager, just in Bookmarks clean up. -
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+1 please
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@Shoham This feature request is in the pipeline, which means the Vivaldi team will release this feature, but a date has not been set yet.
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@killchain "I'm working on a little utility that reads the bookmarks, throws out all the duplicates and outputs a new Bookmarks file. I'll share it when it's ready."
Hi, If you're still around, did you ever complete the bookmark - duplicate utility? I'd love to give it a shot, or find a recommendation for similar that works in Vivaldi's bookmarks. Sorry for dredging up a 5+ year old post -- I guess it shows the topic is still relevant though!
RyaminZ
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@ChuckBaggett There is a 'Trash' folder at the end of my bookmarks file in the Bookmarks Manager page, when it's seen in 'Tab' view. Then select any/all of the bookmarks in/under the Trash folder and just hit Delete. It's great for gathering them, reviewing and then disposing of them instead of a direct kill -- sometimes it helps catch and save an error....
