Bookmarks bar shows extra (spurious) folder
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I am a power user of browsers, but new to Vivaldi.
I imported my bookmarks from Brave. Immediately, I spotted a problem: Vivaldi has added an extra empty folder under each of the nodes of the bookmark tree.
This extra folder has the same name as the containing folder. See the screenshot below, in which I have picked a folder named "Campaign" (encircled in red).
Vivaldi has created an empty folder in that folder, which is also called "Campaigns" (encircled in blue). [BUG]
Is this a bug or a useful feature?
I am unable to find an explanation anywhere: at the forum, YouTube channel, etc.
Can anyone explain why such folders are added in Vivaldi, and is there a way to disable this?
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Forgot to mention that Vivaldi has done this for all the folders in the tree, at all levels.
For example, The Campaign folder has four subfolders: OSM, APR Objections EC, SBTF, etc.
Vivaldi has created a duplicate folder in each of these folders, and named it after its parent folder.
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@Raindrops1
Hi, iirc you are the first user report this, Vivaldi is updated to Chromium 110, Brave is on 109 at moment.
It is may better to export bookmarks in Brave to .html and import in Vivaldi from this file.
You can manually remove the actual bookmarks but it is better to completely remover the file "Bookmarks" in your profile folder.
You find the path in the Help > About menu.
At the next Vivaldi start it create a new clean bookmark file.
Delete all you don´t need, then import, the Brave bookmarks are imported in a folder "Imported".
Move them out of this folder where you want to have them.
It is not recommended to use the bookmark bar to manage bookmarks, use the bookmark panel or the page vivaldi://bookmarksCheers, mib
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Thanks for the help!
I followed these steps:
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In Vivaldi, pressed CTRL+B, deleted all the bookmarks and emptied the trash bin. Closed Vivaldi.
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Navigated to my profile folder and deleted both bookmark and bookmarks.bak files (I have all the bookmarks in the Brave anyway).
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Launched Brave, exported the bookmark as html
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Launched Vivaldi, and imported the html file using Bookmark manager.
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The entire list appeared cleanly in Vivaldi. There are no duplicate (spurious) folders now.
BTW I see all bookmark folders at the top level in the Bookmark manager (they did not appear as subdirectory in "Imported" folder, as is my experience with all browsers. Could this be because I had deleted the bookmark files in Step 2?)
P.S. I always manage the bookmarks using the bookmark manager in any browser. In Vivaldi, it's the vivaldi://bookmarks/ page.
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@Raindrops1
5. Fine
I had this in my test imports but with existing bookmarks, anyway it work.
There are many features in Vivaldi and some work quite different to other browser, if you have questions ask here in the forum.
There are many user here to help.Cheers, mib
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@Raindrops1 That is known and was a already reported in Vivaldi Bug Tracker.
VB-91166 "When import bookmark from chrome, there always appear an extra empty folder at subfolder " - Confirmed. -
Oops!
I always take utmost case to check if the issue is already reported. (No point in bloating the forum with duplicate posts!)
In this case too, I checked with a few synonyms, but didn't see anything.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused!
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@Raindrops1 said in Bookmarks bar shows extra (spurious) folder:
I always take utmost case to check if the issue is already reported
I only checked internal Vivaldi Bug Tracker and had not searched the forum
Sorry for the inconvenience caused!
No problem.
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@Raindrops1 Welcome in our Vivaldi Community
Enjoy browsing with Vivaldi.
Some useful links for you:
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Thanks a lot!
These are indeed useful for a power user like me.
I am discovering more and more features as I experiment with the UI and also read through these resources.
BTW this is one of the most active and supportive communities I have ever seen!
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@Raindrops1 Thanks for the flowers
