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Reviews for Bookmark Dupes

Bookmark Dupes by Martin Väth

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  • by Mach Fiver, 12 days ago
    WOW!!! Now why on earth would anyone ever want to delete all copies of anything that is duplicated? Why is that even an option? I assumed it would delete copies and leave one behind but mark all just deleted all copies. I have in the past used multiple browsers so bookmarks differ and every now and then I export import across them, (I'm fickle and easily swayed to switch a browser) which makes multiple copies of everything. Now close to 50k in bookmarks I thought I'd clean them up and this addon just wiped everything except for a couple hundred that weren't duped at all. If I had two copies it removed both of them. I could have just deleted all my bookmarks bar a few in way less time. Now I have to go remove the last few and a ton of empty folders and re import the mess again and find something that doesn't do what yours just did. Why is merging duplicate folders and bookmarks so dang hard? Well at least your addon didn't just freeze my browser like the one I tried on edge did even after i cancelled the operation I had to use task manager to close the thing

    Developer response

    posted 11 days ago
    The extension does what you tell it to: If you mark all and then press remove all marked it will of course remove all. (Why is "mark all" an option: There are dozens of marking options for selecting all but one in certain groups of dupes, and "mark all" is the one where you need to do the (de-)selection manually, typically one in each group.)

    If you removed too many bookmarks by mistake, it is normally not a problem: firefox keeps a copy of previous bookmarks. Just go to "Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks" and then under "Import and Backup -> Restore ->" there will pop up a list of automatic bookmark backups from which you can restore one.
  • by Mark45908, 4 months ago
    Take it Down
  • by What???, a year ago
    One star because it doesn't scan ALL your bookmarks (across different folders and subfolders). Even then, it's not detecting duplicate urls within the same folder (most of the time).

    In other words, you can have duplicate urls across many different folders but it won't detect them because it can only scan one bookmark folder at a time. There's no option to scan all folders.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    This claim is incorrect; all bookmarks are compared, of course, and folders have no influence at all to the comparison (in non-expert mode).

    If you intentionally want, you can trigger behavior similar to the one you described by using replacement rules in "Expert Mode". I assume that you had "Expert Mode" open when you looked for dupes; if you do that, all example rules from that mode are applied simultaneously which is probably never what you want.
  • by Kat, a year ago
  • by Borzlav, 4 years ago
    Worst ever. It has made a mess into my bookmarks in Firefox, putting all in a "dupe" file ; when I wrote it off, it drove most of my items into "Other bookmarks" in a complete disorder.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Presumably you selected "mark all" and then "move marked bookmarks to dupe".

    Note that firefox makes regular backups of your bookmarks: You can restore to a previous stage by opening "Bookmarks -> Show all bookmarks" and there "Import and Backup -> Restore".
  • by Firefox user 15411427, 4 years ago
    Installation aborted because the add-on appears to be corrupt.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Can you please be more precise what is corrupt? Have you downloaded the add-on from mozilla.org?
  • by Firefox user 15105584, 4 years ago
    This extension is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!! No sooner than I download it, I follow the instructions to the letter, and all I get is the instructions page of 'how to use this extension" I can't get anywhere with this extension!! Then I try the "support site", what a CROCK!! You have to SIGN UP for the gift hub account to even get into the support site, then there really doesn't seem to be any way to do THAT!! I can't get past the "create an account" page!! I may just have to go back to using Netscape or chrome!
  • by Firefox user 12753665, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 12536339, 5 years ago
    Hi, Martin,

    Unfortunately, I couldn't make the extension work.

    Alex

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    If you describe the problem in more detail, maybe I can help.
    However, I suggest to discuss this either by private mail or on the github bug page, since this medium here is not appropriate for a conversation with successive questions + answers.
  • by Firefox user 13835602, 6 years ago
    Tried to used this program it locked up every time I attempted to use.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Which platform do you use and which browser (exact version)?
    If possible, please write a bugreport on the github page which is more appropriate to discuss technical details.
  • by Firefox user 13616850, 6 years ago
    Most buttons dont work. Only "elect all" and "select none"

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    It is the first time that somebody reports such a problem; I was not able to reproduce it.

    Edit:

    Now bookmarkdupes 4.0 is out. Internally, this is a major internal rewrite, so it might have fixed your problem.

    If the problem should persist, I would appreciate if you open a bug on github (or if necessary write me an email) so that we can discuss technical details.
  • by AnotherPersona, 6 years ago
    I wanted this to work.. as I have over 8 thousand bookmarks (ridiculous). It loads and finds, but 3/4s of the drop down seems to to be.. gone? I assume there is something that is supposed to fill that space. Ho hum.
  • by jvandervleut, 6 years ago
    Lost most of my bookmarks... and DAMN I didn't back up first...*(&*%#

    #edit dec 4th 2017: I could get a backup and almost have all my (duplicate) bookmarks back.
    @Martin: I didn't press an unfortunate button combination. What I did was start the add on, select 'keep first, remove duplicate'and then pressed GO. I have almost 5000 bookmarks in total (dupes included), so the progression bar went by every 20%, until 100% was reached. It then took quite some minutes for Firefox to get up and running, only with just a fraction of the bookmarks that it supposed to have (should have been nearby 2500 left, which it didn't). So there's something with the amount of bookmarks that the add-on is limited to process....

    PS: If you want, I can contribute to your project and help translate to dutch

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Edit:

    There was an edit of the comment indicating that there is perhaps really a bug in bookmark-dupes (although so far, I was not able to produce the described problem in any testing and had no other such report.)

    Since I had switched off localization of bookmarkdupes' webpage (due to various problems) it seems that all related edits of this discussion got lost.

    For reasons like this, this is not a good medium for communication about a bug.

    Therefore, I opened https://github.com/vaeth/bookmarkdupes/issues/22 (but if you prefer we can also discuss instead by email).

    Translations are always welcome, of course. (Preferably by a pull request on github, but if you are not familiar with git, drop me a note and we will find another way.)