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Safari - sort bookmarks

Disappointed new user

Got a macbook pro last month, having become sick of Windows and laptops. It's lovely, but it's hard work! I thought Mac forums would be a great place to get help and one of my questions was the same as this thread. Yippee! So what insight do I get?

As I'm sadly finding out, many mac users live in a mac exclusive world and hate everything from the wider world of computing and sneer at those of us who come from planet PC.

This question was about an easy way to sort bookmarks into alphabetical order (not adding them, adding folders etc). Why was the question so hard to understand?

I don't have time to waste manually dragging 500+ bookmarks to the right order. Here in the real world we have computers to do that sort of mundane stuff for us quickly and efficiently! Mac should have this type of basic function but I am slowly realising that macs are missing lots of basic functions that the rest of the world take for granted. Macs are NOT perfect ... sorry to disappoint all of you Maccies! And for the record, just because a function exists in windows (like a basic function of sorting bookmarks by name) doesn't mean it is rubbish.

Thanks to the last post for being the most helpful ... now off to try and SORT my bookmarks!
 
Franciturci said:
Just to sort alphabetically your Safari bookmarks use the command line utility Sortosaurus:

http://homepage.mac.com/jameshoward/

It worked for me (Safari 4.0.3 on Snow Leopard).

I find it's much better than any $ solution (why should we pay for sorting bookmarks?).
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I have been looking for a simple solution to this issue and I have to agree this is the best and it only takes a few seconds.
Thanks again for the info.
Pete.
 
Sortosaurus

Thanks for letting me know about this great tool. This has always aggravated that there is not a simple to sort your bookmarks. This command line prompt is simple and quick!
 
I had safari sorter and it worked well after it was supposed to. then it finally quit, Then I copied all my book marks to a folder on my desk top then arranged by name. And that worked for a while. Now "Sortosaurus worked for me instantly. One click, & happiness." Thank you James Howard.
 
Sort bookmarks

I found the solution: uninstall the piece of **** and use chrome or IE8. If a browser can't do something o elemental i'm not wasting one more second on it.
Safari had to have been designed by some gov't dept.
 
Safari bookmarks

Franciturci said:
Just to sort alphabetically your Safari bookmarks use the command line utility Sortosaurus:

http://homepage.mac.com/jameshoward/

It worked for me (Safari 4.0.3 on Snow Leopard).

I find it's much better than any $ solution (why should we pay for sorting bookmarks?).
Click to expand...

Just wanted to thank you for this precious link! I tried such a long time to find a solution to that problem. This is a great ONE CLICK solution! :)
 
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