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Otter Browser Forum / Bookmarks - Perl script to put folders first
using Otter v1.0.81 weekly 272 (WebKit-Backend 602.1), I successfully imported 5.000+ bookmarks/600+ folders from Opera (with quite a long history...), well organized into folders.
Usability in Otter was far from good - folders + bookmarks wildly mixed, blindly sorted by whatever column I chose.
So I wrote a Q&D Perl script to rearrange the bookmarks file to have folders put first (recursively).
Drawback: Sorting bookmarks in bookmarks panel will return the mixup - you will have to run the script again.(In Don't-Sort-Anything-mode, if you want to preserve your sort order.)
One can specify the source + target file (.xbel expected) and opt for (not) sorting folders and/or bookmarks separately.
Just run the script in a command prompt window to see how to run it.
Anybody interested in such an intermediate solution can find the script at
http://textix.de/perlix/bookmarks.arrange.zip
You'll have Perl installed to run the script.
Perl for Windows(free community edition) can be found at
https://www.activestate.com/products/activeperl/downloads/
Comments/bug reports are welcome.
Happy 1 of May,
Hartmut
@Otter team:
I'm not familiar with XML/XSL/Otters handling of both (yet):
Does "the engine" support XML stylesheets/XSL Transformations?
If so, I would delve into this stuff and try to write something useful.