This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

How do I combine two separate Bookmarks lists?

glenthecomputerguy2
glenthecomputerguy2
more options

Under View -> Sidebar -> Bookmarks there exists a L-O-N-G list of folders and individual site bookmarks.

There is ONE ENTRY for "Bookmarks Menu" and following that are TWO independent lists of one set of Folders and individual bookmarks, THEN a SECOND set of Folders is followed by another list of individual bookmarks. Neither of these sets' entries are duplicates of the other.

How can I merge the two of them so that I have one set of FOLDERS followed by one set of INDIVIDUAL Bookmarks - so that I can sort the entire list alphabetically?

Currently, when I Right-Click on the "Bookmarks Menu" I am shown options that include the "Sort by Name" choice. When I choose "Sort by Name" *ONLY* the first set of FOLDERS & INDIVIDUAL bookmark entries become sorted alphabetically.

Ideally I'd like to have BOTH lists be merged and sorted.

How this happened (the existence of two sets of FOLDERS & INDIVIDUAL bookmark lists) I do not know.

Your help, anyone's help, is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Under View -> Sidebar -> Bookmarks there exists a L-O-N-G list of folders and individual site bookmarks. There is ONE ENTRY for "Bookmarks Menu" and following that are TWO independent lists of one set of Folders and individual bookmarks, THEN a SECOND set of Folders is followed by another list of individual bookmarks. Neither of these sets' entries are duplicates of the other. How can I merge the two of them so that I have one set of FOLDERS followed by one set of INDIVIDUAL Bookmarks - so that I can sort the entire list alphabetically? Currently, when I Right-Click on the "Bookmarks Menu" I am shown options that include the "Sort by Name" choice. When I choose "Sort by Name" *ONLY* the first set of FOLDERS & INDIVIDUAL bookmark entries become sorted alphabetically. Ideally I'd like to have BOTH lists be merged and sorted. How this happened (the existence of two sets of FOLDERS & INDIVIDUAL bookmark lists) I do not know. Your help, anyone's help, is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Chosen solution

If you sort the Bookmarks Menu folder, all the bookmarks below that will be sorted as far as a Separator - a horizontal line. Delete the Separators to sort everything.

Read this answer in context 👍 1

All Replies (4)

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
  • Moderator
more options

Chosen Solution

If you sort the Bookmarks Menu folder, all the bookmarks below that will be sorted as far as a Separator - a horizontal line. Delete the Separators to sort everything.

glenthecomputerguy2
glenthecomputerguy2 Question owner
more options

Well, Mr Edmeister, deleting the horizontal line did solve the problem.

Now, I would not have thought that that horizontal line was user-accessible.

A follow-up question, if you will: Is there a place on the computer wherein I can manually access the Bookmarks (like in I.E. one can access the "Favorites" folder) so that I can display the list, open folders and compare them - using two separate windows for comparison - to tidy up this gargantuan mess ... er, I mean "list" ??? =8-)

Thanks for your instantaneous-like correct & helpful response!!!

GlentheComputerGuy2

John99
John99
more options

What you can do is use the library. That has a tree view on one side and the detail on the other. Use Bookmarks -> Organise bookmarks (wording may vary, ? - show all bookmarks ? )

You are able to drag and drop or copy and paste folders, and select lists of bookmarks using keyboard shortcut Ctrl +A

The bookmarks are stored in a sqlite database you will normally work with them in firefox, or using a firefox extension they are not stored as files in folders

For instance to sort two folders quickly into one. using the firefox bookmark library If you

  1. create a 2 new folders named say unsorted-one and sorted-two
  2. copy both sets of bookmarks into the one folder 'unsorted-one'
  3. use the sort option to sort alphabetically the unsorted-one
  4. copy and past into sorted-two that is now in alpha order
  5. delete the old folders that you do not require, re-name remaining folder if required
glenthecomputerguy2
glenthecomputerguy2 Question owner
more options

Thank you, John99, I'll give that a try.

Glen...