Bookmark management in any browser is pretty terrible no matter if it’s Safari, Chrome, FireFox, or anything else. 

It seems for under 100 bookmarks you are O.K., but beyond that, massive failure. 

I too ran into the same issues as you. I am unaware of any way to collapse the list as you desire so you don’t have to scroll like a crazy person. 

I gave up!

I signed up for pinboard ( https://pinboard.in/ ). 

Just like browser bookmarks you have one click access to make a bookmark. You are taken to a page filled in with the title, the description as you would see it in a google search, and custom tags plus a read-later and a “secret” section.  When done, all enter able with the keyboard, at a minimum, just press return and the bookmark is saved, with ore-suggested tags if desired, and then returned right back to the page you were on before you clicked the bookmarklet that open pinboard. 

You can post your bookmarks publicly and they become a sort of social system, or set your Prefs to be private as I have done. 

Best change I ever made!

It took some effort to get my old bookmarks transferred, but there are tools to help. Pinboard also has global tag editing so you can import a folder of bookmarks, give them all a tag like “just imported”, then organize, delete, and add a few more tags. Then select all “just imported” tags and rename or delete that tag. 

You get search that searches tags, titles, descriptions, all editable. Your bookmarks are accessible on all devices. Mobile support is stellar. 

Cost – a one time fee for life. Export options abound — zero lock in. For around $10.00 you get a pretty amazing system with an owner that is responsive, technical, and has no issue admitting where they screwed up, how they are fixing it, etc.

Basically full transparency for a great product. 

There’s other offerings, x-Marks, plug-ins for Chrome — or anything that supports User-Scripts. Safari  is out of luck on User-Scripts. 

I think there is a demo. If not, $10.00 for life probably won’t kill you.

All folders from A-Z with subfolder where I have cataloged and include different bookmarks in each folder, are in a open mode, meaning you can see all the folders from A-Z and its subfolder in a open view. This is so irratating since I have over 1000 folders. The list is then very long and you get lost when scrolling down to choose the folder you want to save a bookmark in.

Is there anyone who know if and how you can open your bookmark list and that all folders are in a closed mode/view where you only see the main folders A-Z (like for example in Windows explorer where you see a “+” sign next to the closed folder.

Please help and best regards // alex.kjellberg@hotmail.se

If you’re ok with some loss of apps you should be fine. Since music sync has not been rolled out into iCloud as of yet, you won’t have any music collisions.

As long as you can find a clean backup, you are in good shape. If not, unless you have 1000′s of bookmarks, it shouldn’t be too hard to manually delete those Britany Soears tracks of your daughters account and keep them safe on yours.

Good luck.

It’s impossible Apple wasn’t aware this would be an issue. What you were doing is common. Most users never think about how user account segregation works. Nor should they have to. Apple simply shouldn’t have allowed account sharing of this nature, though at the time, I suspect they had no idea about the cloud and the user backlash would have been huge.

Instead the opted for a generous 5 authorizations per iTunes user. They fought hard for this with the record labels. But now with apps and the idea whether an app purchase has the license to be shared amongst others it’s more strict. Should a 60.00 GPS app be able to be authorized on an entire families Apple devices? Some may think yes, but in the real world you would be buying multiple GPS devices, one for each car.

It will take some time to straighten this all out. There still currently isn’t a way to even demo am app. You buy it, try it, hate it, and own it. This is unlike how software purchases have ever been, and I’m sure will change once the systems are in place to accomofate such trial versions.

I would still call Apple and explain your scenario. They can be rather generous and helpful when things that clearly weren’t intentionally your fault happen. Maybe they will toss you a gift card for the amount of your purchases. It’s not unheard of. But there’s no steadfast rule. It depends on the person you talk to and if there is any wiggle room in the policy.

If you have AppleCare or any device is under 12 months old, call in about that device. They will spend as many hours on the phone with you as it takes. Apple has been rated best customer service for years on end; it’s worth try.

( This was typed on a mobile device; please be gentle when critiquing my spelling and grammar. )

I think we may move to a yearly paid model where for a very small fee you get one on one email support for any problems within reason. 

I’ll try to answer your question in a limited form, but don’t want to confuse our users, none of whom have Lion yet. 

If I had to guess, do all the accounts share the same AppleID? This is the email/username/password you enter in to buy music, apps, books, movies, etc?

Since you mentioned “daughter” I’m assuming she is younger and probably doesn’t have a credit card. Because all Apple services need a credit card, AppleID account sharing can be common. 

Due to the record and movie companies restrictions on who can download what and how many times to each computer, the AppleID is the “key” to managing this. 

By using the same AppleID even on different user login accounts, what has happened to you will happen to others. 

Prior to iCloud this didn’t matter, but now there needs to be a way to distinguish one users purchases from another. Using the same AppleID appears to their system as if it’s the same person regardless of the number of user accounts and devices. 

To resolve it, I would start by disabling the cloud features in System Prefs on every user account. This should stop any further mixing of data.  Now you need to set up AppleID’s for each user. They probably can share the same credit card, but must use a unique email address and password. 

Hopefully, the bookmarks and other data are accurate somewhere. Maybe on the Mac, maybe on the mobile device, or if not, from a backup somewhere that you can restore. 

Somehow, you need to get a new AppleID for each user account and get the data back to how it was. This may mean doing the cleaning manually, which could be a pain, but will probably go faster than you might expect. 

Now, from within iTunes, look into the other accounts and de-authorize the initial AppleID accounts that are cussing pollution to each other. 

With that done, each account has a user account and an AppleID that are connected to each other but are distinctly their own. 

Turn back on the cloud featutres, and a sync should mirror your local data back up to the cloud and you are all set. 

So here’s the one downside, and it’s big. If your daughter bought games, music, movies, etc under your AppleID, she no longer has the permissions to use that media any longer. 

You, being the AppleID account holder under which all items were purchased, own all that media. You and only you have a license to use that media.  You are more than welcome to share it with her, just not outside of your account. 

This means re-buying everything for the other accounts, or playing a dance where you disable cloud, login with your AppleID on the other accounts, use the media you desire, when done, log-out, and log back in with the correct Apple-ID, and go about your day. 

Prior to the cloud you could authorize multiple machines. This can no longer work for the very reasons you are learning. 

A huge hassle. 

Apple has been known to delete an account of all purchases and allow you to re-download in special cases. But I believe you still have to remember what to download. This may be easier now that iTunes lists all past purchases in the purchase history. They aren’t obligated to, generally being as nice as possible when you talk to them goes a long way. 

That’s my suspician. If you have under 50.00 of purchases, I would probably write it off as a loss and re-download/buy again in the correct account. 

If its more, I would call Apple support and ask them if there is anything they can do. The number is 1-800-SOS-APPL

– Scott

If you press command-F on your keyboard it will bring up a “find” entry field labeled “search”. You can type “delete” in there which will in turn highlight all the times “delete” is mentioned on this page.

From there you can scroll through the results or press command -G to jump to the next occurance of the word you are searching for.

Are you syncing more than one iPod, iPad, or iPhone on the same account? Each users device will need their own account our bookmarks, mail, calendar items, and more will traverse down from the cloud on each device to the Mac, as well as to each others devices.

My new Safari problem is slow-loading of my home page when I open Safari (it’s Google, but it’s anything else if I do that first). Somehow I discovered that if I get rid of my History and then restart Safari, all is well. Are the two problems somehow related?

I was doing somewhat a similar task using text edit, title it for a purpose of research, leave it run open on the desktop to slide address off onto it.

This way I could also add related data/image to the list.

So I will make a TEMP folder as suggested and manage it.
Thanks
Phil
Mpls Mn

PS/
There are a few handicap’s using Safari bookmarks compared to MicroSoft.
MicroSoft bookmarks are permanent as a saved document folder, where as Safari a plist is fragile and can vaporize.

There’s no way to color the parent folder in Safari to speed through all the open folders.
For massive lists, best I’ve discovered is placing a star in front of parent folder

Alphabetize,
Apple needs an app to set a preference in Bookmarks to do this.
Cheers