Copying bookmarks and quotations

I'm writing a paper based on a ebook that I downloaded in PDF format. I'm using bookmarks to take notes, and I need to get my bookmarks into a text document somehow. I can't see any way to copy or export bookmarks. Any ideas? Also, I will need to quote from the book. When I try to copy a sentence, it sometimes works, but other times I get an error saying 'Permissions set by the publisher of this item restrict copying." What does this mean? Is there anyway to find out exactly what the restrictions are?

lvpacilio wrote:
Is there any (easy) way to copy my bookmarks and pictures to a new iMac?
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
Your bookmarks are in <yourhomefolder>/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist.
If your pictures are in iPhoto, they'll be in <yourhomefolder>/Pictures/iPhoto Library. That's a "package", not a normal folder.

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Profile is a folder where your Firefox store all of your information
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles
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*Firefox 10.0.x: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Clean_reinstall

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Hi,
You can try creating a [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles new profile], copy the '''bookmarkbackups''' folder from the old profile to the new and '''Restore''' a dated backup via Firefox '''Bookmarks''' ('''Alt''' + '''B''') > '''Import and Backup''' on the new profile.
To open the profile folder within Firefox: '''Help''' ('''Alt''' + '''H''') > '''Troubleshooting Information''' > '''Show Folder'''.
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder Firefox Profile Folder]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder & Files]
You can also try to [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems Reset Firefox] on the old (previous) profile via '''Help''' ('''Alt''' + '''H''') > '''Troubleshooting Information'''.

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* [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles Backup and Restore information from Firefox Profiles]
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Edited by: Mirella Russo on Feb 17, 2011 1:00 PM

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