Making Folders on Bookmarks Bar?

We noticed that some of the bookmarks on our Safari 2.0.1 bookmarks bar have a little 'down arrow' next to them. If you click on it you'll see more than one thing listed under that bookmark, essentially making the bookmark act like a folder.
How do you make one of these?
We've tried right clicking on a bookmark and dragging something to an existing bookmark, but no joy.

MyMac8MyPC, from the Bookmarks menu, select Show All Bookmarks. Then from the Collections sidebar on the left, select Bootmarks Bar. Then click the "+" below the blue and white striped window to the right. This will create an untitled folder which you can name and then select Hide All Bookmarks. The newly named folder should show up in the Bookmarks Bar. When you go to a site that you want to add to the new folder in the Bookmarks Bar, select Add Bookmark and then select the new folder from the list in Bookmarks Bar.

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My apologies if this has already been asked (I couldn't find anything).
Is it possible or is there a plugin that will allow folders in the bookmark bar to act like spring loaded finder folders?
For example I have an Apple folder in my bookmarks bar which contains a number of sub-folders like hardware, software etc. If I drag and drop an address onto the Apple folder it just ends up in that folder, I would like to be able to hover over Apple and the subfolders become visible.
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Tom, I've never thought about that before. However, when you wish to bookmark a page, if you click on the Add Bookmark button i.e. the "+" sign/button next to the url/address window, you get a drop-down menu which shows the geometry of all the nested folders in your bookmark collection. It's just a simple case of scrolling down to the appropriate folder.
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Here's one way of doing it. Assuming here you've got your Menu bar up.
First go "Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks".
In the left-hand pane, select "Bookmarks Bar" as per the following screenshot:
Now over in the right-hand pane (below the cover flow of your history), Select and expand the folder in the bookmarks bar that you want to put the new folder in. For example:
Now go "Bookmarks > Add Bookmark Folder". That should drop an untitled folder inside the folder you had selected-and-open. For example:
Rename the folder as you please, and drag and drop bookmarks (or other folders containing bookmarks) within the new folder as you please.

Middle-click bookmarks from folders in bookmarks bar to open in tab ?

A quick google search showed a number of posts touting this worked in Safari 3.x on Windows. But I'm finding it doesn't work on the current Safari 4.x. I can middle-click a bookmark on the bookmarks bar to open in a tab, but not if the bookmark is in a folder on the bookmarks bar.

With 50 views in a couple days I have to assume other people have this problem too. Can anyone chime in her with either a me too or a works for me? This works on the Mac version of Safari, so one would think it should work on Windows too. But all my Windows installations exhibit the same behavior.

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I synced my bookmarks with IE for the first time and then I decided to sync Safari bookmarks which was successful but now I am left with two empty and useless folders called "Bookmarks Bar" from Safari and "Bookmarks Menu" from IE which I am unable to delete or move to the bottom of the Bookmarks menu. This is inconvenient, unsightly and takes up space.
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It's not an error, per se. These are default bookmark folders on in Safari, and thus are transferred to the iPhone when you sync Safari bookmarks. If you are still syncing Safari bookmarks, they will always be there, and you cannot alter that. If you no longer want to sync Safari bookmarks, are the folders in your IE bookmarks? If so, delete them from there. Then, in iTunes in the Info tab (with the iPhone connected and selected in the devices list), scroll down to Advanced Options and check the box to replace bookmarks, then click Apply.

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My Bookmarks sync fine between my iPhone and iPad, except that iCloud keeps creating "Bookmark Bar" folders. They are driving me crazy because I cannot delete OR move them out of the way.
There are now SIX unused (empty) "Bookmark Bar" folders making it rediculously cumbersome when I try to scroll down to my actual Bookmarks.
PLEASE, oh PLEASE HELP! How can I remove all those "Bookmark Bar" folders?
I am on iPad2 and iPhone4 with the latest iOS. I tried turning iCloud "Sync Bookmarks" off, rebooting both devices, and turning Sync back on. That seems to be when iCloud wants to add even more empty "Bookmark Bar" folders.
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Ok, so...ARGH!!! The solution was SO SIMPLE that I can't believe it took me this long to figure it out.
Long story short: I was able to delete the "Bookmarks Bar" folders (15 in all!) from my PC (Win7). AND, the process did NOT delete all my existing iDevice Bookmarks (YAY!).
So, in case anyone else stumbles upon this thread with the same issue:
Open iCloud on your PC
Turn on option to sync bookmarks with IE
('yes' to merge bookmarks- This step does not delete your existing bookmarks on your iDevices)
Make sure your iDevices are set to sync bookmarks in iCloud.
Next, open your "Favorites" in IE on your PC and right-click/delete all "Bookmarks Bar" folders.
Voila! Done! No more Bookmarks BarS...although there will be ONE that will not go away. One is better than 15:)

Nested folders problem in Bookmarks Bar

When I want to save a web page to my bookmark bar, I hit "command-D" and then choose the folder I want the page to reside in. No problems there.
However, I have about 100 folders in my Bookmarks Bar, many of them with nested folders inside, and some of those with nested folders in them as well. Hitting "command-D" shows me all of the folders, *but all open*, ie showing all of the nested folders as well, thus making it a very time consuming process to find the folder I want.
I seem to remember in an earlier (much earlier?) version of Safari, it would just show me the main folders, with a "►" next to them, thus making it very easy to scan the main folders before delving into the nested folders. Many other programs (Default Folder X) manage this without any problem at all, making it very easy to scroll down, then across etc until you find the place you want.
Is there any way to make Safari "close" the main folders, and make my life much easier?
I hope my description is clear!
Thank you.

KS, there is no triangle to click. That's the problem.
Anyhow, I just tried this on an old Powerbook running Mac OS 10.4 Tiger and Safari 4.1. It does not have disclosure triangles in this menu either. So, this is definitely nothing new. Although I haven't thought this through completely, I believe this is the only way that a menu can behave, behave when you click a menu item, its action is executed. There can be only one action, which in this case is to place the bookmark. If there were a disclosure triangle, expanding or collapsing the folder would be a different action.
This behavior is built into Safari. It could possibly be modified by a extension, or more likely, a hack. I'd need to do a little research. But the behavior you see is definitely as Apple designed it. (Terminology: An "extension" is a "legal" hack which uses API provided by Apple. A "hack" uses reverse-engineered, private API and is not sanctioned by Apple.)
Disclosure triangles, the things you can click to expand or collapse a folder, or more generally, a "container item", are available in outline views, such as in Safari's Show All Bookmarks window. I don't recall ever seeing one in a menu. If Default Folder does it, I'd like to see a screenshot.
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San José, CA USA

In Firefox4, can I lose the folder icons from the Bookmarks Bar while keeping icons everywhere else (because the folder icons are superfluous and extend the horizontal list of bookmark folders beyond the width of the window)?

I've just installed Firefox4 for Mac (OS 10.6.7) and can no longer see all my bookmark folders at once across the top -- because the folder icons make the Bookmarks Bar too wide. Yet, I like the icons on the other bars, so I don't want to turn them off globally. Is there a way to just lose the folder icons -- which don't appear to serve a purpose anyway?

Small correction to original post. Machine is an iMac 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. (I was at home when I made the first post.) But the bookmarks menu behavior still exists today and FF 5 is essentially unusable.
System details next to the post are not for machine with the bug in question.
Found a copy of FF4 to use until a solution is found. Turned off automatic updates to preserve this version.

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Is it possible to make folders in the bookmarks bar to open "like other menus" i.e. when you move your mouse to the next folder the old one closes and the new one opens. Now I have to click the new menufolder twice. The first click closes the old one and the second opens the new one.

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I have all of my bookmarks in Safari on my desktop (OS X 10.7.5) via the Bookmark BAR - I have them organized in folders for ease, and I like it that way.
When I use iCloud to sync Bookmarks to my iOS devices (iPad Retina and iPod Touch, latest iOS), the result is that I end up with a series of bookmark folders in the "Bookmark Menu (not the Bookmark Bar) that duplicates bookmarks and folders that I have on my iMac desktop in the Bookmark Bar.
Problem 1. I don't want them in the Bookmark Menu on my iOS devices, I want them in the Bookmark Bar so I can use them from the bar.
Problem 2. Even if I wanted to use what ends up on my iOS devices, I can't because none of the bookmarks in the folders are there, only a series of folders. The only actual bookmarks that are on my iOS devices are those that are not in folders - and again, those few are in the Bookmark Menu, not the Bookmark Bar.
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So what you are saying is that if I save a url on my desktop Mac as a Boomark Bar item, it SHOULd sync to the Bookmark Bar on my iOS devices? That was the issue I was complaining about. It was not. Please confirm that because I am only assuming that from your last paragraph above.
As for the whole duplicate thing, from my searching the forums today I realize that is a common "issue" people are complaining about - that their bookmark bar items are also showing in the bookmark menu. I think that is what you were referring to.
So I did try your set of steps in your last paragraph above and they did not work. In fact, nothing seemed to sync except the test Boomark Bar folder addition I made on my iPad which synced to my iPod touch. Other than that, nothing else synced from my Desktop - neither in my Bookmark Bar or my Boomark Menu.
Posbily related - Unforntunately, becasue I was having this problem earlier and also had noticed the whole issue with the fact I had all of the same folders on my Desktop Bookmark Menu as I had in my Desktop Bar - I tried to solve that issue by deleting all of the items under my Bookmark Menu, and now I do not have anything in that folder except:
Recent Tags
Recently Bookmarked
Get Bookmark Add-ons
Feeds (folder with items in it)
Unsorted Bookmarks (folder empty)
Is that part of my problem now?
Thanks,

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Hi all,
I synched my Safari Bookmarks...really didn't need to and now I don't want these "Bookmarks Bar" and "Bookmarks Menu" folders. Why can't I delete them?
Thanks,
Ben

Both of these menus can be deleted from Safari's iPhone bookmarks menu but the process is a little involved and requires the use of Property List Editor for the Developer Tools package.
If you have this, chances are you already know what to do, but otherwise you will need to download the Developer Tools package from Apple (and even on a fast connection) it is probably quicker to reload your iPhone from scratch.
But just in case:
1a) Quit Safari on your computer.
1b) with you iPhone sync'd to iTunes, unselect the sync automatically box. (You can go back later, just do it for now.)
2) Navigate to ~/Library/Safari/Booksmarks.plist file.
3) Make a copy and rename it Bookmarks(original).plist. This is your backup file in case things go wrong.
4) Launch Safari.
5) Create a new folder called Bookmarks, or whatever you want your top level Bookmarks folder to be on your iPhone.
6) Drag all folders and urls that you want for you iPhone into this folder.
7) Arrange it the way that you want. You can also do this on the iPhone, but it is easier to do it here, than on the phone.
8) QUIT SAFARI AND DO NOT RELAUNCH IT. (This is important, because you are going to edit this file to remove those folders and Safari will recreate them if you launch it.)
9) Open your Bookmarks.plist file in the Property List Editor.
10) Navigate to the Children arrow and expand.
11) Select the "0" item and delete (That is the Bookmarks bar, or Bookmarksbar menu that Safari hard codes to the bookmarks list)
12) Select the "1" item and also delete (This is the BookmarksMenu item)
13) If you poke around in this file, you will notice the History, RSS feeds, and your top level menu that you created in #5.
14) Save the modifications and close the Bookmarks.plist file, (save changes if prompted).
15) DO NOT LAUNCH SAFARI (just a reminder)
16) Launch iTunes and select the iPhone, DO NOT SYNC IT YET.
17) Select the info tab, and scroll to the Web Browser section and select the "Sync Safari bookmarks" checkbox.
18) Scroll to the Advanced section and select the "Bookmarks" checkbox.
19) Click "Apply" and "Sync"
20) wait for sync to complete.
21) remove iPhone from cradle and check your Safari bookmarks. You should be good to go with the iPhone's Safari and its bookmarks, however you are not done yet.
22) THIS IS IMPORTANT. For this modification to last, you have to go back to iTunes.
23) reinstall the iPhone on the cradle, AGAIN DO NOT SYNC.
24) go back to the "Sync Safari bookmarks" checkbox and unselect it. Then click the "Apply" button again. This will prevent Safari on your computer from syncing to Safari on your iPhone. If you ever do, with this box checked, those two pesky menus will reappear.
25) You are done.
Hope this helped,
zac

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When I book mark this website to the Folder called "TV Shows" that is on the menu bar, it does not appear in the drop-down menu when I select it. But then when I go to the "COLLECTIONS and BOOKMARKS" section and I look at the Folder called TV shows, it appears therein. But still, even when it appears in the folder in this view, and I go to select the drop-down menu again on the Menu Bar, it still does not appear at all. This is the website I was attempting to bookmark and to label as "HEROES". http://www.tv.com/heroes/show/17552/episode.html (I just updated to OSX 10.5.6 from OSX 10.5.5). I am running a Macbook Duo Core 2 gigahertz with 2 gigs of ram.
I closed Safari and reopened it hoping the problem would fix itself. But after doing that it still does not appear in the drop-down menu called TV Shows on the Menu Bar.
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The only way I was able to update the drop-down menu bookmark folders on the Bookmark Bar was to drag-and-drop them one at a time from the "COLLECTIONS and BOOKMARKS" view.
Is it just me or is this a ******** way of updating bookmarks?
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Thanks a lot. Ive spent hours trying to find this. Not very intuitive, and I've been using Macs for twenty years! I tried redoing my bookmarks on my MacBook after I posed the question and that did it, but I'm glad to know how to do it on the iPad. Several sites tell people that bookmark menu folders cannot be added in iOS. Have a great day. Rick

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I seem to have accidently deleted a folder from my bookmarks bar. Is there any way to find it??
Also, is there any way to 'lock' the book marks bar so that I can accidently click and delete a folder again?
Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions
When you delete a folder from the bookmarks.plist file, regardless of the collections group (in this case your Bookmarks Bar), it's unfortunately gone. Also, these folders cannot be "locked".
Also, there is no easy way to "search" for the bookmarks in Safari Panther. That feature came along in Safari Tiger via the Spotlight panel. If you open the Bookmarks.plist file in BBEdit (ought to occur by default), you can open a find panel (command key + F), then type the name of a bookmark or folder in the panel. If it's still in the file, it will show up in the search.
With that said, do you have on any form of external media a copy of the Bookmarks.plist file found in the Safari folder? Or any Bookmark file for another browser, which might have the same folder? If you do, then you can import the file back into Safari. If you have a copy, let me know if you need help with the import.
While I have backup on an external drive (back up every few days or so), I acquired the habit of going to my Safari folder in the Library at the beginning of the day and making a copy of my Safari bookmarks file (Apple Key + D), removing the previous day's copy. A while back I lost a bunch of bookmarks, which served as an incentive for this habit. Access to the folder is easy as I have the folder on my Finder's sidebar.
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