Safari Bookmarks Question

I do not sync my mac's bookmarks with my iphone since I don't need all those on the phone. I've gradually added web sites that I want to follow in bookmarks. I know how to move individual ones up or down in the list and of course how to delete them but I can't figure out how to move a specific site into a new folder that I've added. The only way I've been able to do this is to tap on the bookmark to go to that site in Safari and then save it again, this time to the new folder I created and then delete the original entry. This is quite tedious. Does anyone know a convenient way to do this?
John

Go to your list of bookmarks and press edit. Click on the bookmark you wish to move this will take you to a new screen where you can choose which folder it should go into.

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Does everyone have any ideas? Thanks

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Hi, I am having a little bit of trouble with safari I need some help.
I downloaded opera to try out a different web browser... all was well.. Then I tried going back to safari, safari was still and still is my default browers. Anyway, I tried loging into myspace.com, to be exact, and it just sent me to the login page again. I tried login on opera, it worked.
I went to a friends mac and tried login on safari, it worked there. Yet on my mac it still does not work.
So, I deleted my cache, and reset safari, tried again still did not work. Maybe I should restart my computer?
I can get in on opera but that does not make sense.
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This question is answered somewhere... but I cannot seem to find the answer and I've seemingly read just about every article on the topic...
I updated my MacBook Pro to Yosemite last night which wiped out all of my Safari bookmarks (which I use daily) and restored bookmarks from 2 years ago. I tried to pull the bookmarks from my iPhone 6 (which were synced to the current and most up to date bookmarks) but somehow wiped those out and synced them with what is now on my MacBook (now not my iPhone and MacBook have the outdated bookmarks from 2 years ago).
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Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library/Safari/bookmarks.plist. Restore that from your backup.

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I resisted the iPhone when it came out but, being free with 02 in the UK, my resistance crumbled. I love it but am still flabbergasted by the lack of Tasks synchronisation. I had downloaded a simple 3rd party app, but this deleted all my tasks when it updated - of course, I didn't have a backup on my Mac.
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I don't have Windows so can't say whether this works with it or not - I imagine it should work using Safari for Windows.
1) On the Mac, go to 'Show all Bookmarks' in Safari.
2) Make a new Bookmarks folder anywhere. I put mine in the Bookmarks Bar, and called it 'To-Do'.
3) Populate it with bookmarks. I did this by dragging the current Safari URL into it, about 10 times.
4) Edit the names of the bookmarks, so as to leave it essentially - but not totally - blank. I renamed all the Bookmarks "." (period/full stop).
5) After the period on each bookmark, enter the task item. It will look like e.g. ". Car service before 14/8". Repeat as necessary. You now will have a list of bookmarks, each renamed as tasks.
6) Ensure that in iTunes, the iPhone is set to sync Safari bookmarks.
7) Sync.
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9) The tasks/bookmarks can be edited or deleted using the Edit function. (There's a surprise). You can of course delete the entire task when completed but this will necessitate re-populating the new folder with more bookmarks. I just delete the name of the task up to, but not including, the period. Using the Edit function, you can also re-arrange the order of your tasks/bookmarks.
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Thx! Linc Davis,
I anticipated you will contribute to my question
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I have checked this forum a few time recently, expecting to see people tearing their hair out over this issue... but there don't seem to be any recent posts about it, either here or in the iCloud forum, so maybe it's just me? (There are some older posts that refer to it, but it's only started being a real problem for me lately.)
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I have a lot of bookmarks, and they're all sorted into a hierarchy of folders. If I add new bookmarks - on either device - they show up almost instantly on the other device too. But they are always added at the top of their list for some reason, rather than the bottom like they used to be. This isn't really a problem, more an oddity. The real problem is with the sorting.
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2. organise bookmarks on Mac to how I want them, and export to html file
3. go back online & switch iCloud syncing back on on Mac
4. delete all bookmarks on both Mac and iPhone
5. keep repeating step 4 until bookmarks stop reappearing
6. re-import bookmarks on Mac from html file
7. switch iCloud syncing back on on iPhone
This strategy does solve the problem for a little while, but has two main drawbacks:
(a) the same problem recurs every time I add any new bookmarks
(b) the iPhone bookmarks take ages to reappear, and when they do they're all out of order (and not in folders - the folders are there, but they're all empty and the bookmarks are loose in a random order)
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All of a sudden, my Safari bookmarks look weird: all bookmarks seem to be there, but all Folders, in which they had been gathered over the past years, are empty. In other words, I think I lost all the structure that the bookmarks had.
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~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
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My iPhone and MacBookPro Lion sync my Safari bookmarks perfectly. I just don't know how it does it? Cannot find anything online that discusses it. I know iCloud doe smy contacts, calenar, etc but doe snot appear to do Safara bookmarks.

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But I think it would be easier to go to your gallery (on the web not iphoto) click on the video/album you want to share and at the top near the center click on "tell a friend"
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-MobileMe-Features-in-iCloud/165371700211982
http://www.change.org/petitions/apple-inc-keep-mobileme-sync-services-photo-gall ery-idisk-in-icloud
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Safari Bookmarks won't Save???

When I save my safari bookmarks they save until I quit safari and reboot it. When I reboot it all of the bookmarks are gone. This happens every time I try. I am running Safari 6.0.2. Thanks for the Help!!

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Why are Safari bookmarks taking the place of Firefox bookmarks on my Macbook.

I installed Mozilla Firefox on my Macbook. My Safari bookmarks have populated where my Firefox bookmarks should be and my Sync account exports no Firefox bookmarks. Can anyone help me with this problem? I have uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox. Still the Safari bookmarks and Sync is doing nothing.

As soon as I submitted this question, I noticed the Firefox bookmarks toolbar was suddenly populated my Safari bookmarks from my Macbook Air. The Sync account on my Mac had exported my Safari bookmarks to my Desktop PC. I freaked out and then restored my bookmarks from >Library>Import and Backup. I have close to 1000 bookmarks that I have saved. I am moving and need to pack away my PC and I will only have use of my Macbook. And I rely heavily on my Firefox bookmarks for research. Thank you anyone for helping me figure out why my Safari bookmarks have overrode my Firefox Sync account and toolbar.

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Here are the complete instructions to get your Firefox bookmarks into Safari, and to get them to replace the ones you have in Safari. This is useful for people who, on their computer, do not use Safari, and only use Firefox, but need their Firefox bookmarks easily accessible on their phone (without having to use the Firefox Home App). This will allow your Firefox bookmarks to get synched onto your iPhone's Safari App. Only thing I haven't figured out is how to automatically make this happen, so Safari bookmarks continuously update with changes in the Firefox bookmarks.
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http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-bookmarks-safari
The only thing missing in that link is: How do we now get our bookmarks from Firefox to replace the ones in Safari? We want our Bookmark Toolbar in Safari to be the same as the one in Firefox, and the Bookmarks Menu as well.
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