I tried a few things on my own and now I’m even more confused as to why this process has to be so freakin’ complicated. I’m thinking that all the folders I create from the dropdown are always subfolders, because when I try to create a new one it wants to know which folder to put it in. So last night from the dropdown I tried to create a bookmark for a knitting site, it allowed me to create a folder called “Crafts”, but wouldn’t allow me to create a subfolder for “knitting”. Instead it wanted to know which folder to put my “Crafts” folder into, and since it didn’t belong in any of my other folders I was forced to choose UNCATORGORIZED. I can understand a bookmark being UNCATAGORIZED, but why must I choose to put a folder into another folder – why can’t it just be a FOLDER?

Now from the dropdown, I can’t get to the Crafts folder unless I scroll down to the bottom of my alphabetized list of folders, hit MORE, then select the last item on the entire list called UNCATAGORIZED and then click the folder named “Crafts”.

So I go to my Bookmarks web page to try to move the “Crafts” folder out of UNCATAGORIZED and it’s already alphabetized correctly in the regular list – so I click on it, find the teeny, tiny little “create folder” at the very bottom of the page – don’t you think that feature deserves a more prominent location? Anyway, I create a subfolder called “knitting” and then move the “knitting” site into it. This was all done last night. The window, I’m using IE 7.0 with tabs, is still open from last night, and the changes I made have not shown up in MyY! toolbar. I still can’t get to the “Crafts” folder without going to the “UNCATAGORIZED” section at the very bottom of the list and the “knitting” subfolder is still not showing up. So I open up a new window, since repeatedly hitting “Refresh Toolbar” doesn’t refresh my bookmarks, and there is no “Refresh Bookmarks” button to hit, and going to the MyY! Bookmarks pages and making changes doesn’t reflect in an already open window… Sorry, where was I? Opening a new window, that should do it. Nope, Now I’m back to an old but very familiar problem of an empty list of bookmarks from the dropdown. COMPLETELY EMPTY. I wrote to Y! about this months ago, and again a few weeks ago. They sent me a long email with three paragraphs of unrelated excuses and then the very last paragraph explained that this too is a bug and the work around is to double click or several click the dropdown arrow and it will populate the bookmarks dropdown. Only that doesn’t work. My list is still empty.

So now I have two windows open, one with my bookmarks listed in the dropdown, but out of date and another with my bookmarks not appearing in the dropdown, all I get in that dropdown are the first four buttons starting with “save this page”, etc.

Any suggestions on what I’m doing wrong and how I can fix this?

Can I do it on the fly from the toolbar dropdown? Or do I have to go to the bookmarks web page? My old subfolders came over with the import, but now I can’t figure out how to make new ones – I’ve tried to do it both in the drop down on the Y! toolbar and from the web page. I did a search in help and of course, there was nothing there for sub folders. For example: I’d like to create a folder called “Crafts” and then within that make subfolders for “knitting”, “glass”, “kids”, etc, how do I do it?

Thanks,
-em

Long live Yahoo …!

Eddie

As for the save button — is this greyed out on the actual toolbar? And if so, are you using IE or Firefox, and what version of toolbar are you using? Also, make sure you’re logged in to the toolbar.

As an alternative, you can always use the bookmarklet instead. The directions are here:

http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/tools/showsave

Note that if you’re using IE, you may have security settings to content with, as IE thinks of this tool as a popup.

//nathan

No, the bookmarks weren’t in the uncategorized folder, but the Tools>Import tip did the trick! I’m amazed! Grateful! Wow. The bookmarks are back from limbo.

I hadn’t considered that approach because I thought my data would be ported over to the new interface automatically. In other words, isn’t having to import data from “Yahoo Bookmarks” to “Yahoo Bookmarks” a little unexpected? The possibility one might have to do that should be mentioned in the help section. (Though I’m sure the help section is run by an entirely different crew of people.)

Nonetheless, you’re the internet hero for the day. I appreciate your initiative to help someone.

Now, for your next trick, can you get the “Save” button working in the Save Bookmark popup window?

Otherwise, I’m pretty upbeat about the interface, especially the searching and tagging parts of it. Very useful stuff.

Lawrence

First, did you check in the uncategorized folder for missing bookmarks? They might be there, and just got a little disorganized.

Second, if they’re not in the uncategorized folder, go to our tools => import page and try importing again.

If all else fails, you can still access your old bookmarks from our UK site (I’ll talk to our team about maintaining this data on another domain, but for now, use UK):

http://uk.bookmarks.yahoo.com

There’s an export feature there you can use.

I would like to echo comments made above about bookmarks going missing, though in a different way. I use the latest version of firefox and the yahoo toolbar on Win XP. I don’t use Firefox local bookmarks at all. And I’m the only one with access to my computer.

Approximately Feb 21 or so, the migration to the new user interface erased all my bookmarks. Several years worth, in fact.

How do I know this? The version of the yahoo toolbar prior to the current one did not allow the creation of folders. I always had to visit bookmarks.yahoo.com to create a folder.

On Feb 21 or so (I remember because it happened right before I left on a long trip), I visited bookmarks.yahoo.com to add a folder. The new interface displayed only a couple of my folders, now empty. Everything else was gone. Hundreds of bookmarks had been erased.

I thought this was strange. The bookmarks still existed in my yahoo toolbar, which I refresh relatively frequently. I was concerned that the new interface might require me to input my old bookmarks one at a time.

But I decided to try refreshing my yahoo toolbar first. I thought maybe that would synchronize the data in my toolbar to the now blank bookmarks.yahoo.com.

Backing up the toolbar data locally isn’t an option of course, so I had to roll the dice.

Of course, the worst case happened. Instead of the toolbar data getting input to the website, the blank website data was written into my toolbar.

Alarmed, I updated the toolbar while hoping this was some kind of compatibility issue. I was only a version or two back. But the new toolbar version didn’t change the situation.

So now my data’s gone. Calling yahoo didn’t help much. They don’t have phone support for the bookmarks product.

Even with the new yahoo toolbar, with my setup, it’s impossible to add bookmarks. Despite Javascript enabled in firefox, the “save” button in the new bookmarks window is always grayed out. The cancel button works fine. I have to visit the website to add a bookmark, which is not convenient.

So as it is, the bookmarks/toolbar product doesn’t work for my XPSP2/FF2.0.02/toolbar 14020070112 combination.

Also, Yahoo erased years of my data.

Lawrence

Thanks

There is currently no way to revert to the old bookmarks.