Bookmark Converter 3.2 - User Guide and FAQ

How to use Bookmark Converter

1. In the left box of the conversion tool, select the type and location of the bookmark collection that you want to convert into another type (i.e. you original bookmark collection). This is done by clicking the drop-down box, selecting the desired bookmark type, and then browsing to the bookmark collection (by using the controls that will appear).
   
   
2. In the right box of the conversion tool, select the type and location of the bookmark collection that you want to create (i.e. the collection that will be produced by the conversion process). This is done by clicking the drop-down box, selecting the desired bookmark type and then browsing to the bookmark collection target location (by using the controls that will appear).
   
   
3. If you want your bookmarks to also be sorted during the conversion, put a check in the "Sort bookmarks" checkbox by clicking it with your mouse. If sorting is enabled, you will also be able to setup how the bookmarks should be sorted, by clicking the "Setup" button to the right of the checkbox.
   
   
4. You are now ready to start the conversion process, and this is done by clicking the "Convert!" button in the bottom right part of the window. If this button is grayed out, it means that you have done something wrong in the steps above (e.g. not selecting a valid source bookmark collection).

1. Open up the synchronize tool, as described above.
2. Create a synchronization set (called "sync-set" from now on) for the browsers whose bookmarks you want to keep synchronized. You will do this by first clicking the "Add new" button, and in the window that will appear, you enter a name for the synchronization set and select all the bookmark collections that should be included in it. For this example, let's say you have three browsers whose bookmarks you want to keep in sync, one Netscape, one Internet Explorer and one Opera.
3. After pressing the ok button in the sync-set creation window, you will be asked to confirm that all the bookmark collections you have specified will be processed with an initial merge. You must answer yes to be able to proceed.
4. Now you will see the name of the sync-set you just created being present in the list, and if you select it, the bookmark collections included in it will be displayed at the bottom of the window. You can also at any time edit the sync-set by selecting it in the list and pressing the "Edit" button, which will bring up the same window that you used to create it in step 2 above.
5. For each sync-set you create, you can use the three checkboxes to select if the bookmark collections in it should be synchronized every time you start your computer, if they should also be sorted while being synchronized, and if the process should be completely invisible ("silent mode", otherwise it will display a small progress gauge on the screen during the operation).
6. If you choose to synchronize the bookmarks on every system boot (which is highly recommended), everything will work automatically from now on. Each time you reboot your computer, the bookmarks in all the collections will be fully synchronized. If you have deleted a bookmark in one of the collections it will be deleted in all of them, if you have added a bookmark in one of the collections it will be added in all of them, and if you have moved a bookmark in one of the collections, it will be identically moved in all of them. You can also at any time force a synchronization to be performed, simply by selecting the sync-set from the list and then pressing the "synchronize now" button.