SillyDog701

[RB2D2]

This morning when I went to a Shockwave site to download a puzzle the screen went black and the machine rebooted. When I launched Netscape 7.2 all my bookmarks were gone! From the side bar and personal toolbar. Bookmarks.html in Explorer was size 1kb.

I restored bookmarks from a floppy backup (using Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks> Import), however the bookmarks on the Personal Toolbar were not restored and if I attempt to drag an icon from the address bar to the Personal Toolbar I get a "dink", no bookmark.

There is something definitely wrong with the Personal Tool Bar. It does nothing when I click on it but if I try to drag a bookmark to it, it objects with a "dink!" I have already uninstalled and reinstalled Netscape.

Please, can anyone help me fix it?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[Ramona]

Try this:

Click on: Bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks
Now click on: View

Highlight: "Personal Toolbar", you will see that "Set as Personal Toolbar folder" is grayed out.

Now:
Highlight any folder in the "Personal Toolbar"
Click: View
Select: Set as Personal Toolbar

Close Bookmark Manager
Reopen Bookmark Manager

Highlight: Personal Toolbar
Select: Set as Personal Toolbar folder
Close Bookmark Manager

Your Personal Toolbar should be viewable now.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

[PaulD]

1. I had NS 7.2 installed for a few months back when it came out. Three times it did this - wiped out some critical pointers when there was an unexpected shutdown. The first time my wife did as you did, and created a new profile. The recovery was prolonged (from another computer) since we didn't have a current backup. The other two times we caught it and salvaged before losing all. Three strikes and 7.2 was out; I reinstalled 7.1 and had no further recurrence. But note: there have been reports that 7.1 can do the same thing. Since then we've upgraded to the Firefox/Thunderbird combination; it/they doesn't have the same failure phenomenon.

2. I don't understand "drag an icon from the address bar to the Personal Toolbar". Perhaps this is a function that I'm not aware of. With the desired site in the address window, can you do a File Bookmark into the Personal Toolbar Folder?

3. If it continues to dink at you, you may designate any Bookmark file as the Personal Toolbar Folder. Go to Manage Bookmarks, click on the desired folder, View > Set as Personal Toolbar Folder.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

[RB2D2]

Thank you both! That worked great.



PaulD, you can grab a URL from the address bar and drag it to the Personal Toolbar and create a bookmark there. You can place it in between any bookmarks already there or at the end. You can also edit the bookmark to make the name shorter.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[PaulD]

Thank you. Old woofers CAN [l]earn new kibbles.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7