Bookmarks page goes kablooie!

Doug Harris dough at bou.shl.com
Tue Jun 7 08:27:27 PDT 1994


Damn, damn, damn.

Here's the way my starting pages were set up until yesterday:

	OmniWeb startingPages "OmniWeb:Start.html<tab>
		file:/Users/dough/Library/OmniWeb/Bookmarks.html"

I'd played with html and made my Bookmarks page look all nice with headers,  
<hr>'s, a thumbnail image for Dr. Fun, etc.  The problem was that the OmniWeb  
default start up page would always come up first and I'd have to go back to  
the root page to get to my page.

So, following instructions from a message that was posted yesterday, I used  
dwrite to reverse the order of these two pages.  Everything seemed  
fine...until this morning.

"Hmmm, if I look at the root page, the OmniWeb start page is now listed as my  
bookmark page... that's odd.  I wonder what happens if I add a page to my  
Bookmarks page using the menu item..."

Ack!  Look!  My Bookmarks.html file has only one entry in it and the original  
one which I spent so much time on went kablooie.  Disappeared.  No more.

(Now before anybody flames my personal habits, yes, I know that I probably  
should've made a copy of my file before I experimented, but it's early and I  
just wanted today's installment of Dr. Fun.  Besides, I should be able to get  
my file from our system backups.)

My point is that OmniWeb 0.6.2 can and will nuke your Bookmarks.html file if  
you confuse it.

doug


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