My Simpy bookmarks were imported (already a week or two ago, actually) but I have some ... issues.

The date a bookmark was added by me originally has not been preserved. I can live with that, but it strikes me as a bit silly. (In fact my Simpy bookmarks were imported to Simpy when my first true love de.lirio.us died.)

Worse, though, is what happened to Simpy's tags. They are all imported as something like a literal !CDATA declaration. Have a look at this copy/paste of my current start page http://www.diigo.com/user/tripleee


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Tags: <tag ><![CDATA[agile]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[blog]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[development]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[erablog]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[iterative]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[quips]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[software]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[20060619-0123]] ><_tag > on 2009-04-13 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -Cached -About

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Tags: <tag ><![CDATA[03a]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[bookmarklet]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[browser]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[javascript]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[security]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[tool]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[usability]] ><_tag >, <tag ><![CDATA[20060619-0123]] ><_tag on 2009-04-13 and saved by 42 people -All Annotations (1) -Cached -About

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See what I mean? Each tag is embedded in "tag" tags and some weird ![CDATA[...]] stuff. Could this be fixed centrally, automatically, pretty please?

(Some of the copy/pasted stuff got even more weird when I edited this post. I tried to replace it all, but expect to have to edit this a few rounds more to figure out the erratic round-trip problems with angle brackets when editing.)

Bill Hooker wrote:
> Now my encruftulated tags show up in "my tags" -- sadly, although I can edit them, the edits don't "stick". That is, it seems to work, the message "tag changed to blahblah" appears -- but then searching for the de-crufted tag shows that the cruft is still there.
>
> For instance: I can edit the tag
>
> <![CDATA[*dosomething] ><_tag >
>
> to
>
> *dosomething
>
> but the edit is not permanently recorded -- after I hit save, I still have the crufty tag and don't have the new clean tag.

I edited several hundred tags and only some of them failed to stick. It seems that tag names which start with numbers will not stick, for example; but I'm not entirely sure if this is consistent. There is also a set which cannot be deleted, with somewhat similar features. Anyway, all things counted, I'm now stuck with only a handful of crufty tags. http://www.diigo.com/cloud/tripleee?alpha=&page=0&sort=1

What irks me is that these were produced by an automatic import which should obviously be fixed. In fact, I'd rather delete all my bookmarks and start over if the Simpy import could be fixed any time soon.

This was my second attempt at a Simpy import (hard to tell, of course; could be that the first one worked after all, and that the second did nothing -- but the lack of feedback for imports in progress is a separate issue which I have reported elsewhere IIRC) but my Blinklist bookmarks have still not been imported successfully, and I'm hesitant to try again if that has similar issues.

For what it's worth, all of my remaining cruft tags are gone now. I removed all of them more than once so it might simply be a matter of having waited long enough; or perhaps a gentle administrator had mercy on me behind the scenes. Anyway, sailing is good (and now I only have to worry about what mistakes I might have made when trying to sort out the cruft by hand -- some of it was less than obvious).

There is an alternative, although it's not as spiffy as the diigolet. I'm fine with using the "simple bookmarklet" if the alternative is to enable third-party cookies. http://blog.diigo.com/2008/06/27/tip-of-the-day-add-a-bookmark-on-site-diigo-simple-bookmarklet-now-available/

Graham Perrin wrote:
> era e, thanks! Before now I never used the Post to Diigo button,
> the extra good news is that it's good for PDF, too!

Still it would be useful if the Diigolet could be a bit more candid about what the problem is. I'm sure there are many users who turn off third-party cookies and are confused when the Diigolet doesn't work.

(Post redacted, sorry for any confusion.)

meganmangler wrote:

> In short, it would be immensely valuable to have some sort of
> "Transfer in progress" note on my Diigo account.

Seconded!

Very new user here. I signed up to days ago and tried to import my old bookmarks. I got an email saying that my bookmark import had finished, but I only see the bookmarks I have added by hand. Was the email in error? Did the import fail, or did the email get sent too early?

I started several imports, as I have had accounts on Simpy, BlinkList, and Magnolia, and never before got around to merging the old ones. The email didn't say which one it thought it had finished.