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Import from Internet Explorer

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:04:18 -0000

bookmarks |favorites |import |internet explorer | post by brettelockyer on 2008-10-06

Import from Explorer
post by brettelockyer on 2008-10-06
Well, you could be a little more elaborate with your questions or requests.

Anyway, I suppose what you mean is whether or how bookmarks (favorites) can be imported from Internet Explorer.

Importing bookmarks from Internet Explorer (IE) is possible in two ways:

1) If you don't have the Diigo toolbar for IE installed, you can export your favorites from IE as a bookmark.htm file (which is an older Netscape/Firefox format). Then, in Diigo go to "Import bookmarks" - > "Import from browser" and select the exported file for import.

2) If you have the Diigo toolbar for IE, it is even easier: In the toolbar, click on the Diigo button, in the appearing drop-down menu click on "Import Bookmarks ...", then just select all the favorites/bookmarks that you would like to import into Diigo and confirm. That's it.
post by ollitolli on 2008-10-06

Importing bookmarks -- how long should it take?

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:45:25 -0000

bookmarks |duration |import | post by leepotts on 2008-07-19

I saw that some delay in importing bookmarks via HTML is to be expected but I was wondering what was the typical delay. I sent in the request about 24 hours ago. Did something go wrong and should I resubmit it, or is this not unusual?

Thanks!
post by leepotts on 2008-07-19
I put in the request Friday afternoon and the bookmarks still haven't shown up on my list. Should I resubmit?

Lee Potts wrote:
> I saw that some delay in importing bookmarks via HTML is to be expected but I was wondering what was the typical delay. I sent in the request about 24 hours ago. Did something go wrong and should I resubmit it, or is this not unusual?
>
> Thanks!
post by leepotts on 2008-07-21
Absolutely. It definitely shouldn't take that long. That is not normal. Something probably went wrong. Since Diigo prevents duplicate bookmarks, there is nothing to worry about when you resubmit.

Lee Potts wrote:
> I put in the request Friday afternoon and the bookmarks still haven't shown up on my list. Should I resubmit?
post by ollitolli on 2008-07-21
Thanks Oliver. What would be a more typical wait time?

Oliver S. wrote:
> Absolutely. It definitely shouldn't take that long. That is not normal. Something probably went wrong. Since Diigo prevents duplicate bookmarks, there is nothing to worry about when you resubmit.
>
> Lee Potts wrote:
> > I put in the request Friday afternoon and the bookmarks still haven't shown up on my list. Should I resubmit?
post by leepotts on 2008-07-21
Lee Potts wrote:
> Thanks Oliver. What would be a more typical wait time?

In my experience, not more than a couple of minutes (unless there are temporary technical difficulties). Of course, it also depends on the number of bookmarks that you are importing.
post by ollitolli on 2008-07-21
I'm having the same problem. I exported from Flock browser as a HTML bookmark list. But cannot find anywhere on Diigo whether it even accepts HTML. Also, the Import form the Diigo toolbar doesn't recognize Flock bookmarks. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

Oliver S. wrote:
> Lee Potts wrote:
> > Thanks Oliver. What would be a more typical wait time?
>
> In my experience, not more than a couple of minutes (unless there are temporary technical difficulties). Of course, it also depends on the number of bookmarks that you are importing.
post by mardisbagley on 2008-07-21
Well i have a work around... I imported my bookmarks/favorites into Firefox, then imported into Diigo via the toolbar, but it didn't keep the folder structure, so there will be hours and hours of organizing. Please let me know if there is a way to maintain the folder structure on import.
Thanks.
Mardis

mardis bagley wrote:
> I'm having the same problem. I exported from Flock browser as a HTML bookmark list. But cannot find anywhere on Diigo whether it even accepts HTML. Also, the Import form the Diigo toolbar doesn't recognize Flock bookmarks. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.
>
>
> Oliver S. wrote:
> > Lee Potts wrote:
> > > Thanks Oliver. What would be a more typical wait time?
> >
> > In my experience, not more than a couple of minutes (unless there are temporary technical difficulties). Of course, it also depends on the number of bookmarks that you are importing.
post by mardisbagley on 2008-07-21
Well I only have 47 items. I've tried twice now, once Friday and once this afternoon and none have shown up yet.

Oliver S. wrote:
> Lee Potts wrote:
> > Thanks Oliver. What would be a more typical wait time?
>
> In my experience, not more than a couple of minutes (unless there are temporary technical difficulties). Of course, it also depends on the number of bookmarks that you are importing.
post by leepotts on 2008-07-22
I tried a third time last night at home. Is there anywhere here to officially report a problem? I don't seem to be attracting the attention of the site admins on this forum.

Lee Potts wrote:
> Well I only have 47 items. I've tried twice now, once Friday and once this afternoon and none have shown up yet.
>
>
> Oliver S. wrote:
> > Lee Potts wrote:
> > > Thanks Oliver. What would be a more typical wait time?
> >
> > In my experience, not more than a couple of minutes (unless there are temporary technical difficulties). Of course, it also depends on the number of bookmarks that you are importing.
post by leepotts on 2008-07-22
I am just a Diigo user myself, so I can't tell whether there are currently any technical problems.

Right now, I can't test Diigo but when I am back home I could try to reproduce your problem. It would help if you could tell me which web browser you use (including the version number).

Another thing: You probably tried to import your bookmarks in HTML format via the web interface.
Have you already tried to import your bookmarks with the Diigo toolbar?
If you don't like to permanently install the toolbar, you could use a portable version of Mozilla Firefox and install it there. It works with the portable version, too.
I know this would not be a solution to the original problem but it might do as a workaround for now.
post by ollitolli on 2008-07-22
Thanks for your help Oliver.

I'm using FF 3.0.

You right about trying to import using the web interface and HTML, and I actually like the tool bar. The only problem is the import function toolbar only seems to be set up to import browser bookmarks. I'm just trying to bring in about 50 bookmarks I have in del.icio.us as a test run before I bring in about 500 from my browser.

Lee

Oliver S. wrote:
> I am just a Diigo user myself, so I can't tell whether there are currently any technical problems.
>
> Right now, I can't test Diigo but when I am back home I could try to reproduce your problem. It would help if you could tell me which web browser you use (including the version number).
>
> Another thing: You probably tried to import your bookmarks in HTML format via the web interface.
> Have you already tried to import your bookmarks with the Diigo toolbar?
> If you don't like to permanently install the toolbar, you could use a portable version of Mozilla Firefox and install it there. It works with the portable version, too.
> I know this would not be a solution to the original problem but it might do as a workaround for now.
post by leepotts on 2008-07-22
Hi Lee,
I am sorry. We experienced some technical glitches in the importing feature. It began to work again and you will receive the email alert hours later.
post by joel on 2008-07-23

Only Furl topics get imported as tags instead of keywords

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:43:33 -0000

furl |import |tags | post by markymarkk on 2008-07-20

Hi,

I wanted to transfer all my Furl bookmarks to Diigo but there was one major problem:
At Furl, there are topics, which are kind of like folders and there are keywords, which are the actual equivalent to tags. When I imported my Furl bookmarks into Diigo, only the topics were imported as tags and no keywords at all.

Is there any way how I can import my Furl bookmarks into Diigo with the keywords becoming the tags?
post by markymarkk on 2008-07-20
I found another post here dealing with that same problem and a tip by Daniel Gauthier. He suggests a workaround solution by using Blinklist as an intermediary service to which Furl bookmarks can be imported with all tags and from which the bookmarks can then be imported into Diigo.
I tried this and it failed (Importing failed - Please make sure that bookmarks file is correct and contains your bookmarks.) It definitely is the correct XML file, so I don't know what the problem is.

Any other solutions to get my Furl bookmarks into Diigo with all the tags?
post by markymarkk on 2008-07-20

Import from Simpy

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:07:34 -0000

import |importing |simpy | post by glennm on 2008-02-15

When I try to import my bookmarks from Simpy it doesn't seem to get all of them. Any idea of what is going on.

Thanks
post by glennm on 2008-02-15
I have 3,271 links bookmarked. Diigo only imports 10.

Hope that helps,
Glenn

glennm wrote:
> When I try to import my bookmarks from Simpy it doesn't seem to get all of them. Any idea of what is going on.
>
> Thanks
post by glennm on 2008-02-15
Thanks for reporting. There is a new bug triggered by the new backend change. Should be fixed now. Please double check to confirm. Thanks
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-02-16
hi!

Maggie Tsai wrote:

> Should be fixed now. Please double check to confirm.

in the last weeks i tried multiple times to import my 240 bookmarks from simpy.
but they are not imported. either only ten imports like glenm stated or none at all.
the creationdates of my bookmarks are also not imported correctly.

did anybody succeed in importing from simpy?

best regards,

march.
post by marchs on 2008-06-04

importing with Delicious API

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:49:32 -0000

When I try to import DEL bookmarks into Diggo, it says "Username and password did not match". I know I am not mistyping my username and PW (made several attempts). Is this a bug?
post by manbitdog on 2008-05-01
Del.icio.us banned import bookmarks to diigo though API :(. I suggest you to use "Import via bookmark file" here http://www.diigo.com/import_all/prepare?service=Delicious
post by joel on 2008-05-02

import ma.gnolia bookmarks

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:35:37 -0000

bookmarks |import |ma.gnolia |support | post by fre_entity on 2008-03-25

I've tried a couple times importing my Ma.gnolia bookmarks, but everytime without any result.

I get the status of the import action, but it never goes father then the first bar you immediatly see.

after 10-15 minutes, I get a refresh of the page & I just see my bookmarks on diigo.

Is this a known issue ?

Is it because I want to import around 2000 bookmarks ?

is their another way to get my ma.gnolia bookmarks in here ?

regardz, Fré
post by fre_entity on 2008-03-25
Ma.gnolia.com may change its API.
You can work around by
1) Export ma.gnolia.com bookmarks and import them to your FF/IE
2) Go to Diigo toolar ===>Diigo button ===> Import my bookmarks.
post by joel on 2008-03-25
I tried that, but it doesn't import bookmark tags in Firefox, neither IE.

now I have an html file, outputted from ma.gnolia that contains those tags
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a good round up of when to make people fill in a form before having a full account on your website - gradual engagement

. Is there a way to directly get those bookmarks with tags into it.

I usually give +7 tags for each bookmark.
post by fre_entity on 2008-03-25
We are developing a importing from file feature. Hopefully, you can use this feature 2 weeks later.
post by joel on 2008-03-25
If you want I can send you my ma.gnolia bookmarks file, so you may beta test it on me.

I really like this concept & site, but as long as I don't get all my hard work in it, I'll hardly use it.
One of the main advantages of this platform is that it simultaneously let's you save a bookmark to diig & magnolia. This really made me choose to try it out.

Joel Liu wrote:
> We are developing a importing from file feature. Hopefully, you can use this feature 2 weeks later.
post by fre_entity on 2008-03-25
I just wanted to voice the statement that I desperately need my ma.gnolia info imported into diigo for there to be any real thought of switching services, I like the look of what you have done, however if I can't import I'll just continue to use what I have. I just sent an email on the Contact Page to the same effect, PLEASE FIX IMPORTING. Why for several days now there has been a "temporarily unavailable because of a problem with the delicious api" on the import page I don't know.

James

Frederik Van zande wrote:
> If you want I can send you my ma.gnolia bookmarks file, so you may beta test it on me.
>
> I really like this concept & site, but as long as I don't get all my hard work in it, I'll hardly use it.
> One of the main advantages of this platform is that it simultaneously let's you save a bookmark to diig & magnolia. This really made me choose to try it out.
>
> Joel Liu wrote:
> > We are developing a importing from file feature. Hopefully, you can use this feature 2 weeks later.
post by jdasher on 2008-03-25
the importing options have been enhanced. please check them out
post by wade on 2008-04-05
Wade, as far as I can tell Frederik's initial description still applies.

Wade Ren wrote:
> the importing options have been enhanced. please check them out
post by hacker on 2008-04-20
Hi Michael, Frederik, James
If you failed to import ma.gnolia.com bookmarks though API, you can do the following steps:
1) Export Ma.gnolia.com bookmarks to a file
2) Upload the file at the bottom part of this page http://www.diigo.com/tools/import_all
post by joel on 2008-04-24
Joel,

if you're talking about the plain 'export magnolia bookmarks' link on magnolia, then it would leave me with no tags and privacy settings, so that's not an option.
post by hacker on 2008-04-24
http://ma.gnolia.com/export
It contains your tags which can be seen in the source file.

You can import the file to diigo.
post by joel on 2008-04-24
Joel, you're right about tags, somehow I overlooked it. But no privacy...

Joel Liu wrote:
> http://ma.gnolia.com/export
> It contains your tags which can be seen in the source file.
>
> You can import the file to diigo.
post by hacker on 2008-04-24
On the positive side, though, I think magnolia import has just worked for me ;-)

Michael Krelin wrote:
> Joel, you're right about tags, somehow I overlooked it. But no privacy...
>
> Joel Liu wrote:
> > http://ma.gnolia.com/export
> > It contains your tags which can be seen in the source file.
> >
> > You can import the file to diigo.
post by hacker on 2008-04-24
Just FYI: the import seems to have problems with " Perhaps some other entities too.
post by hacker on 2008-04-24
We will look into it. Could you tell me the bookmark which was failed to be imported? Thanks.
post by joel on 2008-04-25
Joel, not anymore, but the " was in the title, I believe, not in the URL. And it was imported with " instead of ". So I'd guess any bookmark with " in title should do for reproducing.

Joel Liu wrote:
> We will look into it. Could you tell me the bookmark which was failed to be imported? Thanks.
post by hacker on 2008-04-25

Import from delicious

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:46:48 -0000

del.icio.us |import | post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-25

We've received words that some users are experiencing some problem importing bookmarks from delicious to diigo. The problem is actually not on the diigo's end, but their unfriendly time-out.

We're working on an alternative solution. Hope to have it ready very soon.

Thanks for your patience and continued support.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-25
has this been fixed yet?

Maggie Tsai wrote:
> We've received words that some users are experiencing some problem importing bookmarks from delicious to diigo. The problem is actually not on the diigo's end, but their unfriendly time-out.
>
> We're working on an alternative solution. Hope to have it ready very soon.
>
> Thanks for your patience and continued support.
post by manbitdog on 2008-03-26
Somewhat. After many tries, my marks finally got imported.

Manbitdog wrote:
> has this been fixed yet?
>
> Maggie Tsai wrote:
> > We've received words that some users are experiencing some problem importing bookmarks from delicious to diigo. The problem is actually not on the diigo's end, but their unfriendly time-out.
> >
> > We're working on an alternative solution. Hope to have it ready very soon.
> >
> > Thanks for your patience and continued support.
post by hagure on 2008-03-27
Like to clarify once more:

Since the "Get all bookmarks" API from del.icio.us impose frequency limits, if many users are trying to access their import API at once, then your import request may be denied by delicious and fail to complete.

If you experience difficulty, you can either try again at a later time. Or, in a few more days (or sooner) we will soon have an alternative method (ie. export then import to diigo) to assist everyone with a successful import. So stay tuned!

Another FYI: our current delicious import reverses the date sequence. We will make the correction the same time and for those who have previously imported from delicious. You can simply re-import and those data will be overridden.

More info to come shortly. thanks for your patience.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-27
would this new method import the bookmarks in proper order? last i imported delicious to Diigo, the bookmarks were backwards, in order of first posted to most recently posted

Maggie Tsai wrote:
> Like to clarify once more:
>
> Since the "Get all bookmarks" API from del.icio.us impose frequency limits, if many users are trying to access their import API at once, then your import request may be denied by delicious and fail to complete.
>
> If you experience difficulty, you can either try again at a later time. Or, in a few more days (or sooner) we will soon have an alternative method (ie. export then import to diigo) to assist everyone with a successful import. So stay tuned!
>
> Another FYI: our current delicious import reverses the date sequence. We will make the correction the same time and for those who have previously imported from delicious. You can simply re-import and those data will be overridden.
>
> More info to come shortly. thanks for your patience.
post by manbitdog on 2008-03-28
Yes.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-28
cheers...then i will wait. thank you for the prompt response

sorry, I missed your comment on "current delicious import reverses the date sequence"

paul

Maggie Tsai wrote:
> Yes.
post by manbitdog on 2008-03-28
I've tried to import my delicious bookmark a handful times over the last days with no success.

If its a timeout issue on their side could you not look into importing in chunks, rather than the whole list?

Let us know when this feature works :)
post by littlewonder on 2008-03-28
A new method will be available shortly. Please stay tuned.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-28
the import seems to be working, but i have a question: is this a one time import or is it a permanent feed from delicious?

if i add new tags to delicious, will have to re import them to diigo or will the automatically flow into diigo?

BTW, great service, great product!

Maggie Tsai wrote:
> We've received words that some users are experiencing some problem importing bookmarks from delicious to diigo. The problem is actually not on the diigo's end, but their unfriendly time-out.
>
> We're working on an alternative solution. Hope to have it ready very soon.
>
> Thanks for your patience and continued support.
post by fjurden on 2008-03-29
they have this service that "synchs" Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and Simpy when you add to Diigo. see this link:
http://www.diigo.com/tools/save_to_others

Frank Jurden wrote:
> the import seems to be working, but i have a question: is this a one time import or is it a permanent feed from delicious?
>
> if i add new tags to delicious, will have to re import them to diigo or will the automatically flow into diigo?
>
> BTW, great service, great product!
>
>
> Maggie Tsai wrote:
> > We've received words that some users are experiencing some problem importing bookmarks from delicious to diigo. The problem is actually not on the diigo's end, but their unfriendly time-out.
> >
> > We're working on an alternative solution. Hope to have it ready very soon.
> >
> > Thanks for your patience and continued support.
post by manbitdog on 2008-03-29
perfect.

THANKS!

Manbitdog wrote:
> they have this service that "synchs" Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and Simpy when you add to Diigo. see this link:
> http://www.diigo.com/tools/save_to_others
>
>
> Frank Jurden wrote:
> > the import seems to be working, but i have a question: is this a one time import or is it a permanent feed from delicious?
> >
> > if i add new tags to delicious, will have to re import them to diigo or will the automatically flow into diigo?
> >
> > BTW, great service, great product!
> >
> >
> > Maggie Tsai wrote:
> > > We've received words that some users are experiencing some problem importing bookmarks from delicious to diigo. The problem is actually not on the diigo's end, but their unfriendly time-out.
> > >
> > > We're working on an alternative solution. Hope to have it ready very soon.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your patience and continued support.
post by fjurden on 2008-03-29
Yeah, this feature was the deal breaker for me.

Quick question, if bookmarks are updated (say with new tags or descriptions) does this carry over to other services as well?

Frank Jurden wrote:
> perfect.
>
> THANKS!
>
>
> Manbitdog wrote:
>> they have this service that "synchs" Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and Simpy when you add to Diigo. see this link:
>> http://www.diigo.com/tools/save_to_others
>>
>>
>> Frank Jurden wrote:
>> > the import seems to be working, but i have a question: is this a one time import or is it a permanent feed from delicious?
>> >
>> > if i add new tags to delicious, will have to re import them to diigo or will the automatically flow into diigo?
>> >
>> > BTW, great service, great product!
>> >
>> >
>> > Maggie Tsai wrote:
>> > > We've received words that some users are experiencing some problem importing bookmarks from delicious to diigo. The problem is actually not on the diigo's end, but their unfriendly time-out.
>> > >
>> > > We're working on an alternative solution. Hope to have it ready very soon.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for your patience and continued support.
post by hagure on 2008-03-29
Terry Mccall wrote:
> Yeah, this feature was the deal breaker for me.
>
> Quick question, if bookmarks are updated (say with new tags or descriptions) does this carry over to other services as well?
==== > If you update these bookmarks from the toolbar, they can be updated to other services.
post by joel on 2008-03-29
New importing del.icio.us feature is available http://www.diigo.com/import_all/prepare?service=Delicious
post by joel on 2008-03-29
Import worked spendidly. Only one thing. It seems that the tags from my Del.icio.us marks did not transfer over to my overall tags in Diigo. Should I not have expected this?

-- dave --

Joel Liu wrote:
> New importing del.icio.us feature is available http://www.diigo.com/import_all/prepare?service=Delicious
post by dwarlick on 2008-03-29
Many bookmarks were imported, the system needs some time to produce the whole tag cloud. Don't worry about it.
post by joel on 2008-03-29
A user created this very helpful tip "Allowing Diigo to Play Nice with del.icio.us" http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ahjrstnd78fn_138bzzxsdp

We have just added the link to our HELP file http://help.diigo.com/ (see bottom)

Check it out
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-03-30
Thanks, that worked :)

Joel Liu wrote:
> New importing del.icio.us feature is available http://www.diigo.com/import_all/prepare?service=Delicious
post by littlewonder on 2008-03-30

"Import Delicious" bookmarks

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:47:28 -0000

When I went to Import my Delicious bookmarks, it says "Temporarily unavailable due to some problems with delicious api." If I click on importing RAW SUGAR or from any other social bookmark site, it says the same thing about Delicious
post by manbitdog on 2008-03-25
Got it. We will correct it soon.
post by joel on 2008-03-25
We corrected it. Thanks.
post by joel on 2008-03-28

Importing from csv

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:19:16 -0000

import | post by mrosenthal on 2008-02-10

I have a csv file with links and associated tags. Can I import into Diigo?

Thanks for the help
post by mrosenthal on 2008-02-10
Depending on the format of your CSV file. If you like, can email it to us and let us review the format and assist you with the import. Send the file to info at diigo dot com. Rest assured that your privacy is safeguarded.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-02-14

del.icio.us import is in reverse order

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:01:24 -0000

I just converted all my delicious bookmarks over today using the import feature. Tags and everything look great but they are in reverse order! The "oldest > >" link at the top takes me to my most recent bookmarks.

Is there any way to fix this?
post by corydodt on 2008-02-08
Thanks - will double check.
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-02-09

Not all Furl bookmarks imported

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:43:19 -0000

bookmarks |furl |import | post by silversix on 2008-01-15

I am trying to import from Furl (by providing my Furl username and password), but diigo only imports 30 something bookmarks out of the 150 or so that I have in Furl.

Any ideas?
post by silversix on 2008-01-15
Furl didn't provide API, so the imports feature may not stable enough. To work around it:
1. Export furl bookmarks manually and import them in to your FF/IE bookmarks.
2. Use Diigo toolbar to import bookmarks in FF/IE into your diigo account
post by joel on 2008-01-17
I found the problem - Furl does not export bookmarks which are marked as private. For anyone else that wants to export from Furl to Diigo (or any other app), make sure your Furl bookmarks are marked as public and also make sure the Furl topics that those bookmarks belong to are also marked as public.

The only other discrepency between the Furl bookmark count and the imported bookmark count was due to duplicated bookmarks (identical URLs).
post by silversix on 2008-01-18
thanks for sharing your discovery!
post by maggie_diigo on 2008-01-26

Migrating from ClipClip

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:47:26 -0000

import | post by amr_mt on 2008-01-08

Is it possible to import my bookmarks from ClipClip?
post by amr_mt on 2008-01-08
If ClipClip allows you to export clips as standard FF/IE bookmarks, you can do the following steps to import them:
1) Export ClipClip into FF/IE
2) Use FF/IE toolbar to import bookmarks to diigo.

Thanks for choosing Diigo.

amr_mt wrote:
> Is it possible to import my bookmarks from ClipClip?
post by joel on 2008-01-10

Furl tags not being imported

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:02:53 -0000

furl |import |tag | post by cornelia on 2007-11-30

Hello,

I've been trying to import a large furl archive into diigo, but even though the import page says that my furl tags will be imported as well, they never appear in diigo (there's just no_tag). Does anyone know what might be the matter here?

Thanks!
post by cornelia on 2007-11-30
Cornelia,

I know that when i bookmark with Diigo to other accounts everything goes fine except for Furl.
They don't recognize the tags that we give with Diigo.
Can it be a vice-versa situation? Like tit for tat?
post by dantheman on 2007-12-04
Hm, my guess is they aren't proactively doing anything like that, because they don't seem to be doing much at all over at Furl. They don't reply to support requests, and there are other lapses I've noticed. They seem uninterested, and I think they may be dying on the vine. So I'm guessing no. Hm. Wonder what's up over there.

dantheman wrote:
> Cornelia,
>
> I know that when i bookmark with Diigo to other accounts everything goes fine except for Furl.
> They don't recognize the tags that we give with Diigo.
> Can it be a vice-versa situation? Like tit for tat?
post by sdt333 on 2007-12-05
Oh, i remember writing in to Furl a few years and they did eventually answer.
They're not the only ones that seem to be or are really stagnant.
Spurl seems to be going nowhere. No more support, no more plenty of things except for the bookmarking feature.

Diigo is by far the most responsive and innovative at the present time!
post by dantheman on 2007-12-05
Dantheman,

That's right, I've tried simultaneously bookmarking to furl with diigo, and it didn't work. I'd really like to move my furl archive to diigo, but it contains 3000+ elaborately tagged items that we use for work purposes -we simply haven't got the time go over each item again to assign tags anew. Diigo looks much cleaner and offers wonderful possibilities for collaboration that we're dying to try out, if we can just keep those furl tags...

I've tried exporting the furl archive to other bookmarking services supported by diigo, thinking I might then import the items into diigo from there and keep the tags, but the furl tags simply refuse to come along to ANY other service. Agh. If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know!
post by cornelia on 2007-12-05
Cornelia,

Seeing that you tried opening an account with del.icio.us or another, did you try all the options available in Furl, like to the ZIP archive one?
post by dantheman on 2007-12-05
I've been trying to combine the various furl options with various diigo-supported bookmarking services for about a day now, and nothing has worked so far. The furl tags simply don't come along, whatever option or bookmarking service I use. Hell, they don't come along even when I import a furl-generated netscape bookmarks file into Netscape itself. I can see the keywords in the source of the file, they're there, but nothing seems to import them. I wonder if anyone else has had any success exporting furl tags to services like del.icio.us or connotea?

(I'm not sure how I could export the ZIP archive to any other service. It's just a bunch of html files -not a format that can be imported, is it?)
post by cornelia on 2007-12-05
Cornelia,

Never give up!

I just went over to Blinklist and they have a specific Furl import feature via their XML file.

-Daniel
post by dantheman on 2007-12-05
Daniel,

That actually worked, after replacing all the many many spaces in the Furl keywords with underscores -they became a mess otherwise. We're up and running at last. I have no words. If you ever need to know anything related to Japanese manga and/or the use thereof in education and on the web, drop a note and we'll give you anything you want ;)
post by cornelia on 2007-12-07
Cornelia,

Was just thinking about you!
Glad you found a workaround to your problem. Phew!
Manga? Isn't that a fruit of sorts?

If only my English and French were at par, then perhaps i would pick up some Japanese!

;)
post by dantheman on 2007-12-07

Can't import from Furl

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:27:09 -0000

furl |import | post by sdt333 on 2007-11-11

Hi, been trying all day to import from Furl, but I always get an error from Diigo that says "Oops, server busy. Try again later."

Is everyone else getting the same message? Is the server actually busy, or is something else happening?

I hope someone can help.

Thanks!
Steven
post by sdt333 on 2007-11-11
Thanks for your reporting. It's a bug. We will fix it soon.
post by joel on 2007-11-12
Furl changed some code and caused the problem. We changed our import method accordingly. It works now. Please try it again.
post by joel on 2007-11-19
Hi, I just tried it and I still get the same error. Happens the same if I choose private, public, or furl. Let me know if I can help with more info or tests. Thanks for looking into it!

Steven

joel wrote:
> Furl changed some code and caused the problem. We changed our import method accordingly. It works now. Please try it again.
post by sdt333 on 2007-11-19
Sorry, it only worked on our testing server last time. We deployed it on www.diigo.com just now. Please try it and tell me whether it's ok.
post by joel on 2007-11-19
It seems like it went a step further this time, but in the end, my bookmark count only went up by about 150 (from ~1639 to ~1793), even though I have 10,434 bookmarks in furl that could've been imported.

joel wrote:
> Sorry, it only worked on our testing server last time. We deployed it on www.diigo.com just now. Please try it and tell me whether it's ok.
post by sdt333 on 2007-11-20
Hi! Just wondering if there has been any more discovery or testing yet on this issue. Thanks!

Steven

joel wrote:
> Sorry, it only worked on our testing server last time. We deployed it on www.diigo.com just now. Please try it and tell me whether it's ok.
post by sdt333 on 2007-12-05
Hi, Steven
10434 is a large number of bookmarks, could you send me an email? yuesefa [at] gmail [dot] com, I can help you with this. Thanks
post by yuesefa on 2007-12-05

import not working

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:51:13 -0000

import |importing | post by denagrabinar on 2007-11-17

i've just joined up, really like the look of this service, but am having a few problems.

when i try to import my local bookmarks, my browser hangs and i eventually have to use the task manager to close it down. so then i tried importing via magnolia. but when i click the import button, nothing happens at all.
post by denagrabinar on 2007-11-17
oh, wait a minute! it's working now! at least, i've imported my local bookmarks no probs. i'll have another try with the magnolia ones too.

denagrabinar wrote:
> i've just joined up, really like the look of this service, but am having a few problems.
>
> when i try to import my local bookmarks, my browser hangs and i eventually have to use the task manager to close it down. so then i tried importing via magnolia. but when i click the import button, nothing happens at all.
post by denagrabinar on 2007-11-17
Hi,
It was caused by tag database upgrading. It's ok now. Please check it. Thanks.
post by joel on 2007-11-17

importing from Delicious- backwards

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:40:40 -0000

I just imported my del.icio.us bookmarks. Does Diigo not transfer the same SAVE DATE as when it was saved on Delicious? I do know that BlueDot/Faves.com performs this way. Also, after importing, my Diigo bookmarks are now backwards (my most current saved Delicious bookmark is now last in Diigo)
post by manbitdog on 2007-11-15
Got it - having our guy looking into it. Will fix.

manbitdog wrote:
> I just imported my del.icio.us bookmarks. Does Diigo not transfer the same SAVE DATE as when it was saved on Delicious? I do know that BlueDot/Faves.com performs this way. Also, after importing, my Diigo bookmarks are now backwards (my most current saved Delicious bookmark is now last in Diigo)
post by maggie_diigo on 2007-11-16
thank you. can you post a reply here when it is fixed?

maggie_diigo wrote:
> Got it - having our guy looking into it. Will fix.
>
> manbitdog wrote:
> > I just imported my del.icio.us bookmarks. Does Diigo not transfer the same SAVE DATE as when it was saved on Delicious? I do know that BlueDot/Faves.com performs this way. Also, after importing, my Diigo bookmarks are now backwards (my most current saved Delicious bookmark is now last in Diigo)
post by manbitdog on 2007-11-16

Import bookmark from firefox doesn't import all tags

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:26:44 -0000

bookmarks |firefox |import | post by dedlily on 2007-10-30

I exported my google bookmarks. I imported themn in firefox. some URLs belonged to more than one folder, as they were tagged with more than one tag.
when I imported them in diigo, my bookmark only had one tag. In other words, this process didn't maintain all tags...
any suggestion on how import multitagged bookmarks??

thanks!
post by dedlily on 2007-10-30

Cannot import from delicious

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:35:26 -0000

bug |del.icio.us |import |problem | post by darorme on 2007-10-12

New user here.

It says the username and password doesn't match yet when I try logging into my delicious account, I can access it.

I would try exporting then reimporting but I'm worried I won't get simultaneous bookmarking when I do try to add to diigo.

I notice under the options menu, it just asks for my delicious username and not my password. How is Diigo able to log into a Delicious account and add a bookmark there?

Edit: Nevermind. It works now. It may be because I didn't put anything under optional tags or I set things to private instead of delicious.
post by darorme on 2007-10-12

import from blogmarks

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:12:29 -0000

blogmarks |import | post by lilin_fr on 2007-10-04

Hello !

Is there a way to import blogmarks (blogmarks.net) bookmarks ?

thanks !
post by lilin_fr on 2007-10-04
You can first export them to your local browser, then use our import from browser (see My Tools >> Import)
post by maggie_diigo on 2007-10-04
thanks Maggie, it is a good idea

but, I can export my blogmarks only in 2 formats :
*"blogmarks.net backup" xml in ATOM format
*"export in del.icio.us format" xml (actualy, it can not be imported to delicious ! :) )

maggie_diigo wrote:
> You can first export them to your local browser, then use our import from browser (see My Tools > > Import)
post by lilin_fr on 2007-10-04

HELP! - Unable to Import

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:33:25 -0000

bookmarks |import |script | post by mattakunobaka on 2007-09-15

I don't have a personal computer of my own, and have to rely on public access at the city and university librarires. Both have different sets of arbitrary administrator restrictions on them, which often slows or halts anything I try to do.

I lately came to Diigo. Since I can't download the Diigo toolbar, I attempted to import my bookmarks from delicious, blinklist & such from the Diigo homepage.

It doesn't matter which libarary or computer I use; my bookmarks won't move. When I hit the button nothing happens. It doesn't matter which set of computers I use, city or university.

The university computers show a script error, but I couldn't find a place to directly contact the Diigo people & tell them about it.

Any suggestions?
post by mattakunobaka on 2007-09-15
mattakunobaka:
Maybe you can try http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet to see whether you can save bookmark and do annotations.
post by joel on 2007-09-15
When I am traveling and don't have access to my own system, I occasionally make use of "internet cafes", hotel business offices, or walk-in business services such as 'Kinkos' or 'staples'. In these situations, a USB drive is invaluable, provided you can reach one of the system's USB ports. I don't know if that possible in common libraries, but if it is, this may work for you.

mattakunobaka wrote:
> I don't have a personal computer of my own, and have to rely on public access at the city and university librarires. Both have different sets of arbitrary administrator restrictions on them, which often slows or halts anything I try to do.
post by hanswobbe on 2007-09-17