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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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. 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

Save Elsewhere only lists 3 sites

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:39:07 -0000

Save Elsewhere now only has 3 choices - del.icio.us, simpy and ma.gnolia. I used to be able to save to
Furl as well, now it's not one of the choices.
Is it coming back?

Helaine
post by helaine on 2008-03-25
Hi Helaine,
We didn't find the Furl APIs, so it's hard to save to Furl.
I did some explanation on how we supported those sites before and why we stopped supporting them in the new version http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/2740
post by joel on 2008-03-25
Hi Joel,

It's a shock to find an "upgrade" that takes away features with no warning. Is it possible to go back to the previous version?

Before Diigo, I used other "scripts/bookmarklets" that allowed me to save to del.icio.us and Furl, among others, simultaneously. These were written by individuals, so it wouldn't seem to be that hard.

FYI - Without the ability to save to del.icio.us and Furl, I would not have tried Diigo - too much of a downside - too much extra work to save to different places so I could go back if I didn't like Diigo.

Since I've been using Diigo, I like it and now have to decide if I like it enough to lose Furl.

Helaine

Joel Liu wrote:
> Hi Helaine,
> We didn't find the Furl APIs, so it's hard to save to Furl.
> I did some explanation on how we supported those sites before and why we stopped supporting them in the new version http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/2740
post by helaine on 2008-03-25

Changes not updated to other services

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:17:05 -0000

blinklist |del.icio.us |ma.gnolia | post by windyn on 2007-11-29

Hi

I use Diigo to bookmark/tag into Diigo, Blinklist, del.icio.us and ma.gnolia which works very well, except:

If I edit the bookmark using the edit function from a list of bookmarks and, for instance change the tag(s) the change is not updated in the other services.

But, if I navigate to the bookmarked site and click on the Diigo button on the toolbar to bring up the full panel and change the tags and then Submit and Close the tags are updated across the other services.

Obviously I can work round by using the toolbar, but it would be good if the other method worked too.
post by windyn on 2007-11-29
Windyn,
It costs too much for us to sync the bookmarks by implementing save, delete, edit and other functions.
Could you like it to be a premium feature later?
post by joel on 2007-12-06
Hi Joel

Sorry, I didn't make the bug report clearer.

The changes are written to the other services if you use the toolbar button, so the cost issue is irrelevant.

The problem is that the changes are not written if using the edit function from the bookmark list.

So the functionality is already present via the toolbar but the edit function from the bookmark list is not calling the same code to perform the update.

Regarding delete, if the functionality to update the bookmarks is present via the toolbar button it should be a minor change when calling the other services APIs to perform a delete.

Premium feature - no edit function is a bug, and delete a bug too.

Thanks

Nigel

joel wrote:
> Windyn,
> It costs too much for us to sync the bookmarks by implementing save, delete, edit and other functions.
> Could you like it to be a premium feature later?
post by windyn on 2007-12-06
1.Currently, the post to other services feature is done in the client side (toolbar), not in the server side.
2. If we provide the function you suggest in the post, the cost will be high when people do batch operations and other services may also ban our IP.
post by joel on 2007-12-06
OK I understand about potential hazards for batch operations, so don't enable that functionality for batch operations.

However, if the functionality already exists in the toolbar, just ensure the same code is called when editing a bookmark from the bookmark list.

Delete of single bookmarks in other services shouldn't be hard to implement either and surely is a bug if synchronisation of other services is enabled via the options panel.

joel wrote:
> 1.Currently, the post to other services feature is done in the client side (toolbar), not in the server side.
> 2. If we provide the function you suggest in the post, the cost will be high when people do batch operations and other services may also ban our IP.
post by windyn on 2007-12-06

Bookmarks not deleted from other services

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:21:18 -0000

blinklist |del.icio.us |delete |ma.gnolia | post by windyn on 2007-11-29

Hi, thought it sensible to separate these into two posts.

I use Diigo to bookmark/tag into Diigo, Blinklist, del.icio.us and ma.gnolia .

If I delete a bookmark using the delete function from a list of bookmarks it is only deleted in Diigo and not the other services.

I think that Diigo should delete from the other services too; although it would make sense for this to be an option somewhere.
post by windyn on 2007-11-29