Hello,


My thanks to Betsy for posting the original topic on Chrome bookmarks
and my thanks to Brian who posted the pointer/group reference on the
NVDA main list.

My name is Dave. I use Chrome as well as other Chromium-based browsers
such as Brave. While my problem is not the same as Betsy's it is in
fact the opposite. I thought I had imported my bookmarks from my
previous browser IE11 and then began browsing with Chrome bookmarking
sites and organizing those bookmarks in to folders as needed. My
problem is my bookmarks are a complete mess, I found two folders that
are not on the main point but were in fact in another subfolder, this
is not what I want.


I'd appreciate any suggestions to organize folders and files of
bookmarks I have quite a lot of them and would prefer not to have to
redo everything.

Thanks.
Dave.




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Dave,

This is another of those, "I'm not quite sure where to start," kind of questions.  Chrome, and all the Chromium-based browsers (even Edge, though they still call them favorites) has a built-in Bookmarks Manager that is very much like File Explorer in the way it works, but what it's working with is internal to the browser and it allows you to create folders and move bookmarks to them.  Folders can have subfolders, just like in File Explorer.

The Bookmarks Manager in Chrome is invoked with CTRL + SHIFT + O.  All bookmarks are organized under a pre-existing folder called Bookmarks Bar, which you can choose to have displayed (or not) directly beneath the main Chrome controls.

In Bookmarks Manager, the Windows standard cut, copy and paste commands behave like you're used to.  If you have a bookmark (or folder) selected, you can cut or copy it, navigate to where you want it now to be placed over in the folder tree, and paste it.  If you simply want to rearrange the ordering of a collection of bookmarks, what I do is cut the one I want to move, navigate to the bookmark or folder I want it to be placed after, then paste it.  If you are trying to move something into a folder, you must have that folder open first (unlike File Explorer) and then find where you want the bookmark placed within its existing collection by locating the existing bookmark you want it after, and pasting.

You can multi-select bookmarks that are not contiguous just like you do in File Explorer with CTRL being held down and selecting the various things you want to select.  You can do block multi-select by selecting the first in the block, selecting it, holding down SHIFT, then down-arrowing to the last item you want. 

I think the above should get you started.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 19045

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Hello,


My thanks to Betsy for posting the original topic on Chrome bookmarks
and my thanks to Brian who posted the pointer/group reference on the
NVDA main list.

My name is Dave. I use Chrome as well as other Chromium-based browsers
such as Brave. While my problem is not the same as Betsy's it is in
fact the opposite. I thought I had imported my bookmarks from my
previous browser IE11 and then began browsing with Chrome bookmarking
sites and organizing those bookmarks in to folders as needed. My
problem is my bookmarks are a complete mess, I found two folders that
are not on the main point but were in fact in another subfolder, this
is not what I want.


I'd appreciate any suggestions to organize folders and files of
bookmarks I have quite a lot of them and would prefer not to have to
redo everything.

Thanks.
Dave.





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