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+--Forum: Bookmark Converter Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: Phoenix bookmark folder "lowercased" in IE6 started by Skirge01
Posted by: Skirge01 on Dec. 13 2002,00:19
While converting my Phoenix 0.4 bookmarks to IE6, BMC did two things. First, it alphabetized my personal toolbar in IE6 instead of leaving it the way I had them organized in Phoenix. Second, a folder I called "NJ_NY_PA" in Phoenix was renamed in IE6 to "Nj_ny_pa". I didn't run any alphabetizing or other organizational options in BMC.
George
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Dec. 13 2002,01:05
About the alphabetizing, did you convert the favorites directly into the default IE favorites directory (as listed in the help menu tool of BMC), i.e. without e.g. letting them pass through another directory first and then copying them to the correct location? Folders other than this one cannot have non-alphabetical order in IE, and the order data does not follow when copying the favorites between different directories in the computer.
Your second problem is also completely due to a shortcoming in IE. You cannot create all-upper-case folder names of a length less than or equal to 8 characters (try to create that folder name manually from inside IE and see for yourself).
Posted by: Skirge01 on Dec. 13 2002,03:30
For the alphabetizing piece, I didn't change anything. I browsed to the default directory in Documents and Settings and it decided to change them anyhow.
Any other ideas why it did this? Is this perhaps another incompatibility with Phoenix?As for the capitalization part, I hate to disagree, but you can have Windows allow you to create your filenames however you want. See < here >.
George
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Dec. 14 2002,02:47
Hmm, that might have something to do with it, but I'm not 100% sure. I noticed that these problems went all the way down to the Win32 API level when I investigated them before.
Also, since most people don't have that operating system feature turned on, the current operation is probably the most compatible one (I cannot change global operating system settings for people).
I will look into it some more when I get the time though, thanks for the info!
Posted by: Skirge01 on Dec. 17 2002,18:37
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(I cannot change global operating system settings for people)
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Oh come on!!!! Other programmers out there make unwanted changes to people's systems. Why should you be any different?
I'm going to do some testing tonight on the alphabetizing part. Hopefully I can figure out exactly what's going on.
George
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Dec. 17 2002,22:19
Ok, looking forward to hearing about the results.
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