Purging

[crisavec]

So for some odd reason I decided to clean out my bookmarks file from Mozilla today.

Starting bookmarks:708
After Dup Purge: 681
After 500 and 404 error purge: 495....Kept 18 404 errors for lookup and replacement
After reviewing the redirected and OK status pages, I end up with 306 bookmarks. Some of the OK pages were just domain squatters, or the site had changed focus, or it wasn't something I had any interest in anymore...so off to the bitbucket they went. There are probably a few more I could nuke, but not tonight.

The size of the file shrunk from 140KB to 65KB, and I deleted 402 bookmarks in total. Thats quite the cleanup...I wonder if it'll make using bookmarks easier now.

Comments

[kanigem.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness.
You're even a packrat when it comes to bookmarks!?!

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Back in the Netscape 4.x days there was a linkchecker built in that would test for stuff. I'd use it fairly often to clean things out, but it disappeared come Mozilla days and without it there is no fast way to check everything.

But yeh, I had a ton of links that i had ferreted away that were bad, all because I'm a packrat.