TSGL: Bookmark checker needed

Mon Mar 24 00:02:36 EDT 2008

Tilman,

You're very welcome.

No further research, but I just came across this link while surfing.  It may
or may not be helpful.

http://www.veign.com/application.php?appid=103

Merna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Bookmark checker needed

Merna,

while I didn't expect anybody to saddle him/herself with extensive research,
I appreciate your endeavours. Thanks!

As you can imagine, I've done some research myself, and did tests with AM
Dead Link (who must have a great marketing guy in their team). The problem
with AM DL is that it only works with the full list of favorites (I'm
checking my ca. 3500 IE favorites), there's no access to single subfolders.
Meaning that I can't move selected & checked links somewhere else, which I
need to do. At least I haven't found a way ...
As to copying or moving links, this only works for single links, not
selected blocks..

In my case, it appears that possibly a third of all my links are
inaccessible (they are old too), so it's difficult to check them all at
once. In quite a few cases I want to find out about e.g. redirections that I
could use as a replacement, etc. Btw - I've got a lot of duplicates too.

Linkman looks like it might do what I want, otherwise it does MUCH more than
that, so could be overkill. But I'll check this out.

Finally, Bookmark Master looks like a newcomer in the market. I've tried it,
and may end up with using it since it allows bulk deleting or moving of
links.

Thanks again for your tips

Tilman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric and Merna Bitter" <embitt at westnet.com.au>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Bookmark checker needed

> Tilman,
>
> I enjoy surfing and searching.  However, Googling various combinations of
> the words "bookmarks," "favorites," "dead links," "valid links," "verify,"
> "duplicate," "freeware," "hard drive," and/or "software" has revealed that
> there are many, many, many, many ...................possible programs
> available.
>
> It has also revealed that AM Deadlink pops up in many, many, many, many
> ...................places.  I have not downloaded or tried it but have
> noticed the following (or words to the same effect) in several search
> results:  "If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can verify it in the
> internal preview and delete it from your Browser."
>
> You have indicated  you would like to save some for further checking.  I
> don't know what that internal preview shows; but if  there are only a few,
> is it possible with that internal preview to copy and paste them somewhere
> or to manually write them down for later checking before deleting the bulk
> of dead ones?
>
> I have spent a couple of (enjoyable) hours on this exercise, which is why
> I
> became so aware of the repeated appearance of AM Deadlink.
>
> Here are a couple of others I noted which may or may not be of assistance:
>
> Linkman at http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=5.
> (following quote from about halfway down the page)
> "You can evaluate Linkman for 30 days.
> In order to get a Linkman license you must register and obtain a serial
> number (registration fee starts with $39/EUR30 for single workstation).
> All Linkman 7.x updates will be free (at least 3 feature updates).
> Alternatively you can sign-up with one of our affiliate partners and they
> will pay the registration fee on your behalf. See the Trialpay page for
> details."
>
> Bookmark Master (free) at http://www.qksoft.com/.
>
> Merna
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:11 AM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Bookmark checker needed
>
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your tips, guys.
>
> Link Sleuth - if I'm not mistaken - is for checking links on websites
> somewhere on the internet, not for checking my local list of bookmarks.
> But
> I'll have another look ....
>
> The /Tilman/ part of that link is indeed coincidental - believe it or not
> ;-)
>
> I've checked out AM DeadLink, and it's well done. Unfortunately, it
> doesn't
> offer an option to save away a list of dead links for later checks. I can
> of
> course always delete the bulk of them, but would like to check a few links
> more thoroughly, since the once were/still are important sites.
>
> Haven't found a way to do this from AM DeadLink.
>
> The program I once had offered to simply move them ino a special folder
> named 'BrokenLinks'. Something similar is what I would like to see ...
>
> Thanks again
> Tilman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:08 PM
> Subject: TSGL: Bookmark checker needed
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> in the past I've had a nice bookmark/favorites checking program. Can't
>> find it now. I've spent an hour meanwhile with testing different progs,
>> but most of them aren't exactly what I need for cleaning up my 3500
>> favorites..
>>
>> What I want:
>> Should check all my bookmarks and allow to move dead links to a different
>> place/folder ... Should also find duplicates. That's it ;-)
>>
>> Any experience with a good one anybody? Freeware preferred, but I would
>> also buy one if necessary.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tilman

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