Is the guid field in JSON of the bookmarks file now encrypted?
When I discover that I have already bookmarked a URL, I want to easily discover in which of my folder(s) I have saved the bookmark. In some cases, the hosting site morphs the bookmarked URL with a redirect, so I am unable to discover the containing folder by browsing to the URL. Sigh. I would also like to discover situations where I have already bookmarked a single URL in several different folders.
I have downloaded the JSON for my bookmarks file and parsed the JSON. I now know that I have 7388 URLs bookmarked which are saved across 111 folders.
I am having trouble discovering the parent/child relationships between the various folders in which the bookmarks are saved. I have several situations where child folders have the same names and can be identified only when the child's parent folder is known.
Undated Firefox documentation at [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d.../BookmarkTreeNode#parentid] suggests that each node in the bookmark tree should have a parentid and an index. I see an index but I do not see a parentid. I do see a GUID field. I have seen comments suggesting that parentid has been replaced by GUID.
But the values I see (GUID=FqNNI0k91ZjW, for example) do not make sense and have no connection to the ID fields (ID=2658, for example).
Can anyone help me make sense of the GUID values I am seeing? Are GUIDs now being hashed for some reason?
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I received no answer here.
However, I discovered a key piece of information missing from the architecture document: Bookmark and folder objects are encountered in the JSON repository in the order in which they appear in the bookmark hierarchy, meaning that an index property (without a parentid property) can uniquely specify where in the bookmark hierarchy a folder or bookmark belongs.
That is true only if index placeholders (which represent neither folders nor bookmarked URLs) are introduced to address rare situations where the child belonging to a parent folder has an index suggesting that it belongs in a child folder.
Index placeholders have typeCode=3 in the JSON repository. URLs/bookmarks have typeCode=1 and folders (in which bookmarks are saved) have typeCode=2.
I now have a Perl script which quickly displays in which of my folder(s) I have saved a particular bookmark.
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