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impextoo December 16 2010, 22:49:41 UTC
First off, breathe. Second of all, install the extension Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) in your browser (it's got IE, Firefox, and Chrome covered). Then login at my.xmarks.com and one of the tools in the dropdown is 'Import Bookmarks from Del.ici.ous.'

Xmarks is awesome--it syncs your bookmarks across all the browsers on your computer and on other computers you login in to your Xmarks account with. It can also do password, history, and open tab sync.

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guen_the_cat December 16 2010, 22:52:57 UTC
I second this. Xmarks has been my savior through various browser changes when things got prickly. It almost shut down itself a couple of months ago, but so many people screamed and cried that they'd pay for the service that the company found a buyer. There are now supposed to be two tiers of usership under works as the buyout happens. A free tier and a pay tier.

I have so many recipes bookmarked I just don't know what I would do if I lost it. Xmarks is my cookbook!!!

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greyduck December 16 2010, 22:59:50 UTC
Wait... so I bailed to Firefox's "built in" cobbled-together bookmark sync FOR NO REASON?

Sigh.

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guen_the_cat December 16 2010, 23:31:25 UTC
Yep. You can go back now.

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chaneen December 16 2010, 23:52:25 UTC
You have made me so happy, you have no idea! I don't know what I'd do without XMarks, and I had no idea it wasn't shutting down until right now. This doesn't make the delicious news any easier to handle, but it really eases my mind re: my on computer bookmarks, so thanks!

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eleigh December 16 2010, 23:02:52 UTC
I installed that and exported bookmarks from Delicious but it only exported the first 100.

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guen_the_cat December 17 2010, 15:59:06 UTC
For all of you who noticed you can only export the first 100 of your bookmarks, Xmarks just blogged that they are working on a direct import from Delicious, so it may be that all bookmarks can be transferred when they get that going. See the blog. You may want to ask there.

http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=2144

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snacky December 16 2010, 23:08:00 UTC
I agree that Xmarks is awesome and I would be totally lost without it, but for importing, it does say only the "100 most recent bookmarks" in Del.ici.ous will be imported, so I'm not sure it's going to help Cleo, who has so many.

On the other hand, maybe the Xmarks people will add the functionality to import all Delicious bookmarks if people start demanding it.

Cleo, I don't know how well it works, but Google Bookmarks instructions for importing seem fairly simple.

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cleolinda December 16 2010, 23:14:46 UTC
Hm. I'll look into that.

I think one of the reasons I'm so freaked out by this is--everyone keeps preaching about keeping your data "in the cloud," so that you don't lose it when your hardware dies. Which is true, and has saved my ass. But this is based on trust that no one will shut down the cloud. That's pretty much what Yahoo has done here.

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snacky December 16 2010, 23:21:42 UTC
But this is based on trust that no one will shut down the cloud. That's pretty much what Yahoo has done here.

It is pretty frightening. I'm not surprised that Yahoo needed to take cost-cutting measures in this economy, but I AM surprised this was the service they chose to shut down, since it seems so widely used and popular.

I wonder if Google might be able to buy it from Yahoo, and integrate with Google Bookmarks. It seems like Delicious would be something you'd WANT to keep on your service, with so many users.

XMarks almost closed down a few months ago and I was having major panic over that, but luckily, because the users were so into it and protested and offered to pay for the service (and I personally will happily throw money at it), they found a buyer for it. Best case scenario, that could happen to Delicious.

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blue_ant December 16 2010, 23:24:12 UTC
Oddly, I tried to use delicious instead of xmarks, and when I realized xmarks wasn't leaving I was SO HAPPY.

But, man, the loss of information if (when?) delicious goes down is going to be terrible.

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snacky December 16 2010, 23:31:11 UTC
Yeah, I tried Delicious, but since Xmarks worked so well as both web-based and local bookmarks, I never really used it.

But I feel bad for everyone who did - what a huge loss!

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blue_ant December 16 2010, 23:32:46 UTC
I love xmarks so much, especially now that I paid for their ipod touch app. I was so happy it didn't go away.

I do use delicious for fics I like and want to come back and read later (and when people ask me what kind of fic I like, it's a handy link). It's also frustrating to think that Yahoo just doesn't care anymore.

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cleolinda December 16 2010, 23:27:44 UTC
Yeah, it astonishes me that Delicious is the service they'd pick to cut.

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dormouse_in_tea December 17 2010, 13:51:17 UTC
You gave me an idea -- I just hopped on my (largely defunct) twitter and did an @Google calling for them to buy del.icio.us and save it. Maybe if a lot of people did that? I don't know. Google wants to take over the entire internets, you'd expect they'd think of it themselves.

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impextoo December 16 2010, 23:25:35 UTC
Xmarks is both a cloud copy and local copy of your bookmarks. You can set master list to be either the cloud copy or the local copy (personally, I prefer the cloud), but regardless, you're always going to have both.

Some people have mentioned a cap on the number of bookmarks you can import from Delicious. If you follow Lifehacker's new guide to importing Delicious bookmarks into your favorite browser, you can import all your Delicious bookmarks into Firefox, install Xmarks, and have it sync your new local bookmarks to the cloud.

Also, Xmarks just got acquired by Lastpass so you can bet they'll be around for a looooooooong time.

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