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This is an answer to the many posts on how to import Powermarks into Delicious.
I searched the web, contacted the author of Powermarks and could find no way to
do it.

I had the same issue and I manually found a way to get Powermarks bookmarks
imported into Delicious using only Microsoft Excel. It should take you less than
30 minutes to it.

Steps to import Powermarks into Delicious.com using Microsoft Excel 2003

1. Put a bookmark in Delicious and export bookmark file from Delicious by going
under settings then Export / Backup Bookmarks.
2. Export bookmarks from Powermarks under File -> export as type delimited
ASCII.
3. Open the exported Powermarks text file in Excel.
4. Put columns in order of url, keywords, then title and delete all remaining
columns.
5. Setup the Excel sheet with the following columns to mimic the exported
Delicious file format. Copy and paste the test string following each column name
into the first cell of each column then copy and paste that cell all the way
down the column to the last row of your bookmarks. (The text is exact after the
Column letters and spaces with the red lines as the original data columns from
Powermarks):
Column A <DL><p><DT><A HREF="
Column B The url field
Column C " TAGS="
Column D The keywords field
Column E ">
Column F The bookmark name field
Column G </A></DL><p>

6. Select keywords column and go under Edit -> replace put a space in the find
what field and a comma in the replace with field. This will put commas in the
place of all the spaces in between the keywords.
7. Press ctrl-a to select whole sheet and go under Data -> filter -> autofilter
. Open the filter cell in the first row of the url column. Select custom and do
contains file: Then delete all those rows to get rid of the file bookmarks.
8. Do ctrl-a to select whole sheet then ctrl-c to copy then open notepad.exe and
ctrl-v to paste sheet.
9. In notepad highlight and copy one of the tab characters placed in the rows as
field separators, then go under edit and replace and paste the tab character in
the find what field and hit replace all to get rid of the tab delimiters.
10. Copy top part of Delicious export file before first <DL><p><DT> line and
paste into top of Powermarks notepad file, change both instances of the word
bookmarks to Powermarks. Make sure all format exactly matches original Delicious
download file.
11. Save the notepad file as powermarks.htm
12. Go in delicious.com, go under settings and Import / Upload Bookmarks. At the
bottom select manual import. Delete "imported" out of tag field and hit Import
Now.
13. You should get a success statement and your bookmarks should now begin
showing up under bookmarks.





Wed Mar 4, 2009 12:53 am

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This is an answer to the many posts on how to import Powermarks into Delicious. I searched the web, contacted the author of Powermarks and could find no way to...
james30311
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Mar 4, 2009
3:32 am

Hi James, Bravo. I was one of those unlucky souls who spent years begging Kaylon and Yahoo [1] and the lazyweb in general to create a Powermarks-Delicious...
fjordaan2000
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Mar 5, 2009
3:04 am

Hi, Francois. Delicious looks for tags separated by commas in bookmarks.html. If you have three tags, "this one", "that one" and "the other" (without the...
Rocco Caputo
yimboh
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Mar 5, 2009
4:02 am

Hi Rocco, James, Thanks for the advice -- a few regular expressions later, and my bookmarks imported with the tags successfully preserved. Just one more...
fjordaan2000
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Mar 10, 2009
12:08 am

ADD_DATE is correct. We have a known problem with really early ADD_DATEs that should be fixed in the next few weeks. -- Rocco Caputo - Delicious...
Rocco Caputo
yimboh
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Mar 10, 2009
12:17 am

Hi Rocco, ... So I don't need to do anything but wait? After importing, a large number of my bookmarks ended up with the date 31 Dec 2002, and none older than...
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