Removing Bookmarks and Folders

.Mac allows you to remove bookmarks as well as add thema blessing for those who need to do a little pruning in an overly large collection. You can use this feature to delete either an individual bookmark or a whole folder.

To Delete a .Mac Bookmarks Folder or Bookmark

1.	Open your .Mac Bookmarks window.
2.	Navigate to the location that contains the bookmark or folder you want to delete.
3.	Click the Delete button at the bottom of the window (Figure 10.19). The Delete button looks like a circle with a line through it. Figure 10.19. The Delete button at the bottom of the window lets you delete a bookmark or folder. Delete buttonscircles with embedded white Xsappear next to each item in the window (Figure 10.20). Figure 10.20. When you click the Delete button, small circles with white embedded Xs appear to the left of all visible items. These are individual Delete buttons.
4.	Click the Delete button next to the item you want to delete. The bottom portion of the window expands to ask if you are sure you want to delete the item (Figure 10.21). Figure 10.21. When you click an item's Delete button, a message appears at the bottom of the window asking if you're sure you want to delete the item. Click Delete.
5.	Click Delete. The .Mac Bookmarks window reloads with the deleted item removed (Figure 10.22). The next time you synchronize your bookmarks with your .Mac account, the deleted item will be removed from your Safari bookmarks. Figure 10.22. After you confirm that you do indeed want to delete the selected item, the .Mac Bookmarks window reloads with the item removed.

Tip

• You can delete only one bookmark or folder at a time, so if you want to do some serious spring cleaning, you may have to repeat this process several times. You might consider making the changes in Safari instead, and then synchronizing your bookmarks.

Setting Bookmark Preferences

As with most other aspects of your .Mac account, you can customize how .Mac handles bookmark display and synchronization by setting your .Mac Bookmarks preferences (Figure 10.23).

Figure 10.23. The .Mac Bookmarks preferences window lets you customize your .Mac Bookmarks experience by choosing how links open, what collection opens by default, the default language, and whether bookmarks are synchronized.

To open the .Mac Bookmarks preferences window, log in to your .Mac account and open the .Mac Bookmarks window; then click the Preferences button in the lower right corner (it's the one that looks like a light switch). This loads the .Mac Bookmarks preferences window, the settings of which you can change as follows:

• Always open pages in a new browser window. If it's not already selected, click this radio button to cause pages opened from your .Mac Bookmarks to open in a new browser window instead of your current browser window. This is the default setting.

• Always open pages in the same browser window. Click this radio button to cause pages opened from your .Mac Bookmarks to open in your current browser window.

• Default folder to open. By default, the All Collections folder is opened when you open your .Mac Bookmarks window (this simply sets your view to the top level of your bookmarks). You can, however, specify a different folder to open by default, by choosing it from the "Default folder to open" pop-up menu.

• Language. Your .Mac Bookmarks can be displayed in either English or Japaneseyou choose which one from the Language pop-up menu.

• Turn on .Mac Bookmarks Synchronization. This option lets you determine whether your .Mac Bookmarks are synchronized. When you check this box, changes you make to your .Mac Bookmarks are reflected on computers subscribed to this .Mac account.

After you've made your changes to your .Mac Bookmarks preferences, click Save to apply them.