Clean up the hookmark database after deleting files

Discussion & Help
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Hi,
I’m surprised that this hasn’t popped up earlier in the forum, but here’s my question : I have a bunch of hooks to files that have been trashed (and the trash has been emptied).

These hooks still appear in the list, for example if I do a search of my hookmark database. Here is what I see:

CleanShot Google Chrome-Hookmark Forum2023-02-13 at 11.00.29@2x
CleanShot Google Chrome-Hookmark Forum2023-02-13 at 11.00.29@2x1153×1520 176 KB

Admittedly my use case was weird (i generate a bunch of hooks to test some automation on my mac, and I trashed all garbage hooks at once …) so I’m not sur if it’s just a matter of the database not catching up on my housekeeping?

Thanks for any thoughts.

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They would need to be deleted one by one. Hookmark does not delete automatically delete bookmarks to items in the trash because (a) you remove the file from trash; (2) delete the file on one Mac yet one to keep the hook on another Mac. This is relevant because sync may be enabled.

Future:

We do intend to

  1. support multi-select in the future to facilitate bulk operation on bookmarks (deletion, etc). The bookmarks will be available in a separate Hookmarks window.
  2. have an option to hide bookmarks that are in the trash.