Pros
Is fast and finds links
Cons
Link searches are not accurate. Many valid links appear as invalid.
No duplicate links feature/ability
The biggest problem with this app is that you can NOT delete dead links with Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer browsers.
Summary
App is effectively useless, Not sure what it's doing in the background on my system but I am uninstalling with Revo Uninstaller.
Pros
Easily found duplicate links
Easy to use
Built-in browser to check links or open with external browser
Cons
Reports live links as dead links.
Repeated checking of supposed dead links shows that they are not.
Very slow application. Takes about an hour to scan through 2000 bookmarks.
Cannot move column headings or choose which to show
Summary
Not reliable software for checking dead links. I don't know if it's because my computer is too slow for it, and it gives up. But when I click on the links that AM-Deadlink reports as dead, the page loads instantly.
I will be looking for another product that actually does its job.
Pros
fast...easy to use...
Cons
a lot of false positives (be sure to check the sites yourself to make sure the links are dead)
Pros
none - can't even delete invalid bookmarks for Firefox w/in the program.
Cons
This program installed PC optimizer, toolbars, hijacked my browser and other junk. There were no screens or options to choose the foistware - it just installed automatically. I'm no IT dummy and know all about foistware and how to avoid it. Not so much with this program as it installed everything w/o even a hint until I opened my browsers. It also disconnected my chrome account, installed toolbars in IE & Firefox. This is a piece of garbage and should be avoided at all costs.
Summary
STAY AWAY!
Pros
Easy to use, easy to understand. I've been using this programs for so many years, I think Its been since the very first version of the software. It's basic, but it has all the things I need to manage huge volumes of information. My "main" favorites file has over 4000 entries and this software enables me to keep all of those bookmarks up-to-date, and free of uneccessary "filler info". The software quickly checks every URL for status (if it's still a valid url, what type of error code the url send back-a 404 or 500, etc). This also have a preview panel built right in that can be turned on or off, to be able to see what website comes up when you're checking the sites that return error codes, or checking sites for any reason. There is so much this software does, and it's done in a very clean user interface. There's just too many perks to mention. Oh-of course it works for all major browsers, and you can export/import files very easily. Super program indeed.
Cons
I'd like to have the option to view the bookmarks in a tree navigation. The way you would see the bookmarks laid out in the windows file manager, for example. And then a "toggle" switch to flip that view back and forth.
Pros
I didn't use it because I can't save it on my computer. The description is in Cons. Thanks
Cons
Please, can you review this software, because I wanted to use it to find my dead links from bookmarks, but my ESET NOD32 Antivirus version 5.2.9.1. the newest data base 8092, recognise it like "Win32/DownloadAdmin.A.Gen potentially unwanted application" . Can you ask the creator Martin Aignesberger what to do about it? Thanks in advance ;)
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Reply by MrGodzilla on June 10, 2013
Why did you give it three stars? I'm thinking that if NOD32 warns you, it is best to stay away.
Pros
Reads bookmarks from a number of popular browsers as well as HTML files.
Allows you to check for and delete duplicates
Allows you to verify that the sites are still good
Cons
Can't actually DO anything with the bookmarks in the HTML files.
So slow to delete duplicates from Chrome that I don't think it is really working
I haven't gotten to where I can check for bad links yet so can't comment on it.
Summary
I'm used to Compass which does all of the above and FAST. I'm used to BookMacster on OS X which does all of the above and FAST. This is NOT fast.
I loaded Chrome with 27,000 bookmarks on an I5 machine running Windows 8 with 4GB of ram and a 100GB solid state hard drive. It took maybe 10 minutes for this program to find the duplicates. For the past two hours it has been "deleting" them. I'd think it wasn't working but it is chewing up 14% of the CPU and 100MB of ram. Windows task manager also says that it is not responding. Well I knew that. But the CPU and RAM usage vary so it does appear to be doing something. I just don't know what.
All I can say is that I'm glad that I don't have to pay for this software. I think that I'm going to cancel the task, uninstall the program and do the work on my Mac. It'll be a LOT faster.
Pros
Did help cleanup bookmarks.
Cons
Did not look into folders and could not delete empty and duplicate folders.
Summary
Make a backup for favorites first, better that dumping all my bookmarks and starting from scratch. I had many duplicates from bad syncing with apps that sync bookmarks in the cloud.
Updated on Aug 23, 2012
Forgot to say I used it with IE only in Win7-64bit.
Pros
I have bookmarks in a Google toolbar but couldn't get the program to check those. Imported them into Chrome, and AM-Deadlink did a good job of cleaning out the dead ones. I don't use Chrome, but at least I now have a cleaned-up backup of my bookmarks there.
Cons
When I tried to eliminate duplicates it somehow wiped out most of my bookmarks from Chrome (again, it didn't do anything to Google toolbar bookmarks). It does give an option to save or cancel changes to the file altered, so I didn't lose anything.
Summary
Be careful if you want to eliminate duplicates.
Pros
None at all.
Cons
Erases almost all your bookmarks in Firefox, not just duplicates.
Summary
I tried to remove duplicates in Firefox. I had about 700 bookmarks in total. About 150 to 00 were duplicates. I thought this program would save me hours of work. What it did was properly eliminate the duplicate entries in "unsorted bookmarks". But it also erased every bookmark that had been categorized. All my bookmarks in my Photoshop folder - gone! Android apps folder - empty. Legal folder - nothing. I ENDED UP WITH AROUND 75 BOOKMARKS AND ALL THE CATEGORIES, BUT ZERO BOOKMARKS IN EACH CATEGORY. Disaster.
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