At startup bookmarks will be downloaded automatically from the active connection. During the jBoom session you can download bookmarks at any time from any connection:

	Click on the symbol in the toolbar.
	Press Alt+Page Down.

A popup menu appears, showing the names of all defined connections and an additional entry "local" for the local file. Click on an entry to start the transmission. The downloaded entries are merged into the existing tree, following these rules:

• If a bookmark with the same name exists at the same position in the tree, its URL and comment will be replaced.
• If a folder with the same name exists, it will be entered.
• Otherwise the entry will be added to the tree.

If you download a bookmark set from a different source than the active one, it will be inserted into the selected branch. After downloading, the additional entries are part of your bookmark set. Subsequent changes on the server can be adopted by downloading the data again.

To replace the current data set by a different one, first empty it by cutting the root (see Editing entries).

The download menu also contains an item for importing browser bookmarks or mail addresses. JBoom doesn't process propriertary files directly, but reads files in system independent standard formats. These are

• For bookmarks: Files im Firefox HTML format.
• For mail addresses: Files in CSV format (text lines consisting of comma, semicoln, or tabulator separated fields).

So if your browser allows exporting its bookmarks into HTML (most popular brwosers do), first perform the export and then import the created file into jBoom. ^[1] Mailers like Thunderbird and Outlook also allow exporting addresses into CSV files. For Opera there is an online conversion page.

After chosing a CSV file, a dialog opens:

In the upper part the file content is shown. The program tries to guess the separator; if it is wrong, the setting can be changed manually. In some cases the file starts with a header line which must not be included in the data. A check box is provided to skip the first line. Here again the program tries to guess the correct setting. Columns containing no data (except the header) are ignored.

As jBoom doesn't know the meaning of the different columns, one has to chose up to 3 columns which are to be taken over by the program. By a right click on a column header one of the labels "-", "Address", "Name", and "Text" can be assigned to this column. Columns labeled "-" are ignored. The "Name" column comprises the name of the tree entries, "Address" the corresponding mail addresses, and "Text" the comments. The "Text" column is optional. If the "Name" column (or any of its fields) is missing, the corresponding address is used. After the assignment the dialog will look like this:

A click on "OK" inserts the addresses below the selected tree entry.

Normally the root of the tree is shown at the top. As this isn't overly interesting, it can be switched off in order to save space:

	Click on the symbol , to make the root visible or invisible.
	Press Ctrl+r.

As a side effect all expanded branches in the tree get collapsed. So, if you click on the symbol twice, the root visibility is the same as before, but all folders are closed.