# DT Pro won't import bookmarks nor contacts

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928>\
**Category:** DEVONthink\
**Created:** [October 2, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928 "2021-10-02T20:55:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Timotheus](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/timotheus/32/8400_2.png) [@Timotheus](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Timotheus)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928/1 "2021-10-02T20:55:46Z")

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DT Pro won’t import bookmarks from Firefox, nor contacts from Apple Contacts.

What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928/2 "2021-10-03T01:02:14Z")

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Have you allowed access for DEVONthink to Contacts in **System Preferences \> Security & Privacy \> Privacy**?  
You should also allow **Full Disk Access** and any **Automation** requests DEVONthink makes.

Regarding Firefox, Full Disk Access _may_ help, but it handles its bookmarks in its specific way. This may help as well…

> [@Firefox bookmarks do not appear](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/firefox-bookmarks-do-not-appear/24049/3):
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> This is an issue with how Firefox stores its bookmarks. But there is a setting that will export Bookmarks to an HTML file when Firefox quits. In Firefox, type about:config in the address bar. Click the button to accept the risk. Search for Bookmark Double-click the line that reads Browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML. The value should be set to True. Quit Firefox. (I actually suggest relaunching and quitting it again, just to make sure.) Attempt the import of Bookmarks into DEVONthink.

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**Author:** ![Timotheus](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/timotheus/32/8400_2.png) [@Timotheus](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Timotheus)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928/3 "2021-10-03T15:35:34Z")

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Thanks for your help!

Allowing Full Disk Access to DEVONthink made it indeed possibile to import all contacts. I also managed to import the Firefox bookmarks, but only as a single HTML file, not as a collection of individual documents. Is there no way to import the Firefox bookmarks as individual documents? Importing Safari bookmarks as individual documents is very simple.

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928/4 "2021-10-03T18:52:10Z")

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You’re welcome.

> Importing Safari bookmarks as individual documents is very simple.

Again, browsers handle their bookmarks as they wish. Firefox doesn’t provide individual documents to import.

The next release of DEVONthink will have an option to import from an HTML file.

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**Author:** ![Timotheus](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/timotheus/32/8400_2.png) [@Timotheus](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Timotheus)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928/5 "2021-10-03T20:21:56Z")

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That’s good to know! Thanks again!

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/dt-pro-wont-import-bookmarks-nor-contacts/66928/6 "2021-10-03T23:23:57Z")

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My pleasure.