The UI doesn't have all the Mac touches (no shift-select to select a range of sites, selecting and updating bookmark fields is a tad idiosyncratic, etc.). And, I got different results on some bookmarks each time I ran this, which could have been caused by network conditions, or conditions at the target sites, but maybe not.

However, this does the job, and it's free. It's hard to ask for more out of a free app. Using it, I cleaned out a LOT of dead cruft in my bookmarks. It's not perfect, but it's hard to beat the price.

If you're going to run this repeatedly, you want to also have a terminal window open on ~/Library/Safari so you can delete the Bookmarks_saved-by_sbc.plist file before each execution. I found it useful to open open the preferences and crank up the site timeout value, and increase the number of simultaneous requests outstanding value.

Basically, you run this, click a button, and wait for it to finish. Then, click the status column header to order the status results (Eh, this was a little clunky IMHO), and find all the 404's, 500's, 301's, etc. bookmarks.

You can also order the window by name or URL, which is a poor-man's way to find duplicate bookmarks.

excellent little utility and a very responsive developer. I had aproblem with our proxy server at work, he fixed it in less than 24 h and it worked the first time.

like the program and it seems to run okay..except for one thing...i'd like to be able to delete bookmarks right from the main window, not have to go back to safari and look for them. Is this possible? I cleared a couple and it asked me to save on quit but they were still there the next time i opened safari???

I've just finished using this version (1.2) and I must say that it seems to be a very handy and stable application.

Keep it up!

Start's up ok here on 10.3.4, and does check the 1382 bookmarks I have in less then a minute, but then it says "Waiting for lookups to end" and just sits there, waited about 10 minutes and still nothing, and also the stop button then fades out and doesnt allow me to stop it so I have to quit the program, how long is it suposed to take?

Also I had to use the File menu to start the check as the button with the Safari icon on it which I assume should start the check also, does not work.

Keep working on it, will be good to have when it works. :-)