How to merge Favorites .htm files?

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Guest

can anyone expert help out with Favorites questions?
1. is it possible to easily "merge" two different Favorites files that were
each created by the Import/Export Wizard? i couldn't find any way other than
opening each .htm file in Microsoft FrontPage and then cutting and pasting to
create the union of the two .htm files.
2. is it correct that if you import a new Favorites file, ie a stored
bookmark.htm somewhere, directly from within IE6.0, you will overwrite your
current Favorites list, which are then permanently lost? is there a way to
just append the imported Favorites to the current list?
3. can the original order of Favorites be retained in the Exported
Favorites list? ie, avoid alphabetization?
4. my Favorites list appears slowly often at times, in IE6, after mouse
clicking the Favoirtes menubutton. is there any way from within IE or
Windows XP control panel, to speed up the appearance of the Favorites list?
Thank you so much for expert help! Richard Chiang Pan, Washington, DC 202
829-9732, (e-mail address removed)
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Rich said:
can anyone expert help out with Favorites questions?
1. is it possible to easily "merge" two different Favorites files
that were each created by the Import/Export Wizard? i couldn't find
any way other than opening each .htm file in Microsoft FrontPage and
then cutting and pasting to create the union of the two .htm files.
2. is it correct that if you import a new Favorites file, ie a stored
bookmark.htm somewhere, directly from within IE6.0, you will
overwrite your current Favorites list, which are then permanently
lost? is there a way to just append the imported Favorites to the
current list?
3. can the original order of Favorites be retained in the Exported
Favorites list? ie, avoid alphabetization?
4. my Favorites list appears slowly often at times, in IE6, after
mouse clicking the Favoirtes menubutton. is there any way from
within IE or Windows XP control panel, to speed up the appearance of
the Favorites list? Thank you so much for expert help! Richard
Chiang Pan, ------------, panr9@*****

Hi - don't provide personal info such as your address, phone number, or
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OK, as to your question - I have never tried exporting/importing (I always
copy the whole Favorites folder wherever I wish....and if I need to 'merge'
two, I select all the *contents* of the old Favorites folder & copy them to
the new folder.

That said - try it and see what happens. Make a backup of the 'destination'
Favorites folder first just in case.

Regarding sort order - couldn't tell you. It drives me nuts to see anything
but alphabetical order anyway - I think it's crazy that it doesn't do this
by default.
 
G

Guest

thank you for the good advice. i also learned today there are ways to
preserve nonalphabetical order of Favorites lists, using registry keys and
drive mappings, please see RE: Sharing Favorites 2/8/2005 paulvanderzee and
Re: Sharing Favorites 9/19/2004 Gary Smith, respectively, both at IE6 General
Questions.
thank you again. richard chiang pan
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Rich said:
thank you for the good advice. i also learned today there are ways to
preserve nonalphabetical order of Favorites lists, using registry
keys and drive mappings, please see RE: Sharing Favorites 2/8/2005
paulvanderzee and Re: Sharing Favorites 9/19/2004 Gary Smith,
respectively, both at IE6 General Questions.
thank you again. richard chiang pan

Glad you have things sorted out, and thanks for posting back.
 

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