Exporting Windows Help Favorites

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David Trimboli

Is it possible to export or otherwise share with someone else the contents
of one's Favorites list in Windows Help? How is this accomplished?

David
Stardate 3886.9
 
Is it possible to export or otherwise share with someone else the
contents of one's Favorites list in Windows Help? How is this
accomplished?
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I use a utility called "favtool.exe", which I must have gotten from
Microsoft, since it says "Copyright 1998 Microsoft Corporation" at the
bottom of the screen. Very simple and to the point - it converts Favorites
to Bookmarks (i.e. bookmark.htm file), or Bookmarks to Favorites.

Joe
 
Er, no, I'm not talking about Internet Explorer, I'm talking about Windows
Help. The help system has a Favorites tab which I want to be able to give
to other people, so they can have a list of useful topics in Windows Help.

David
Stardate 3887.3
 
Er, no, I'm not talking about Internet Explorer, I'm talking about
Windows Help. The help system has a Favorites tab which I want to be
able to give to other people, so they can have a list of useful topics
in Windows Help.
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I guess the windows help system does not store its favorites the same way
as IE -- as individual .url files -- otherwise you could have used favtool
to convert them. It must be keeping them in some internal storage location
or the registry because I see no visible evidence of them in the file
system. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I can tell you where they
are stored.

Joe
 
David,
Is it possible to export or otherwise share with someone else the contents
of one's Favorites list in Windows Help?
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Not really, I'm afraid. I'm unaware of any command or tool that will
enable you to export/import lists of favorite topics.

The favorites list is kept in the file hh.dat, which is in this
directory:

\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft\HTML
Help

To access your favorites list, other users would need to overwrite
their own copy of hh.dat with yours. They'd also need to ensure that
both you and they have:

1) The same absolute paths to the help files on your systems.

2) The same version of HTML Help installed. For example, an hh.dat
file created on an system with HTML Help 1.4 components may not work
on an HTML Help 1.3 system.
 
Ah. That's what I was afraid of. Well, thanks for the information, Pete.

David
Stardate 3889.5
 
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