Importing favourites

D

dee

I want to transfer my favourites from my old pc to my new
one. I have exported them to a floppy but am unable to
import from the floppy into IE.

The wizard starts & I click 'import favourites' but 'You
can import favourites from another web browser or file'
option is greyed out. If I choose 'Import from file or
address' option & choose floppy and then click what I
want to import I keep getting an 'invalid file or url'
message.

Is there a way of doing it and what am I doing wrong
please?

Dee
 
P

Peter

Can you view the folder on the floppy and right click it and "send to" your
docs and settings?
 
D

dee

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the reply. I have about 40 folders with
subfolders in favourites. They are on the floppy & I can
send them to My Documents but(sorry to be so obtuse!)
what do I do then?
Dee
 
P

Peter

Shoot! I thought you might ask that, and I can't remember how I did it!! I
think I enabled Favorites on the start menu/advanced and somehow put them
in there. I'd have to go through the exercise myself to remember what I
did. On "My documents" there should be a favorites item on the top bar,
well, however I did it I put them in there.
Sorry, I hope someone else can help here.
 
J

Jan Il

Hi dee :)

I hope you and Peter will pardon me for jumping in, but, you might try the
following and see if it helps:

This will explain how to restore your Favorites after you've saved them.
You'll also see how you can add someone else's stored Favorites to your own
Web browser's list.

By saving your Favorites (or "exporting" them) to a single file, the file
becomes usable set of links. It's a Web page all on its own. Double clicking
on it opens it up in any Web browser (not just Internet Explorer). It also
means you can open that single file full of Favorites at any time and use it
just as you would use any list of hyperlinks.

To bring back the Favorites that you saved (or to turn someone else's saved
Favorites into your own), just do the following:

Click the "File" menu in Internet Explorer.
Click "Import and Export."
Click the "Next" button
Click on "Import Favorites."
Then click "Next."
Locate the file you had saved using the "Browse" button and double click on
it when you locate it.

You're done. The Favorites that are in the saved file will appear in your
regular Favorites list, and the saved file will still be around. ("Import"
just copies them. They're not disturbed otherwise.) This way you can share
them or use those you may get from others.

Voila!

If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.

Hope this helps

Jan :)
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IE Favorite Won't Import

Can't save a Favorite bookmark

Courtesy of Alan Edwards:

"Not a valid bookmark file" error
Created by saving an emailed favorites export using File-Save

Open the page in Notepad and remove this first line:

<!-- saved from url=(0022)http://internet.e-mail -->

And: http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers3.htm#favorites
 
G

Guest

Everytime I use the Import function in IE 6 to move my bookmarks.html file
within my Netscape 7.2 directory (on the same laptop) I get the following
message after I push the Finish button, "Error Converting File(s)".

Do you have any idea what's up?

Thanks in advance,

John R. Moriarity, Sr.
 
F

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE

The Mooseman said:
Everytime I use the Import function in IE 6 to move my bookmarks.html
file within my Netscape 7.2 directory (on the same laptop) I get the
following message after I push the Finish button, "Error Converting
File(s)".

Do you have any idea what's up?

Thanks in advance,

John R. Moriarity, Sr.

Using a copy of bookmarks.html, try removing the top line.

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