At some point, you might want to switch your Favorites (your bookmarks)
from Internet Explorer over to another machine. Or, you might want to just
back them up for safe keeping. If you want to EXPORT favorites, start at
step A) .. if you want to IMPORT favorites, skip down to step I).
EXPORTING FAVORITES
(Plan B)
A) Start INTERNET EXPLORER |
This Export/Import technique lets you preserve the order of how your
favorites are arranged (in case you have taken the time to arrange
them) - but it is a slightly longer process. |
| B) Go to the FILE menu, then to IMPORT AND EXPORT. |
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| C) This starts the Import/Export wizard - just click
NEXT. |
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D) Select EXPORT FAVORITES.
(Note, you could export cookies also .. there is usually not much
reason to do so .. the next time you go to some sites, like Amazon .. it
may not remember you, you could always "sign in" again, and it
will make a new cookie. I never copy my cookies over to a new machine
{one more "cleaning out" step that is kind of nice!}.
Also, note the other choice .. Import Favorites - we'll use that at
the end. |
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| E) This gives you a choice of which folders to export
.. usually you want to export the whole favorites folder, but sometimes
you might want to pick just one "branch". (You might see other
sub-folders under the main folder if you have created them .. as long as
the top folder is "open", it will grab all the sub folders - I
just showed a "collapsed" view here, since most people will
probably see this). |
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F) This dialog box askes us for the location of the
export - unless you happen to be switching them over to something like
Netscape ... you probably want to EXPORT TO A FILE - type in the name of
a file, or go navigate to a folder, and then pick a file name (this will
overwrite an existing file - pick carefully!).
This exporting procedure just creates a big giant web page listing
all of the links in your favorites folders. You can go point to that
file and open in Internet Explorer, and you'll see the "exploded"
web-tree of all your links.
Make sure you move this file over to the "new" computer
if you want to IMPORT it (steps shown below)!! |
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| G) That should be it .. here is one last choice to say "wait,
I want to go back and change the location" .. otherwise, click
FINISH, and it will export them to the filename you selected. |
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| H) The machine will pause as it does this, then you
should get the following "ya-hoo" dialog box. Your Favorites
have been stored, either just for backup, or to move to another machine
.. if so, copy that file {from step F above} off the first machine and
down to the next machine! |
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IMPORTING FAVORITES
This assumes we have the "exported html file" from the
previous steps copied onto the current computer - we are going to point
to it and import the favorites. Note : If you already have some new
favorites in IE, and import from an old file - you won't get duplicates,
unless they are named differently.
(So, as a test, if you just want to Export, and then Import again,
to get the feel of it .. go ahead!
I) Following step B) above, go to File then IMPORT/EXPORT and you
should see this dialog box. Select IMPORT FAVORITES and click NEXT. |
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| J) Now, click on the IMPORT FROM A FILE radio-button
and navigate to find the file that contains all the favorites. |
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| K) The "new" Favorites folder should already
be selected. |
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| L) Now click on FINISH, and it will pull in all the
favorites (and put them into subfolders, if they were nested on the old
machine). The machine might pause while it does this. |
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