TEntel

My mom just got a new computer at work and she is having trouble getting her favorites back into IE.

She backed up her old favorites folder and put it back in to My Documents on the new comp.


I can't for the life of me figure out how to get them to show up in IE though. They aren't .htm files, so I can't use the import/export function.

In Vista, I can just drag the folders into the favorites button and that works, but it doesn't work on her XP.

Any ideas? I know this is a n00b question, but I just can't figure it out and I haven't used XP or IE in a long time.

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Tator Tot

Did you make sure their is only 1 Favorites folder?

Or did you make sure she didn't use any special program for favorites?

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TEntel

I am assuming that she just used the little star button to add things to favorites.

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jdub01984

If you go to the C:\Users and Settings\(Whatever your Mom's Username is) There is a folder called favorites. It has an icon that is a star but its actually a folder, just copy and paste from the old machine to the new one. Let me know if that works. Thanks.

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TEntel

Hmm, her old computer is long gone.


She was only able to save the favorites folder located in My Documents.

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WeAreNotAlone

My mom just got a new computer at work

You are running as ADMIN? - I'm thinking the files are protected in some way. - which is not unheard of on a computer being used in a work environment.

In the back of my mind- if you do set files so no-one else can access them- when you migrate to another machine you have to create a account with the same user name /details...

Q:

What format are the files in? json?
What is the file size of the files /folder (There is data there, right?)
Can you see the links?
What version of IE was being used?
What OS was the previous computer running, WIN2000? (Please clarify)
OS she is coming from the same migrating to?


Now a suggestion- that may or may not help... You say the files are not in the htm format- are you sure she was using IE, and not FIREFOX?...

As a suggestion regardless- Make a copy of the files.... and then try to import them into Firefox.

If they do import- and she "has to" use IE... export them back out in the htm format.


Another suggestion: Import to IE via your machine- then export back out and then import to her machine...
(If you can see /use the links on your machine that is a good sign the data is not corrupt)


One more idea if the above doesn't work, Or you don't feel like wasting any more time on the issue researching and whatnot.... Migrating data in a work environment is the IT guys responsibility- he should be well versed about this issue, and it's his job to migrate data.


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