Re: Importing favorites from desktop to laptop
- From: "Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:15:43 -0500
Favorites for Internet Explorer are ordinary files within windows explorer.
Thus, they can be copied as easily as any other file.
If the new and old user were on the same PC, the copy & paste would take
only seconds.
Since you are dealing with two PCs, the trick is how to trasnfer the files
that represent the favorites. In most cases a floppy is large enough. A
USB pen drive would certainly work. But, emailing a ZIPed file should have
worked too.
However, you might want to verify that you can create a new favorite from
outside of IE6. To do this, take any favorite that exists within IE6, found
in you documents and settings area, then copy it somewhere else. Next
right-click, properties and you should see two tabs called "general" and
"web document". Change the field on the general tab to something like
"test" without the quote. Change the field on the web document tab to any
valid internet site. For example http://www.cnn.com/, without the quotes.
Press "apply" and close the properties popup. Now try to copy this new
favorite back to your documents and settings folder for favorites. If the
copy works, open IE6 and see a new favorite and try it, and know that a
simple copy should work. If the copy fails, you have some sort of
permissions problem that nees to be fixed.
Note that XP somtimes is overly protective and that even the same user name
with the same password on two separate PCs can not share files. The fix is
usually to use the power of the PC administrator to "take ownership" of the
files. Alternatively, try to be sure that the favorites are not
private/protected/encrypted, etc before you move them between PCs.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech
For this case I would not bother with the import/export wizard.
However, if you wanted to move an entire hotmail account, then the XP
file-and-settings-transfer wizard might be the wa to go.
"Lester Salans" <lsalanslbsadvisorsinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:udfcmCkuFHA.2948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have saved my Favorites from internet explorer in my desktop and the
>desktop. I then emailed them to my laptop and saved them on the laptop
>desktop. I go to internet explorer on latop and click imort/export. I
>follow the wizzard and always end up with an error saying I don't have
>permission to import this file. See administratior for permission. i am the
>administrator but don't know how to give permission.
>
> Can someone help me transfer my bookmarks from my desktop to my laptop in
> internet explorer.
>
> Thank you
>
> Lester
>
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