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Ismael

Hello,

I am using WinXP Pro with IE 6. I would like to browse and permanently save
some WebPages offline. The use of the FAVORITES feature that marks the
weblink for offline viewing is a good feature until you delete everything
from the TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER including all offline content. How does
a person back up and restore the "FAVORITES and TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER".
Once backed up is there a way to synchronize the backup with the original
"FAVORITES and TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER"? I've already moved the FAVORITES
folder from (the original location) on the C: drive to the D: drive. How do
I move the TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER? I would like to be able to save my
web pages and have the links in those WebPages active (active meaning that
if I click on one of those links offline it will ask to go online should the
content not be available offline. Once it retrieves that webpage online it
should link and add it to the webpage that was offline. Should I not want
the newly retrieved webpage I should be able to delete only that newly added
webpage. I don't want to back up everything in the TEMPORARY INTERNET
FOLDER only the content marked for offline viewing. If I should need to
restore from backup the FAVORITES and TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER will the
links marked for offline viewing inside the FAVORITES folder still point to
the correct files in the "TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER"?


Thanks to all who reply,

Ismael
 
Hi Ismael :-)

Here's a couple of ways to backup and save the Favorites:

FavOrg: To save Favicons - Free
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Bookmark-Managers/favorg.shtml

This allows you to save them permanently in a different folder and
re-associate your favorites with the stored icons. It also verifies whether
your links in Favorites are stll good.

BackRex - Internet Explorer Backup - Free Download
http://www.backsettings.com/internet-explorer-backup.html
Backsup all IE files, including Cookies and Favorites
I use this program and like it very much.

Hope this helps.

Jan :)
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Thanks for the reply...but BackRex - Internet Explorer Backup does not
backup the Temporary Internet files associated with webpages that I want to
keep. I don't only want the links to the webpages but the actual content of
these webpages in case I want to refer to them offline. Yes I could always
resynchronize the webpages but what if the webpage owner or server are no
longer available? If I need to do a clean install of WinXP pro, I would
like to restore these webpages into the "Temporary Internet Files" and have
the weblinks already set to synchronize in the Favorites folder. Now I'm
thinking if I could just move the Temporary Internet Files off the C: drive
and onto the D: drive or better yet have two "Temporary Internet Files".
One to contain only true temporary internet files (This I don't need to
backup and can stay on the C: drive) and one to contain websites I want to
permanently keep (It could go on the D: drive but I would like to be able to
backup and restore it) and synchronize to the web for new or additional
webpage content when needed or wanted.

Thanks to all who reply,

Ismael


Jan Il said:
Hi Ismael :-)

Here's a couple of ways to backup and save the Favorites:

FavOrg: To save Favicons - Free
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Bookmark-Managers/favorg.shtml

This allows you to save them permanently in a different folder and
re-associate your favorites with the stored icons. It also verifies
whether your links in Favorites are stll good.

BackRex - Internet Explorer Backup - Free Download
http://www.backsettings.com/internet-explorer-backup.html
Backsup all IE files, including Cookies and Favorites
I use this program and like it very much.

Hope this helps.

Jan :)
MS MVP - IE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
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Hello,

I am using WinXP Pro with IE 6. I would like to browse and permanently
save
some WebPages offline. The use of the FAVORITES feature that marks the
weblink for offline viewing is a good feature until you delete everything
from the TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER including all offline content. How
does
a person back up and restore the "FAVORITES and TEMPORARY INTERNET
FOLDER".
Once backed up is there a way to synchronize the backup with the original
"FAVORITES and TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER"? I've already moved the
FAVORITES
folder from (the original location) on the C: drive to the D: drive. How
do
I move the TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER? I would like to be able to save my
web pages and have the links in those WebPages active (active meaning
that
if I click on one of those links offline it will ask to go online should
the
content not be available offline. Once it retrieves that webpage online
it
should link and add it to the webpage that was offline. Should I not
want
the newly retrieved webpage I should be able to delete only that newly
added
webpage. I don't want to back up everything in the TEMPORARY INTERNET
FOLDER only the content marked for offline viewing. If I should need to
restore from backup the FAVORITES and TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER will the
links marked for offline viewing inside the FAVORITES folder still point
to
the correct files in the "TEMPORARY INTERNET FOLDER"?


Thanks to all who reply,

Ismael
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Ismael, this isn't really a complete answer to your question, but it
might help. There are two different kinds of Temporary Internet Files,
stored in the same folder, but only one kind or the other is visible in
a single window. In XP, if you go into My Computer [Windows Explorer]
and follow folder levels down through Drive C: / Documents and Settings
/ [my logon] / Local Settings / Temporary Internet Files, you see a
bunch of files listed. I'm not sure exactly what these files are, or
whether they are real or "virtual" files; they seem to be just
pointers. If you double-click on one, you get the warning message
"Running a system command on this item might be unsafe. Do you wish to
continue?"

However, to see the other kind of Temporary Internet Files, which are
what you want, the easiest way I know of to access these is to
rightclick on Drive C:, and choose Properties. Now choose Disk
Cleanup, highlight Temporary Internet Files, and choose View Files. At
this point a new window will open, displaying your Content.IE5 folder
and some 16 to 20 subfolders, none of which had been displayed in your
original window. These various subfolders, with randomly assigned
8-character alphanumeric names, contain real files automatically
downloaded from every website you've visited. A few file types
contained here Windows can't or won't open, but most are readily
opened; and so far as I know, any or all of these can simply be Copied
to any other folder or drive in your computer. Or, if you wish, they
may be individually deleted. Notice that in this new window the files
displayed in the original window are now hidden, and that although
there are similarities in the files' names in the two windows, they are
actually different, and there are differing numbers of them.

Last month I posted a question
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ae5e82d6f81/a797bce17498a344#a797bce17498a344
pointing out dissimilarities between the two different kinds of files
and asking if anyone could explain the difference, but no one has
responded at that thread, and it's now closed to replies.

You might also want to look at a very old post at
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...8f33be32608/2b9bbcc590c576c1#2b9bbcc590c576c1
where Ronnie Vernon MVP discusses TIF files as being simply illusory
pointers. I'm puzzled by his discussion because he refers to the
subfolders of Content.IE5, but the files that are in these subfolders
are definitely "real" -- they can be viewed, copied, moved, and
otherwise manipulated.

Does anyone understand what's really going on here?
 
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