How to copy and move Favorites?

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Hi, I have my brothers old hard drive hooked up to my pc. He wants me to
copy his Favorites from his old hard drive and send them to him so that he
can install them onto his new pc.
The question is how to I do this?...On his old hard drive I can get to
documents and settings/my brother/Favorites...that folder shows its 137kb in
size but when I right click and click Send to it only shows as 452 bytes and
as file called Favorites.ink...and he can open that and view the
contents...links etc..he can't open them.
Any advice welcome.
Thanks
 
peejaa said:
Hi, I have my brothers old hard drive hooked up to my pc. He wants me
to copy his Favorites from his old hard drive and send them to him so
that he can install them onto his new pc.
The question is how to I do this?...On his old hard drive I can get to
documents and settings/my brother/Favorites...that folder shows its
137kb in size but when I right click and click Send to it only shows
as 452 bytes and as file called Favorites.ink...and he can open that
and view the contents...links etc..he can't open them.
Any advice welcome.
Thanks
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1. Make a zip file of the Favorites folder

2. Attach that zip to an email to your brother

3. Delete the zip after sending

dadiOH
 
Don't use send to. Open an email message and browse to the Favorite's
location to attach it.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
 
Assuming you are using Internet Explorer:

1) In the file menu, choose Import and Export
2) The Import/Export wizard starts, click next
3) Select Export Favorites, click next
4) The favorites folder should be highlighted, click next
5) Export to a file or address: the default location is probably your My
documents folder, you can change the location, just remember where
it is being saved. Click Next
6) Click Finish.

Attach the file in an email, have your brother save the file to a location
he will find easily. Then he should repeat the above process, using Import
instead of export.
 
Unsure how to do that?
Yes opened an e-mail message browsed to the Favourites folder (which has
about 20 files in it - links to various, together with about 20 sub folders
with links).
How do I attach it?...won't allow drag and drop and when try to attach and
negotiate to the Favorites folder it seems to need me to highlight
individual files of which there are many?
 
Well rats. I can cut and paste the Favorites folder but when I try to
attach it to a message, it wants the files and not the folder just as you
said. Perhaps the best way is as the other poster suggested--make a zip
file and send it. Sorry about the miscue.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
 
Thats ok :-)
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Ron Badour said:
Well rats. I can cut and paste the Favorites folder but when I try to
attach it to a message, it wants the files and not the folder just as you
said. Perhaps the best way is as the other poster suggested--make a zip
file and send it. Sorry about the miscue.

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
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Cheers. Did that. However brov says when trying to Import seems alls well
and at the last min he gets a note - Not a valid bookmark file.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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peejaa said:
Cheers. Did that. However brov says when trying to Import seems alls
well and at the last min he gets a note - Not a valid bookmark file.
Any ideas?
Click to expand...

Tell him not to import them, just unzip into the...

drive letter:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Favorites

folder.


dadiOH
 
He cannot Import a Favorites folder. That is only used on a
bookmark.htm created by an Export.
All he has to do is copy the contents of the folder you sent to his
current Favorites folder.

....Alan
 
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