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I want to make a paper copy of the list of favorite sites that I have. I want a permanent copy for
future use. How do I do it?


Thank you,
Jim Y
 
There are probably lots of ways, and here's one: Export your Favorites
(File > Import and Export > Export Favorites) to a file on your desktop
or some other convenient location. The resulting HTML file shows all
your Favorites with live links.
 
Jim Y said:
I want to make a paper copy of the list of favorite sites that I have. I want a permanent copy for
future use. How do I do it?


Thank you,
Jim Y
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I thought I better explain further. I do not want the generic (?) title, but the actual address.
Using the Export produces a list of the generic (?) titles. Reading the Source of that list
displays the address with a lot of excess information which is of no interest to me.

I hope my question is clear now.

Thank you,
Jim Y
 
Jim said:
I thought I better explain further. I do not want the generic (?) title, but the actual address.
Using the Export produces a list of the generic (?) titles. Reading the Source of that list
displays the address with a lot of excess information which is of no interest to me.

I hope my question is clear now.

Thank you,
Jim Y
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As explained before IE has a function on the "File" menu to export
Favorites to a file which consists of an outline style HTML document
full of links. IF your ISP provides web space in connection with your
account you COULD include that document as a page on your site so you
could access it from a friend's computer, a replacement computer or a
public terminal like those in web cafes and many libraries. There's no
requirement to have a link to that bookmark page on ANY other pages on
your web site.

Open any HTML document with IE and print it from the "Print" menu (NOT
the tool bar "print" button). On the "Options" tab of the "Print" pop-up
select "Print Table of links" before clicking the "Print" button at the
bottom of the pop-up.
 
RobertVA said:
As explained before IE has a function on the "File" menu to export Favorites to a file which
consists of an outline style HTML document full of links. IF your ISP provides web space in
connection with your account you COULD include that document as a page on your site so you could
access it from a friend's computer, a replacement computer or a public terminal like those in web
cafes and many libraries. There's no requirement to have a link to that bookmark page on ANY other
pages on your web site.

Open any HTML document with IE and print it from the "Print" menu (NOT the tool bar "print"
button). On the "Options" tab of the "Print" pop-up select "Print Table of links" before clicking
the "Print" button at the bottom of the pop-up.
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I need detailed instructions for solving this problem. I don't know what I am doing.

I have approximately 70 folders with various bookmarks in each and approximately 80 individual
bookmarks additional. From what I understand, I highlighted one of the folders, selected
File>Import and Export>Export and followed the Wizard instructions to save the links (in that single
folder) to a folder on my hard drive. I have no idea on how to save each and every bookmark
simultaneously. I do not care about the folders grouping the bookmarks.

1) How do I get all of the Favorites to move as suggested by Ted? The Wizard (or whatever they
call it) popped up as soon as I hit Export and it handles one folder at a time. I tried selecting
more than on folder without success. I was not given the choice of selecting "Export Favorites",
only Export. What did I do wrong?

2) How do I open a HTML document in IE? Do I have to be online or offline?

Thank you,
Jim Y
 
I downloaded and installed the Bookmark Wizard. It took seconds to give me the list that I wanted.
I saved the list to disk because it was 20 (printed) pages long. That would have taken me days if I
used Export for each link.

Thank you,
Jim Y
 
Just for the sake of closure: You don't export each link separately, you
export all your Favorites with one click. In the Export Favorites Wizard
click on the very top folder called Favorites. And an HTML file is
viewable in any browser or word processor.
 
Ted Zieglar said:
Just for the sake of closure: You don't export each link separately, you export all your Favorites
with one click. In the Export Favorites Wizard click on the very top folder called Favorites. And
an HTML file is viewable in any browser or word processor.
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My top folder is 'API sites', not 'Favorites'. I do not have (and, to my knowledge, never had) a
folder named Favorites. I guess that is a part of my problem. I have IE6 and XP home with SP2
loaded.

Thank you,
Jim Y
 
"I do not have (and, to my knowledge, never had) a folder named
Favorites. I guess that is a part of my problem."

You bet.
 
Ted Zieglar said:
Just for the sake of closure: You don't export each link separately, you
export all your Favorites with one click. In the Export Favorites Wizard
click on the very top folder called Favorites. And an HTML file is
viewable in any browser or word processor.
Click to expand...


I think the OP was complaining about having to use the command
on each subfolder in Favorites. Last time I checked Export Favorites
did not recurse through any of its subfolders; so if he has a lot of them
(which he indicated) that deficiency could be forcing him into a lot of
separate steps to export *all* saved links.


Since he claimed he only wanted the URLs another solution would be
found in a cmd window. E.g.

cd /d %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
for /R %u in (.) do find /i "URL=" "%u\*.URL"


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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Robert said:
I think the OP was complaining about having to use the command
on each subfolder in Favorites. Last time I checked Export Favorites
did not recurse through any of its subfolders; so if he has a lot of them
(which he indicated) that deficiency could be forcing him into a lot of
separate steps to export *all* saved links.


Since he claimed he only wanted the URLs another solution would be
found in a cmd window. E.g.

cd /d %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
for /R %u in (.) do find /i "URL=" "%u\*.URL"


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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The bookmark.htm file generated by my IE lists links three levels deep
in the folder structure, but the link listing on the printed output
seems to break down after a few pages. It may be subject to a maximum
quantity of links it can print out
 
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