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Title: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: Mr_Biggs on February 18, 2006, 06:01:20 pm

Hi, last week my eMachine crashed for an unknown reason, so my parents bought a new Compaq presario. im trying to find the old bookmarks from internet explorer, and put them onto the new drive. ive run the search engine, looked in folders, but i cant find them. any ideas?

Title: Re: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: CoachMcGuirk on February 18, 2006, 06:50:58 pm

What operating system did the emachine have on it?

If it was XP, the IE favorites should be at the following location on the computer:
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Favorites

Where "YOUR_USER_NAME" is the name of the profile you logged in as (i.e. Mr_Biggs).  Could also be "All Users" or "Administrator"

Title: Re: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: USSEnterprise on February 18, 2006, 07:33:47 pm

If Windows Millenium or 98, they are in C:\Windows\Favorites

Title: Re: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: Mr_Biggs on February 18, 2006, 08:16:01 pm

I'm running windows XP, and I alreadly looked in both folders. there are bookmarks in one of the folders, but not the ones i've made. ??? i seriously need help, my parents are throwing a fit over this. ::)

Title: Re: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: AtomSmasher on February 18, 2006, 08:42:07 pm

Quote from: Mr_Biggs on February 18, 2006, 08:16:01 pm

I'm running windows XP, and I alreadly looked in both folders. there are bookmarks in one of the folders, but not the ones i've made. ??? i seriously need help, my parents are throwing a fit over this. ::)

umm, they were correct on where the bookmarks are located.  Do you have explorer set to show hidden and system file and folders?  Otherwise my only guess is compaq did something wierd to IE and stored them in an unusual place.

Title: Re: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: CoachMcGuirk on February 18, 2006, 09:42:28 pm

Quote from: Mr_Biggs on February 18, 2006, 08:16:01 pm

I'm running windows XP, and I alreadly looked in both folders. there are bookmarks in one of the folders, but not the ones i've made. ??? i seriously need help, my parents are throwing a fit over this. ::)

Hmmm...the favorites are stored as short cuts so searching for a certain file extension wont be of much use.  Have you tried searching your entire computer for a folder called "Favorites"?  (it sometimes has the star icon instead of the folder icon.)  If that doesn't produce anything, I'm guessing you're SOL.

Title: Re: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: Harry Potter on February 19, 2006, 08:06:02 am

It's definitely in a folder called favourites. Mine are here:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites

If you're using a user name other than administrator, just swap it and it'll take you there directly.

Title: Re: Moving old files to new computer, having problems.
Post by: USSEnterprise on February 19, 2006, 12:04:59 pm

what about doing a search for *.lnk