Save My Bookmarks!

If you're like me, you've spent countless hours locating sites that you find useful. It would be more than a little upsetting to lose all those hard earned bookmarks, right? Well, it can happen, especially if your hard drive expires unexpectedly or you switch computers.

So, how do you save them? Easy!

Explorer:

If you use Internet Explorer, just head to your Favorites folder, located under your Windows Directory. (The fastest way to get there is to right-click your Start button and select Explore. You'll end up, by default, in your Windows Start Menu folder, just scroll up to the Favorites folder).

Slip in a floppy disk, right-click the Favorites Folder, and select Send to, 3 1/2" floppy.

Unless you have several thousand bookmarks, they should all fit on a single floppy, no problem.

Netscape Navigator 6:

For those who use Netscape Navigator, you can export your bookmarks to an HTML file. Here's how

1. Open Netscape and hit the Bookmarks menu, Manage Bookmarks.

2. From the resulting screen, hit File, Export Bookmarks.

3. Stick a 3.5 floppy in and navigate to it via the Export Bookmarks dialog box.

Final Notes:

You should now have a copy of your favorites / bookmarks on disk. If you need to restore them, either to your computer or to another one, just replace the current files / folders with the ones you just backed up. Or, in the case of Netscape, import them through the bookmark management screen.

Note that if you replace a file that has bookmarks already in it, you may overwrite them with your restored ones, so make sure you're careful!

With Explorer, one way around that problem would be to re-name the file on the floppy something like "Old Favorites" and copy it to the regular Favorites folder.

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