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BothHands
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Firefox help
#15107836 - 09/20/11 05:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I want to import my bookmarks from Internet Explorer onto Firefox. The problem is that I already have tons of new bookmarks on Firefox, and I'm scared importing them from Internet Explorer will overwrite some of the ones I already have. I want to import them while keeping my existing bookmarks in firefox (with the exception of duplicates, of course)
Anyone know?
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luvdemshrooms
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Just give it a try. Worst case scenario, you restore your original bookmarks.
Firefox makes a backup copy for you automatically.
The file name will be (date dependent) "bookmarks-2011-09-19.json"
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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luvdemshrooms
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The location of that file is C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\some weird combo of letters and numbers.default\bookmarkbackups
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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BothHands
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Thanks, I'll try that
Edit: Thanks, it added all my IE bookmarks into an IE folder. So It's going to take me like 45 minutes to sort them all, but they're here. 
Thanks
Edited by BothHands (09/20/11 05:43 PM)
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luvdemshrooms
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There's an even easier way now that I think about it.
Bookmarks
show all bookmarks
import and backup
restore
Then you just pick a day.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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frith
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i believe exporting them as an html file preserves how you have them sorted..
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BothHands
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Re: Firefox help [Re: frith]
#15110772 - 09/21/11 07:59 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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They were all sorted. But they were sorted in a separate folder. There was an IE folder when I opened my bookmarks, and inside that folder were all my IE folders, as well as the ones that hadn't been put into folders. But there were many duplicates, so I had to see which ones they were, and delete them. And some folders had some duplicates, and many other non-duplicates, so I had to look through them all, see which one had the bigger folder, and then move the non-duplicates from the smaller folder to the bigger folder. It was quite a hassle, but it's done. I was so tired of going to IE every time I wanted to find something. And it was even more annoying not knowing which bookmarks were in which browser.
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luvdemshrooms
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For next time:
CheckPlaces 2.6.1 (also scans for duplicates)
or
Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.7.5
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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