I know I can do this, but please help me get my favorites over to my new computer
 

I backed up the old computer but the files are just as hard to find if not harder. In fact, I don't even understand the file naming in the back up external drive. I expected to see the same as I would in Windows Explorer. But I'll leave that for another time.

The old computer is off line, so I can't email myself. Well I could, but....

I want to stick a flash drive in the old unit and transfer my Google Chrome favorites to the new one.

If you open the bookmark manager in Chrome on your old computer, you should be able to find a menu item (under "Organize") that says "Export Bookmarks to HTML..."

It should give you a place to save them. Choose the flash drive.

Then you should be able to plug the flash drive into your new computer and do exactly the reverse--using "Import Bookmarks from HTML..."

This is how it works on the Mac version of Chrome. I can't imagine it would be very different in Windows.

Will try. Makes perfect sense. I'l report back.

I think it's working. Giving it a minute to download into my drive...

The drive is still blinking at 3 minutes. Very slow. That's why the new computer.

Initializing the driver on the new computer...

I can see them, but I don't know if I got them into the folder. I think I'll close Chrome, reopen and see.

No, they didn't import. I have to run something. I'll look around.

One thing about this Windows 7 biz is I can't find "Advanced search."

Us old farts need win98SE.

Got it. Showed up on my task bar as a new folder. "Imported." Good enough, thanks a million!

Glad it worked for you! I agree with you on Win98. I'm 100% convinced that Microsoft keeps changing stuff around just to sell more training courses.

If you use Chrome and have a Google account you can set up Chrome to sync on any computer you open it on. Handy for those with a laptop and a PC. Then there is Google "Drive" which keeps a good number of files syched to the PC's which you run it on and the Cloud - we can trust Google with all its redundant servers not to have them all go bad at once. If you are worried about privacy, then you don't get to play. I have Google set up to require a verification code sent via text if any new computer is used to sign in on. Excellent protection and an alert of malficence.