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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. |
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09-05-2012, 09:44 AM
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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.
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09-05-2012, 10:09 AM
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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. |
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09-05-2012, 10:26 AM
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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! Last edited by Zeke; 09-05-2012 at 10:38 AM.. |
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09-05-2012, 10:28 AM
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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.
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09-05-2012, 11:21 AM
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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.
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