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    Copying favourites

    Nearly completed copying items from and XP disk onto my new disks running Vista. Problem is in copying the favourites. Wont let me copy as a folder or individually. Say I need administrator permission to copy, destination folder access denied. Managed to get other items copied even though some were hard work ie changing premissions etc. I always thought if you had administrator permissions you could access anything on the PC not just files under your user.
    Any ideas about the favourites before I dump them and start again.

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    Re: Copying favourites

    Ive just installed a new copy of XP on a fresh HD, and plugged the old HD in as a slave. Havent had any problems with privalages, but both instals of XP have the same user names (havent a clue if tis makes a difference).

    If youve got the old HD plugged in as a slave open IE, File, Import / Export, Import from a file. You can then select favourites, feeds and cookies, then point it at the favourites on the old HD. Worked for me, cookies thing is handy. I them imported the favs from IE to Opera.

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    Re: Copying favourites

    If you are using Firefox go to bookmarks > organise bookmarks > import > import HTML, then you can browse to your favourites and add them in.

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    Re: Copying favourites

    Quote Originally Posted by Tr0gdor View Post
    If you are using Firefox go to bookmarks > organise bookmarks > import > import HTML, then you can browse to your favourites and add them in.
    MOzBackup can also backup and restore your Firefox favourites,bookmarks, history, extensions, cache etc

    http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

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    Re: Copying favourites

    http://www.foxmarks.com/

    no only can you re-import bookmarks, but you can access them pretty much anywhere!

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    Re: Copying favourites

    Yeah i second foxmarks, very handy.
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    Re: Copying favourites

    Everything seems geared up to Mozilla favourites what about IE?

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