TSGL: combine bookmarks and favorites

[H Davis]

Chuck,

A simple, but not elegant, solution is to create a folder on your desk 
top and drag each of your existing Bookmarks/Favorites into it (a bit 
tedious perhaps but it has to be done only once). The utility mentioned 
earlier may be able to do this directly instead of dropping the 
shortcuts onto the desktop. Maybe there's an option to specify the 
shortcut destination. This would leave a long list of shortcuts in the 
folder. When you want a shortcut, double click on the desk top folder to 
open it and then click on the desired shortcut. Probably no more clicks 
than accessing a shortcut using another bookmark utility. If a long list 
of shortcuts is too daunting you can create subfolders and organize your 
shortcuts as you please. For new Bookmarks/Favorites you would abandon 
the built in facilities of IE and FF and just drag any new shortcut you 
want to create to the desk top folder or use the utility mentioned 
earlier in this thread to save it to the desk top folder.

If you want a real program, google for "bookmark utility". There is an 
infinite supply of them, many free. You should be able to find something 
out there to meet your needs. Unless you have a really large number of 
Bookmarks/Favorites to copy and merge, a third party utility wouldn't 
need to do this function. It could be done by hand since it would only 
have to be done once. Once you adopted the new utility you would abandon 
the Bookmark/Favorite functions in IE & FF I presume.

H Davis

Chuck Neuenschwander wrote:
>  
>   I use IE and have many Favorites
>   I use FF and have many Bookmarks.
>    
>   Sometimes I'm in FF, want to go somewhere and can't find the Bookmark
>   Have to go to IE to look in the Favorites.  And vice versa.
>    
>   a simple program to combine the two lists, and eliminate duplicates,
>   and present a nice list of choices would work for me.  Again, I remember doing
>   this once, years ago, and it was good. Just not sure what software to try now.
>    
>   -chuck
>
> H Davis <hdavis1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Chuck,
>
> What you describe seems to imply that you might have 2 or even 3 copies 
> of a given bookmark. One in Bookmarks, one in Favorites and one in a 
> third program with the merged set. If you could find a stand alone 
> program to keep all the bookmarks/favorites would you continue to 
> maintain the lists in IE and FF? If so why? I'm trying to better 
> understand what you're trying to do.
>
> H Davis
>
> Chuck Neuenschwander wrote:
>   
>> actually, no.
>> I want the bookmarks in FF and the favorites in IE to be left alone and 
>> each to be able to grow.
>> I want another simple program which will merge the two files, delete dupes,
>> and give me an easy way to use the resulting list as shortcuts.
>> -chuck
>>
>> The Computer Whisperer wrote:
>> I think i'm with you now... you want to be able to search all of your
>> bookmarks from within a browser.... right?
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>>     
>
>   

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H Davis   hdavis1 at gmail.com