Still here

[Rusty]

My bookmarks disappeared, second time this month. Poof! So if I don't comment much, I'm involved in setting them back up.

Feel free to guess at my verbiage as I do this. Smoke going up, but it's blue in color this time.

 

[Aardvark]

Rusty,

Do you export your 'favorites'/'bookmarks' every once in a while? It sounds like a backup would be a good idea.

 

[Rusty]

Yeah, it would. Unfortunately, I've forgotten how to do so, if I ever knew how. Haven't saved anything onto removable media since my 386 and the days of Windows 3.1. I'll do it sometime, but ...

 

[Aardvark]

Which browser are you using? In IE6, it's under File\Import and Export. This invokes a wizard to do what you want. If you're not having hard disk problems, it wouldn't even be necessary to output it to removable media (though recommended every once in a while).

If it's another browser, I'm sure someone will chime in with instructions.

 

[BruiseLeee]

For Netscape it's a file called bookmark.htm somewhere in the Netscape... folder section.

 

[Bill Martino]

Can't help.

 

[verax]

I'm not sure how you lost them all, but my best guess is that you may have accidently logged in your computer with a different name.

To recover them try this (for internet explorer)

1 - right click on "my computer" and hit "explore".
2 - then left click on "my computer"
3 - then left click on "Local Disk C:"
4 - left click on "documents and settings"
5 - find your user name and left click on it
6 - Then click on favorites to see if they are still there.

If not, go back to step 5 and try a different user name that you might have logged in under.

As last resort click on "administrator" "default user" and "all users" to see if they are under any of them.

Chances are, they are all around there somewhere still.

Might sound like a lot of little steps, but just takes a minute and saves a lot of pain trying to find bookmarks again.

good luck!

Verax