Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 24

Does anyone know whether there is a "way" to copy all of my Netscape Bookmarks and IE Favorites to a Memo file on the Visor?

(Yes, I have them safely backed up in separate files on the computer and also on a floppy, but, was just wondering if also having storing a copy on the Visor was "do-able.")

My hard drive crashed last fall, with these files not backed-up. Now I'm especially "leery" of losing all of these links.

Thanks - Lynne

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
Posts: 790

In netscape, click and hold down the Bookmarks button on the toolbar. Select Edit Bookmarks...
Select file->Save As from the window that comes up. Change the file type in the dropdown to .txt and save it. You should be able to send this file to your Visor or copy and paste its contents into a memo in the Palm Desktop.

Registered: Jan 2000
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Posts: 6

How do you do this from Internet Explorer?

Registered: Dec 1999
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On IE5, there is an 'Import and Export...' command in the File menu. It launches the Import/Export wizard, which is pretty easy to use. It doesn't export as a .txt file, only a .htm file. But you can export your favorites as a .htm file, load it into IE5, then do a Save As to a text file.

Registered: Jan 2000
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Problem with that is it saves the pointers as text. I want to save the actual addresses....

Registered: Dec 1999
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Posts: 26

Here's a workaround that takes a little formatting wizardry, but it works...

If using IE, export your favorites to a .htm file. Open the page in IE. Go to View>Source, and save the result as a text file. Then start deleting HTML formatting.

Same thing for Netscape, but you don't have to do the export step. The bookmark file is in the users\(username) folder in the Netscape program directory.

It's a pain to do, but I don't have any programming skills to strip the formatting.

Registered: Jan 2000
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That works, but it's a real hassle, and for me involved another step. I deleted the extraneous material and saved as text, but when I opened the new text file, there were a new bunch of HTML stuff that had been hidden....It's a very long process if you have any quantity of addresses. Is there another way? Sounds easy in Netscape....

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Moved to Clie Land
Posts: 331

Hate to exclude my new toy in this solution, but the best way I have found to have bookmarks available anywhere is save a copy to my free account at xdrive.com and another set at blink.com Both are free and make your bookmarks readily available anywhere in the world...

Registered: Dec 1999
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Originally posted by MIKE STH:
Hate to exclude my new toy in this solution, but the best way I have found to have bookmarks available anywhere is save a copy to my free account at xdrive.com and another set at blink.com Both are free and make your bookmarks readily available anywhere in the world...

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location:
Posts: 170

quote:

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Originally posted by MIKE STH:
Hate to exclude my new toy in this solution, but the best way I have found to have bookmarks available anywhere is save a copy to my free account at xdrive.com and another set at blink.com Both are free and make your bookmarks readily available anywhere in the world...

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Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 24

quote:

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Originally posted by MIKE STH:
Hate to exclude my new toy in this solution, but the best way I have found to have bookmarks available anywhere is save a copy to my free account at xdrive.com and another set at blink.com Both are free and make your bookmarks readily available anywhere in the world...

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Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 47

netscape bookmark file is actually a html file. you can simply save that html file into visor(using isilo).

with IE, export the favorites to a html file, and do the same thing.

ps. if you really want text instead of html, just open that html file, and select all (ctrl+a), and copy, and paste into notepad, and save, and convert into palm format.

[This message has been edited by BabyJohn (edited 02-25-2000).]