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Importing bookmarks from Firefox to IE7
Submitted by Yousif on Mon, 01/05/2006 - 8:56am.
Importing bookmarks from FireFox to Internet explorer 7 (IE7) is really easy and straight forward.
First of all click on the add to Favorates icon in internet explorer 7 and choose "Import and Export..."
This will start the import/export wizard. Click next...
Select "Import Favorites" then click next
Now the "Import from File" is already selected and its the only option. You basically need to locate the path to firefox's bookmark file.
The location depends on your operating system and your windows user name. Also Firefox assigns a random name to your profile but you don't need to know it, it's probably the only folder there.
For Windows 2000 and XP the location of the bookmarks file should be here
C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[RANDOM NAME].default\bookmarks.html
If all went as planned you'll get this window which will allow you pick to the location of your bookmarks
And then when you click next you'll get the message you are waiting for "Success!"
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But does the import delete the existing bookmarks on the computer receiving the new imported bookmarks. Or are the new ones added to existing ones. And what about duplicates in the latter case?
Frustrated [of Yorkshire.]
Importing bookmarks won't
Importing bookmarks won't delete anything from your existing favorites list. They are merely added. Haven't tried importing things twice or more but I trust Microsoft developers not to let something like that happen.
IE bites...here's why
If you have multiple bookmarks with the same name (same tab or header name but different URL's) IE WILL NOT import everything...it will pick 1 URL and the rest get dumped!