As a rule, a user deals with a difficulty to export bookmarks in two situations:
- First, when he or she deals with one computer and shifts web browsers. Since every browser manages bookmarks differently you will never see your links from Firefox in IE or Chrome and vice versa. What you need to do is to export your bookmarks.
- Working with several computer at home, at work, at the parent’s house, etc. Is very usual for many. And every time it’s needed to export bookmarks from one location to another. Don’t you think, it’s not very convenient?
You can take use of 4 simple methods to export bookmarks:
- Creating a backup file and storing it on your machine.
- Copying the file to portable drives.
- Saving the file in Internet.
- And, finally, exporting bookmarks to new environment.
Backup File
No matter how large your list of bookmarks is, you can save it in one backup file. This way, you can transfer the file whenever you need. Creating the backup file is not as hard as one may think, though each web browser, once more, fulfils it in its own way.
In Firefox, go to “Bookmarks” in the upper toolbar and choose “Organize bookmarks” (Ctrl+Shift+B). In the opened window “Library”, click on “Import and Backup” at the top and “Export HTML” later. The browser keeps your bookmarks as an html-file. It is strongly advisable to store the file on the local disk other than C.
IE requires the help of a Wizard menu. Start with “File” on the top toolbar and open “Import and Export”. Then, choose an action “Export Favorites” and the location you want to export bookmarks from. At last, you have the same html-file as in Firefox.
Copying backup to portable drives
When you have a backup file, it can be copied to any CD or flash drive and taken with you or be hold in a safe place.
Saving backup in Internet
Internet creates excellent opportunities to store backups online for free. All you need is to sign up at any bookmarking service.
Do you know that you can store backup in your own e-mail without wasting time on accounts? Just send a message from your e-mail box to …yourself as recipient. And don’t forget to attach the backup file. You’ll receive it in a moment. Star this letter so that you could access your bookmarks whenever you need, anywhere. The backup file can be opened or downloaded from email on any PC and imported into a browser or any outer bookmark manager. What a convenient life hi-tech provides!
Export bookmarks to new environment
All major browsers allow to import bookmarks from a backup file by “drag & drop” service. In Firefox or IE one can move the file from the disk or portable drive to a new window. There is no even necessity to open the file.
Captious users take use of bookmark managing tools. They can be portable, visual, desktop-style, etc. No matter what software you use, usually it lets you export bookmarks much easier and faster.
Tips for saving bookmarks
Those users who constantly lose their bookmarks, now can store backups in various locations: on a local disk of your computer, on a USB drive, in a web-based bookmarking serviceand in any bookmark manager database.
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