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Exporting favorites, cookies, address book to CD-RW

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    Dumb questions.

    If I have erased and formatted a CD-RW can I simply export my favorites, cookies etc. Do I need to burn the info to disk once sent there? I see it on the disk, does that mean I don't have to burn it?
     
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    Alicia - never a dumb question if it's important to you :)

    Export your favourites, cookies etc to a folder on your hard drive - burn or drag to your CD-RW depending on which software you use.
     
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    Cookies might be a problem when you restore them unless you use some type of packet writing software (incd, direct cd, etc.) to write them to the cd. If you burn them in the normal fashion, they'll be given the read only attribute and if a website needed to write to one it wouldn't be able too. If you were trying to customize a site like this one I don't know if it would write a new cookie or if the customizations just wouldn't stick. If the latter, it wouldn't be the end of the world but it would certainly be confusing to most and they'd more than likely think something was wrong with their browser.

    So, if you backup cookies, I'd remove the read only attribute once you've copied them back to the hard drive. I thought I'd mention this as it might save some confusion in the future.
     
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    Okay, I'll put them in a folder on desktop and then drag and burn to disk.
    Thanks for the input everyone.
     
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    When I use export feature within address book I get a file(wab file) that is 208KB. When I use export from O.E. file menu using text I get a csv file that is 3 kb?? What opens this file anyway? Why is it only 3 kb?
     
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    Alicia

    csv file - comma separated value - this is basically a text file which will open in Excel, probably in a Works spreadsheet too. Ideal if you want to print out the address book in basic form.

    The one you want is the .wab file which you import through Address Book in OE when restoring.

    The .wab is larger because it is of different format, uses your default font, etc and no doubt may have other background info associated with it, all of which bulks up the file.
     
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    Thanks for the explanation Pete.
     
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