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Merging IE Favorites across several pcs?

Discussion in 'Internet Explorer & Microsoft Edge' started by masonite, 2008/09/25.

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    masonite

    masonite Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I have several networked pcs (XPP) running IE6. I'd like to be able to merge their Favorites so as to avoid duplicates, but at the same time, share any new ones that might be on any particular machine with all the others.

    But I don't want to do this online.

    Is there a method, or application, that would enable me to do this offline merging?
     
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    jacrabbit

    jacrabbit Inactive

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    Try copying the favourites folder to a flash drive, then do the same on each computer, once you have done this then back copy the folder to each computer, it should then give you an amalgamated list of favourites on all your computers, maybe a bit time consuming but it will accomplish the job
    Regards
    Jac
     

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    masonite

    masonite Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    You mean copy the contents of Favorites from pc1 to a memstick, then overwrite with the contents of Favorites, pc2 and so on?

    Wouldn't that get a prompt for every duplicate? Or is there a copy command (maybe a bat?) that would only copy files that weren't duplicates?
     
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    Yes it would give a prompt for duplicates but just click yes to all, there may be another way around it, but I haven't that experience, as I said the option I offered may be time consumming, but it would work and you would be offline, another way would be to drag the favouite folder to shared doc's, so you can copy that way?
    Jac
     
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    masonite

    masonite Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks Jac. Seems like the copy process might be the way to go. I have an idea that there might be a few copy apps around with extra facilities, like ignoring duplicates.

    Cheers :)
     

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