Cannot add more webpages to Favorites

I have many folders and subfolders in my FAVORITES in Internet Explorer 7. Now I cannot add any additional webpages (or, at least they do not show up when I click on the subfolder into which I have tried to save a new webpage; however, when I try to save it a second time, I get the message that I have already saved it; yet, I don't know how to view it). Is there a limit to the number of favorites I can save? Is there a way to get around my problem. Thanks.

 

I hope this is where I can send a thank you to Steve R. Jones, BBS staff member, for replying to my query whether there is a limit to the number of FAVORITES you can have in Internet Explorer 7. (He said yes, that he thought it was ~ 753.) I was having problems not being able to add additional favorites, but, when I tried to add the same webpage to the same folder/subfolder a second time, I got the message “the name you have entered already exists on your Favorites menu: Would you like to override it?” The name of the webpage was not visible, so I was confused when the message indicated that the name was in my Favorites.

I think that in fact I must have exceeded the maximum number of Favorites, for when I deleted some web pages from a folder, or even an entire folder, some of the previously "invisible" links I had tried to add DID appear. It also seems that when I deleted some links ( "favorites "), then I could add new links to folders that had names starting with letters in the alphabet that preceded the deleted folders, but I still could not add favorites to folders that had names beginning with letters in the alphabet that occurred after the deleted folder. For example, I deleted a folder, named "Microsoft ", which contained a number of links. I then could add new links to a folder called "Computers ", but still could not add new links in a folder called "Pets." When I deleted more links in folders that had names that come before "P" in the alphabet, then I could add (and see) links I added to Pets.

I need to make sure what I have said holds, but for now it looks like my problem was having too many favorites. So, thanks, Steve. mmplatt

 

I currently have 1460 favorites in 229 folders. Never had a problem adding or deleting or accessing any of them.
Currently with IE 8 (on XP pro SP3), but the list was the about the same when I was running IE 7 (and IE 6).

Maybe if you have deeply nested subfolders that might be a problem. Mine are only 2 deep.