How do I import my old "Favorites" into my new Mac?

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How do I import my old "Favorites" into my new Mac?

Hi there everyone. I have a bunch of Favorites from old PC's Internet Explorer. I want to bring these over into Safari... When I created a folder in Safari and dragged them into the folder they copied over but the path for all of them is to my machine, not to an address on the web. When I tried Safari's "Import" command it did not recognize any of the .url files (they were greyed out).

How can I move them over?

Thank you,
Margarita

iMac 20" (Intel), Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Feb 18, 2006 10:18 PM

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ritahellas Author

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Feb 19, 2006 8:06 AM in response to ritahellas

Anyone?

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ritahellas Author

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Feb 20, 2006 4:50 PM in response to ritahellas

Is this such an unusual thing? Can anyone help?

Thank you.

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Niel

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Feb 20, 2006 7:16 PM in response to ritahellas

To import an URL file's content into Safari, double-click it in the Finder, and wait for the URL to load in Safari. When it has loaded, choose to add the current page as a bookmark.

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John61254

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Feb 20, 2006 10:05 PM in response to ritahellas

I'm not that familiar with Internet Explorer (I've never liked it; have always used Mozilla or Netscape before Safari), but did you try first exporting your bookmarks from IE first, then importing that file into Safari? It should work.

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Feb 20, 2006 11:49 PM in response to ritahellas

Here's the instructions from a page on this site:

Internet Explorer Favorites
Just follow these simple steps in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Launch Internet Explorer and choose Import and Export from the File menu.
Export your Favorites and save the file as “Favorites.html” on your desktop.
Copy the file “Favorites.html” from the desktop to your external hard drive or Burn folder.

Hope that helps!

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ritahellas Author

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Feb 21, 2006 3:46 PM in response to ritahellas

First off we have the Favorites as 100+ *.url files that came from a PC... so no export command was used.

Regarding the first recommendation of opening every URL and adding it to our Bookmarks would take a long time... there are probably 300 "Favorites" in there.

Is there another way besides Exporting from IE... Since I did not do that and now just have 100s of .url files in one folder on my Mac's desktop?

Thank you for the replies!

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John61254

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Feb 21, 2006 4:28 PM in response to ritahellas

Do you mean you no longer have access to the copy of IE with the Favorites you are trying to transfer?
I don't know of any other simple way to transfer them other than as already described: export the Favorites from IE, then import the resulting file while in Safari.
Otherwise, you may be stuck loading them one at a time when you need them.

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