INternet Explorer disappeared

Kids....Ya got to love'em!!!! It is possible that they moved the app. to a different folder. The dock is just an alias and is linked via a path. So if they moved it the path is no longer valid. Try to find it by closing or minimizing all windows, or until you have the Finder tool bar on top. Click on file>find or just type command(Apple)+f. Choose "Local Disks">Name>Contains> and type in Explorer. If you already did this look for any files that have a .rsrc or .plist

that may be your stored info. I will load Explorer and try to find where these items are stored...

If you find the App. Let me know

Okay, good news & bad news. Your bookmarks can be found in Users>Library>Preferences>Explorer>Favorites.html
"On Panther"
To open the file without IE right click it or hold down the "ctrl"key and click it once. Choose "Get Info" and find the "Open with" and change it to Safari and press return. Close the Get Info window and double click on the file. This will give all your saved bookmarks. The bad news is, if your IE is gone, it's gone forever. Microsoft is no longer supporting Explorer for Mac and you can no longer download it or any updates. If you need another browser other than Safari, I suggest Firefox.

Also there are several free programs to SYNC bookmarks between the different browsers.

Good luck

I am not familiar w/netscape can't help you there.
Try to find a Netscape forum......

P.S. I have children too and I've had some missing items after they played. I set up another acct. for them only and limited their ability to cause havoc on my computer. Just food for thought...
Cheers

Hank,
Have you physically eyeballed your Applications Folder?
If it's still on there, that's where it should reside.

If it's not there,
you might go to the Internet Explorer site (Google for it)
and download version 5 -- I think that's the last one for Macs.

As to your bookmarks, If the apps is gone, you'll have to start over, I'm afraid.

Sorry Bee, IE is no longer available......
You could load it from the install disk but MS does not offer the updates...you would have IE 5.2 only as opposed to 5.2.3 which was the last update.

glynn --
Thanks for the heads up . . .
I didn't realize it was completely gone . . .
It doesn't work well on Macs anyway.
😉

I agree I hardly used it myself. Just kept it around for those few web sites that insisted on it...

There could be several things that happened to it. The two I most commonly see are the app being dragged to a different folder--which is easy to do from the APP window, just drag to the side bar--the other is being re-named. If it is clicked in a certain combination or speed it could allow for the name to be cleared and replaced sometimes with nothing. Check your App. Folder again and see if there is something new or strange there. If the name is changed then the extension may be omitted, which mean instead of the computer seeing an application it only sees a file. The last is if the right-click was used it opens a menu item "Move to Trash"
Then it would have to be emptied..

Hank,
It would make sense that the children could have dragged the alias off the Dock pretty easily. I'm assuming it was an alias, right? Have you looked in the applications folder for it yet?