Transfering my favorites list to a laptop.

[KenM]

I'm getting a laptop soon. How do I transfer my favorite sites I bookmarked on my desktop to my laptop? I have IE 6 for both. Also will I have to re enter passwords, ect on the laptop?

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

The easiest way to get most everything is to use the File and Settings Migration Wizard. But, if you just want the bookmarks, its a folder called 'Favorites' in the C: \Documents and Settings\username\ directory. You can just copy it from the desktop machine to the corresponding location on the laptop.

 

[KenM]

One other thing, I have some of my favorites in sub folders, those will copy over as well right? or do I have to open each folder to copy it?

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Yes.

 

[DaveMage]

I'm getting a laptop soon. How do I transfer my favorite sites I bookmarked on my desktop to my laptop? I have IE 6 for both. Also will I have to re enter passwords, ect on the laptop?

If you use Internet Explorer, you can also go to File | Import and Export... | and then a wizard will start and give you the option to import or export your favorites (and/or cookies).

 

[Bront]

Once you have setup the user name on your laptop and logged in once (to create the directory), you can always transfer the entire user directory over. Make sure you do it from a clean reboot, and log in as a different administrative access user to do the copy.

 

[KenM]

Yes.

Yes to what? will they copy over or do I have to copy over each sub folder? Also, if i use the wizard, it won't delete styff from my desktop, just copy them to the laptop?

 

[Thanee]

If you copy the main folder, the sub-folders will copy over.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Once you have setup the user name on your laptop and logged in once (to create the directory), you can always transfer the entire user directory over. Make sure you do it from a clean reboot, and log in as a different administrative access user to do the copy.

I would recommend you not do that. There is a ton of stuff in the user directory that you don't want moved over, a lot of it hidden. The user directory is chock full of program-specific stuff that will either get properly re-installed on the laptop when you reinstall the programs, or, worse case, will overwrite good stuff with invalid data if you've already installed new programs on the laptop. It's also possible to screw up permissions and such.

Nothing unfixable, but still.

 

[Mercule]

I would recommend you not do that. There is a ton of stuff in the user directory that you don't want moved over, a lot of it hidden. The user directory is chock full of program-specific stuff that will either get properly re-installed on the laptop when you reinstall the programs, or, worse case, will overwrite good stuff with invalid data if you've already installed new programs on the laptop. It's also possible to screw up permissions and such.

Seconded. If you don't know what you're doing here, you can get some oddities.