Worst Case

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

[snip]

I can relate. My current bookmarks include everything I've ever
saved, going back to day one, and I'd bet I never access at least
98% of them. I don't back them up in the hope that they'll
disappear someday and I can start fresh, sort of like you did.

As can I. I just looked and found I have 1.3 MB of bookmarks. Most
of them -- 98% might be about right -- I have not referred after
bookmarking. I wish bookmarks could be organised better. I want to
be able to put them in more than one category.

What browser are you using? In IE, I can put bookmarks in as many
folders as I like.

 

[Don Phillipson]

Is there a way to save my bookmarks on a stick in case my computer breaks
down?

Firefox enables this via / Bookmarks / Show All / Import and Backup.
I expect IExplore and Chrome have similar facilities.

 

[Dave-UK]

Disclaimer. I did that using Classic Shell. I don't know if or how it
can be done in the default Windows 7 Start (Orb) menu.

It can. Right-click Start > Properties > Customize > Favorites Menu.

 

[Gene Wirchenko]

[snip]

I can relate. My current bookmarks include everything I've ever
saved, going back to day one, and I'd bet I never access at least
98% of them. I don't back them up in the hope that they'll
disappear someday and I can start fresh, sort of like you did.

As can I. I just looked and found I have 1.3 MB of bookmarks. Most
of them -- 98% might be about right -- I have not referred after
bookmarking. I wish bookmarks could be organised better. I want to
be able to put them in more than one category.

What browser are you using? In IE, I can put bookmarks in as many
folders as I like.

Firefox.

Yes, I can do that, but what I was thinking was that I want to
have them connected. For example, I could classify a joke about how
IT and general business folk interact as being in the categories of
Computing, Business, and Humour, and the bookmark could be edited to
add or drop categories.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

save a copy of the browser .exe on the drive.

Thank you for the LOL.

All the *intentional* humor I've read so far today wasn't funny.

 

[Nil]

Yes, I can do that, but what I was thinking was that I want to
have them connected. For example, I could classify a joke about
how IT and general business folk interact as being in the
categories of Computing, Business, and Humour, and the bookmark
could be edited to add or drop categories.

Firefox supports bookmarks tags. You can assign a bookmark any
number of arbitrary tags; you can then filter and search by those
tags. You can also use Keywords and long descriptions.

I haven't taken much advantage of those features, but one of these
days soon I'll take a little time and try to organize my bookmarks
better with some good, logical tags.

 

[Char Jackson]

If you are using IE, you can go a step further and put your Favorites
folder on your Start menu and go to bookmarked sites without even
loading your browser first.

I don't use IE, but that's a cool tip for those who do.

 

[Zaidy036]

Is there a way to save my bookmarks on a stick in case my computer
breaks down?

use the "FEBE" extension

 

[Iceman]

Char Jackson wrote June 14th 2012 in

I can relate. My current bookmarks include everything I've ever saved,
going back to day one, and I'd bet I never access at least 98% of
them. I don't back them up in the hope that they'll disappear someday
and I can start fresh, sort of like you did.

Talk of being "haunted by your past".

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

It can. Right-click Start > Properties > Customize > Favorites Menu.

Ah! So it can! Thank you.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I don't use IE, but that's a cool tip for those who do.

I bet you could still use it. Just drag the address you want to
"bookmark" from the address bar and drop it into the appropriate folder.
If your Brand X browser is set as the default, it should pick up any
link shortcuts.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I bet you could still use it. Just drag the address you want to
"bookmark" from the address bar and drop it into the appropriate folder.
If your Brand X browser is set as the default, it should pick up any
link shortcuts.

My related habit: when I download a program or whatever, I drag a
shortcut from the address bar into the download folder. Dragging from
the tab doesn't work in FF - that action just opens the tab in a new
window.

That way the website associated with the download is easily accessible
from the folder where the app is saved.

This works best if each app is in its own directory somewhere in the
Downloads tree, of course.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

use the "FEBE" extension

Which according to what I found online saves extensions, not bookmarks.

"FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and
easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just
backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into
installable .xpi files."

Found at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/febe/

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Which according to what I found online saves extensions, not bookmarks.

"FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and
easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just
backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into
installable .xpi files."

Found at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/febe/

OTOH, further down the page is this:

"FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, bookmarks, preferences,
passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can
even backup/restore your entire profile). You can selectively restore
only the items you need. For instance, you may just want your bookmarks
restored and leave everything else as it was."

The best I can hope for is that you got a good laugh out of my error

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

OTOH, further down the page is this:

"FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, bookmarks, preferences,
passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can
even backup/restore your entire profile). You can selectively restore
only the items you need. For instance, you may just want your bookmarks
restored and leave everything else as it was."

The best I can hope for is that you got a good laugh out of my error

Now I've read the whole write-up. FEBE sounds like a great tool...

 

[Question Quigley]

Is there a way to save my bookmarks on a stick in case my computer
breaks down?

Save them on a flash drive, external hard drive, camera card (like SD),
or a floppy. It makes sense to have an external hard drive to keep a
backup of all your important files. Eventually, you will want to do a
clean install of all your software, so you need something to backup your
data.

If you are using IE, then just export the file from within IE.

 

[richard]

Is there a way to save my bookmarks on a stick in case my computer
breaks down?

As an experiment on this issue, I copied all of the Mozilla folders where
Firefox is stored onto another drive.
I then opened that copy and delteed an item in that copy's bookmarks.
After doing that, I then opened the original copy.
Finding that the bookmark had been deleted there as well.
Which means that Firefox is storing the bookmarks in a location outside of
those folders that the exe is in.
Where, I have not pinned down yet.

 

[Nil]

As an experiment on this issue, I copied all of the Mozilla
folders where Firefox is stored onto another drive.
I then opened that copy and delteed an item in that copy's
bookmarks. After doing that, I then opened the original copy.
Finding that the bookmark had been deleted there as well.
Which means that Firefox is storing the bookmarks in a location
outside of those folders that the exe is in.
Where, I have not pinned down yet.

The answer to that question is common knowledge. You can find it out in
a minute with a quick internet search.

(hint: unless you've jumped through hoops to locate it elsewhere, every
copy of Firefox will use the same bookmarks found in the default
location. %APPDATA%)

Your experiment doesn't have much to do with the issue being discussed,
though.

 

[Evan Platt]

The answer to that question is common knowledge. You can find it out in
a minute with a quick internet search.

(hint: unless you've jumped through hoops to locate it elsewhere, every
copy of Firefox will use the same bookmarks found in the default
location. %APPDATA%)

Your experiment doesn't have much to do with the issue being discussed,
though.

It's bullis's MO. He'll try to somehow prove his original statement of
"save a copy of the browser .exe" is somehow 1. a solution to the OP's
question, and 2. somehow related to what the OP wants to do.

 

[Martin Edwards]

Yes, or synchronising copies of them to a server somewhere, but it'd
help it you mention which browser you use?

Firefox.