Will This Work?

[momo]

I am looking for a cheap easy back up for my laptop. Mainly I want to save all of my internet Favorites. It would be nearly impossible for me to find them all again if I lost them. Would it be possible to use a flash drive device to download info that I want to protect?

(Please don't laugh if this is a stupid question. I don't know much about puters.)

[momo]

Yes it will. DS did it for me today while he was here. It took him about 1 minute to do it all without any problems.

[kitaye]

The only problem is the flash drive may lose the information or it can become corrupted. If it an be loaded to a flash drive you should be able to put it on a CD if you have a burner on your laptop.

[Kathy]

Another way to make a back up of your back up is to spend a day putting every address in a message and sending it to your e-mail account; preferably one that can be accessed from any computer.

When thieves stole my PC I would have lost all of my favorites but I had spend one rainy day putting all of them into an e-mail message just about 5 wks earlier. I learned that lesson when my original laptop died and I lost so many sites that I've never found again-I vowed I'd never let that happen again.

I just opened up two windows; brought one up to my e-mail compose and used the other window to copy off each site.

I hope that makes sense-it's much easier for me to do than to explain.

[Deleted]

Here's another option.

IE keeps the favorites in a folder. Firefox keeps the bookmarks in a file. You just copy that folder or file to a flash drive or floppy or whatever and stash it in a safe place. Or email it to your best buddy.

Internet Explorer:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Favorites (copy the whole folder)

Firefox:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<something.default>\bookmarks.html (just the one file)

[momo]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I just welcomed Turtlehead to our forum a few minutes ago in the general area.