Hi Does anyone know how to print out a list of the URL's addresses from my Favorites? - I also want to move them to a new computer
Many thanks
Ray
Many thanks
Ray
Printing URL's
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In internet explorer, go file Import/export, you should find your way from there. Once you have saved the file, find it & open it to print.
To copy your favs to another pc, use windows explorer to find you favourites folder and just copy the whole thing to the new machine. Easy
To copy your favs to another pc, use windows explorer to find you favourites folder and just copy the whole thing to the new machine. Easy
trotsky
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If you've got perl then fav2html is fun (if you haven't got perl then get it here .
You can also do something similar with Firefox which will let you import Internet Explorer favourites then export them as a single html page. If you are installing Firefox of course then you could always just stick with that, but it works as a handy dandy converter for "favorites"
You can also do something similar with Firefox which will let you import Internet Explorer favourites then export them as a single html page. If you are installing Firefox of course then you could always just stick with that, but it works as a handy dandy converter for "favorites"
Copying URL's
Thanks for your help guys.
I took the easy option and went the "internet explorer" route as suggested by Lucate.
What is the idea of the perl program though Trotsky?
Ray
Thanks for your help guys.
I took the easy option and went the "internet explorer" route as suggested by Lucate.
What is the idea of the perl program though Trotsky?
Ray
trotsky
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Re: Copying URL's
perl ("programmable extraction and reporting language" if I recall correctly) is the geek equivalent of the swiss army knife. (although geeks all have swiss army knives or leatherman doobries, so that's a crap analogy).
It's a program that allows you to trawl through a file, database, web page, whatever and generally piddle about with what you find. You can do things like extract a set of records from a database, reorganise them, add extra bits, put them all back. To use the example here, the fav2html script runs through your Favorites directory, extracts all the labels for your favorites, then extracts the associated "http://..." bit for each, writes an HTML header and footer and puts all that data in the middle in a way that allows you op[en the output as a web page and to click on 'em.
Basically if you can do it by printing out the file, looking through it and writing out the bits you want, perl will do it. perl will also probably do it if someone says "I wish we could do X, but it just can't be done".
You can spend a week and £1500 learning the basics of it, there are several books, there are abunch of geeks called the Perl Monks who can make it sing and dance (http://www.perlmonks.org/).
Perhaps a more appropriate analogy is that it's the programming equivalent of a fully loaded GS Adventure - it will do almost anything you want but it won't necessarily do it in a pretty way (and there's a reasonable chance you will end up on your arse in the middle of the desert if you get too smartassed with it).
Most people who have come up against it by download it and install it on every machine they go near "just in case". It has got me out of some sticky problems, I like it...
(switches off faintly evangelical geek mode)
RayS said:
perl ("programmable extraction and reporting language" if I recall correctly) is the geek equivalent of the swiss army knife. (although geeks all have swiss army knives or leatherman doobries, so that's a crap analogy).
It's a program that allows you to trawl through a file, database, web page, whatever and generally piddle about with what you find. You can do things like extract a set of records from a database, reorganise them, add extra bits, put them all back. To use the example here, the fav2html script runs through your Favorites directory, extracts all the labels for your favorites, then extracts the associated "http://..." bit for each, writes an HTML header and footer and puts all that data in the middle in a way that allows you op[en the output as a web page and to click on 'em.
Basically if you can do it by printing out the file, looking through it and writing out the bits you want, perl will do it. perl will also probably do it if someone says "I wish we could do X, but it just can't be done".
You can spend a week and £1500 learning the basics of it, there are several books, there are abunch of geeks called the Perl Monks who can make it sing and dance (http://www.perlmonks.org/).
Perhaps a more appropriate analogy is that it's the programming equivalent of a fully loaded GS Adventure - it will do almost anything you want but it won't necessarily do it in a pretty way (and there's a reasonable chance you will end up on your arse in the middle of the desert if you get too smartassed with it).
Most people who have come up against it by download it and install it on every machine they go near "just in case". It has got me out of some sticky problems, I like it...
(switches off faintly evangelical geek mode)
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