COPYING YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES
TO A SAFE PLACE
By Yvonne Davenport
You should back up your work files (documents, income tax records, digital photos, personal financial records, important e-mail messages, etc.) on a regular basis in order to avoid a major loss of important records in the event your hard drive should fail. As with all backup sessions, its is strongly recommended you not back up to the same drive on which your important data are stored. This means that because your current data are probably stored on your hard drive (C), it’s dangerous to keep your backups on the same drive. If disaster strikes your hard drive, you’ll lose both the primary data as well as the backups.
If you amass a fairly impressive collection of Favorites organized, perhaps in tidy folders for quick and easy reference, you may wish to back them up. True, if you lost these, it wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it sure would take a while to re-create that whole list just the way you like it. So you may wish to back them up, it takes about 30 seconds of your time to back up your Favorites.
To copy your Favorites to another location:
1. Insert a blank floppy disk* into the floppy drive
2. Open your Internet Explorer browser
3. Click on File on the Menu Bar
4. Click Import And Export. This starts the Import/Export wizard
5. Click Next and click Export Favorites. If you want to back up the
entire list, just leave Favorites highlighted and click Next
6. On the next screen, you’ll see that IE defaults to storing your backup file in the My Documents area of your C: drive
7. Click on Browse. In the Save In dialogue box, click on the down arrow immediately to the right of the My Documents bar and then click on 3 ½ Floppy (A) to store your Favorites on a floppy. Then click Next and then click Finish. Then remove the floppy from your floppy disk drive and store it in a location away from your computer. Note the name of the file is: bookmark.htm.
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*Some of the new computers are not equipped with floppy disk drives, but with CD “burners.” If your new computer does not have a floppy disk drive, then you will want to save the exported Favorites to your Desktop for temporary storage and then transfer the file to a compact disk following the instructions provided by the compact disk manufacturer. (Windows XP has a user-friendly CD burner application that comes with the operating system. This application will be demonstrated during the presentation.) If your computer has a second hard drive (internal or external), a zip drive, or a thumb drive, you may wish to consider one of them as an additional option for storing backup data.