[unclew]

Hi. My Favorites folder has hundreds of links accumulated over the years, many of which are to sites no longer active. I remember once reading about a program that scans Favorites and deletes duplicate, inactive and misassociated links. Does anyone know about such a program?

Thanks.

[Adama]

unclew said:

Hi. My Favorites folder has hundreds of links accumulated over the years, many of which are to sites no longer active. I remember once reading about a program that scans Favorites and deletes duplicate, inactive and misassociated links. Does anyone know about such a program?

Thanks.

Hi Wayne! I'm glad to see you back here.

I don't know of any programs like that. I do prune my favorites once in a while though.

To delete those you no longer use this is what you do:

Go to your Favorites. Scroll down to the one you no longer want. Right click on it. Click on Delete - you'll get a window asking if you really want to delete the file. Click on Yes. And that's it!

Easy as apple pie! (with ice cream on top too.) :^0 hehe

[piyushsingh]

Hi
I also prefer the way Adama has mentioned i.e manually removing bookmarks.
But if you have a long list of favorites , then you may try this free utility AM-deadlink. It supports IE favorites . Opera and firefox bookmarks also.
It is advised , you make a backup of the favorites before using this just to be on the safer side. For backing up favorites. Go to file -> import and export and then you can export favorites.

[unclew]

piyushsingh, AM-Deadlink is just what I was looking for. I appreciate the benefit of doing this manually but it would take me weeks to open hundreds of links in a couple dozen folders to determine which are still valid.

Thanks.