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3 Replies Last post: Sep 15, 2008 6:44 PM by unclew  
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unclew
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Sep 13, 2008 2:53 PM

How Do I Remove Old Dead Favorites...


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 My Favorites folder has hundreds of links accumulated over the years, many of which are to sites no longer active.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.

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Adama
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1. Sep 13, 2008 3:35 PM in response to: unclew
Re: How Do I Remove Old Dead Favorites...


unclew wrote:
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 My Favorites folder has hundreds of links accumulated over the years, many of which are to sites no longer active.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

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piyushsingh
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Jul 21, 2007
2. Sep 13, 2008 3:49 PM in response to: unclew
Re: How Do I Remove Old Dead Favorites...
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.
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unclew
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3. Sep 15, 2008 6:44 PM in response to: piyushsingh
Re: How Do I Remove Old Dead Favorites...

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.



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