Paul wrote:
Dick Baker wrote:
Win7 64-bit Home Edition.

I just discovered that my backup utility, FarStone Total Recovery, has
been failing to back up my MSIE Favorites folder,
C:\Users\DB7\Favorites. I poked around in TR and found that when it
looks there, it finds a folder named Favorites 160822. Windows
Explorer shows it as simply Favorites, so I thought TR was nuts.

But when I opened a command prompt and did a directory listing for C:
\Users\DB7, it too reported that the folder was Favorites 160822. And
when I copy that directory to another drive, it shows up there as
Favorites 160822.

I tried deleting that folder and creating a new Favorites, but when I
ran MSIE, it promptly created Favorites 160822 right alongside my
Favorites, and flagged that version as the "real" Favorites directory
with its little star icon.

Thinking that something in the Registry was telling Win7/MSIE 11 to
behave this way, I searched it for the string "Favorites 160822," but
no hits.

So I uninstalled MSIE 11 and 10 (which I was surprised to find still
there) and reinstalled a fresh copy of 11...which then promptly
recreated Favorites 160822.

At this point, I'm out of ideas. Anybody got another one?


On the topic of Exports, it was a load of fun finding the
dialog to do Exports in IE11. I doubt I could do it a second
time, as I don't remember which menu I started with. This is not
easy to find at all.

https://s9.postimg.org/r36m0nafj/favorites_export.gif

So if you can figure out how to get the thing on the left,
the "Add To..." has an Export option under it.

The Export doesn't attempt to preserve any local favicon.

The Export looks like this. There's no XFace style of favicon
in here.

!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1
!-- This is an automatically generated file.
It will be read and overwritten.
Do Not Edit! --
TITLEBookmarks/TITLE
H1Bookmarks/H1
DLp
DTA HREF="https://www.wikipedia.org/"
ADD_DATE="1516341769" LAST_VISIT="1516341769" LAST_MODIFIED="1516341769"
ICON_URI="https://www.wikipedia.org/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico"
Wikipedia/A
/DLp

The shortcut file in the Favorites\Links folder looks like this.

[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=https://www.wikipedia.org/
[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,11
[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.wikipedia.org/
IDList=
IconFile=https://www.wikipedia.org/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico
IconIndex=1

And even though the Process Monitor trace claimed it was writing
a file for the shortcut and a file for the favicon, I couldn't
find the favicon in the Links folder later. The favicon is visually
present in the browser itself, so it's at least temporarily
stored somewhere in the browser.

The webcache.dat is off the hook. Mine was around 27MB, and there
was only a single item that looked like Wikipedia, and it was probably
a cached copy of the main HTML file. Nothing to do with a bookmark.

It looks like in my non-domain non-roaming case, that the
Favorites\Links was enough to save my Wikipedia bookmark.

And the Export worked at least well enough, it might open
in some other browser.

The format of your mis-shapen "Favorites 160822" is similar
to how MSEdge does things in Windows 10. I saw some folder
in there that looked like that, but with a different six digit
number. But you should be able to fix that sort of thing
with the registry entry (in the previous post which I snipped
out of here).

Paul