Funny experience with Project Spartan

This must be a bug in Spartan (ya think?):

I have in IE several folders on my Favorites Bar. Two of them are 'Favorites' and 'Links'. Now this works just fine
in IE, but Spartan does not like it. Not at all.
As we all know (or should), the folder in your home directory is called 'Favorites'. And the Favorites Bar is really
called 'Links' if you are at a DOS prompt and doing the dir command.
So when I use these two folders within those folders it just drives Spartan into a tizzy.

I wound up having to delete and reimport all the IE bookmarks but first renaming those two folders. And everything
worked just fine after that.

If anyone is interested, the Favorites folder for Spartan is located at:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft .Windows.Spartan_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Spartan\User\Def ault\Favorites

And a 2nd cute piece of info is the depth of this favorites folder created issues with some of my bookmarks that were
maybe 2 or 3 folders deep on their own and had long filenames. Windows bucked at the full filename that was too long to
save. So IMHO it was stupid for MS to place that folder that deep in the system.

Oh well, all is well now with Spartan, and on to other testing... LOL

On 05/01/2015 03:49 PM, Big_Al wrote:
This must be a bug in Spartan (ya think?):

I have in IE several folders on my Favorites Bar. Two of them are
'Favorites' and 'Links'. Now this works just fine in IE, but Spartan
does not like it. Not at all.
As we all know (or should), the folder in your home directory is called
'Favorites'. And the Favorites Bar is really called 'Links' if you are
at a DOS prompt and doing the dir command.
So when I use these two folders within those folders it just drives
Spartan into a tizzy.

I wound up having to delete and reimport all the IE bookmarks but first
renaming those two folders. And everything worked just fine after that.

If anyone is interested, the Favorites folder for Spartan is located at:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft .Windows.Spartan_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Spartan\User\Def ault\Favorites

Hi Big Al,

¡Ay, caramba! That is one long path. I find the _cw5n1h2txyewy to
be interesting too. Mozilla Firefox has used something like this
garble for a while now. (I had to write a script to figure it
out once. It was interesting.)


And a 2nd cute piece of info is the depth of this favorites folder
created issues with some of my bookmarks that were maybe 2 or 3 folders
deep on their own and had long filenames. Windows bucked at the full
filename that was too long to save. So IMHO it was stupid for MS to
place that folder that deep in the system.

Oh well, all is well now with Spartan, and on to other testing... LOL


I usually put my customer on Firefox right out the door. But,
I am sure, they will have issue with IE/Spartan before they
see me.

Thank you sharing!

-T