favorites in msn 8

[Stacey]

I just connected to Comcast Broadband and I can't find a
way to save my favorites in MSN8 so that i can import
them into IE6. Has anyone done this before? Can you
tell me where i can find the favoties file so i can
import to ie6?

Thanks

Stacey

[Kuay Tim]

Hi Stacey,

 

There is no way to do this directly, however, thanks to Patrick Philippot there is a means to accomplish the task.

 

Patrick posted this information (in this group) on 9-06.

 

 

FYI

I'm getting a lot of e-mails about this toolkit allowing to migrate MSN
favorites to IE (it's available at
http://www.mainsoft.fr/freeware_en.htm). The questions are always the
same so maybe I should give the answers here in order to limit the
flood... :-)

1. Location of favorites.xml
This file is marked as hidden / system (please set the Search options
accordingly when using Explorer to locate this file) and  is usually
located in
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\MSN6\UserData\{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx}.

2. Script failure
There are two known reasons that can cause the script to fail.

2.1. Your copy of MSXML is not up-to-date. Please go to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/xmlgeneral.asp
and download and install either Microsoft XML parser 3.0 SP4 or
preferably Microsoft XML Core Services SP2 (msxml.msi).

2.2. Some of your Internet Shortcuts may contain foreign characters from
non-western languages that can cause the XSL transformation to fail. In
that case, try to remove these links before proceeding.

Otherwise, everything should work without a hitch.

Regards.

--
Patrick Philippot - Microsoft MVP [.Net]
MainSoft Consulting Services
www.mainsoft.xx
(replace .xx with .fr when replying by e-mail)

--
Tim K.
Lynnwood, WA

 

 

Stacey <sswad...@msn.com> wrote in message news:3af601c3761f$ed1b02e0$a301...@phx.gbl...

[Val - Microsoft [.NOT MVP]]

s,

 

KT provided you with the "work-around" you requested.

 

Go for it if you enjoy the challenge of "it's the principal..."

or,

 

why not just invest the same amount of time and energy in learning how to accomplish the same goal without the "training wheels" of an aol or msn?

 

If you'll spend a few minutes reviewing posts on this NG you'll see that "has anyone done this before?" really is a pretty silly question...it's been asked and answered literally hundreds of times.

 

More importantly, some (a minority no doubt) have gleened the larger truth by being involved in the process - with any luck you will be one of those.

 

msnATE is an AOL wannabee - plain and simple.

 

If you want "training wheels" - that's fine, it's your decision, but at least be smart about it and go with the leader.

 

When it comes to training wheels for newbies - aol is the hands down pro in the field. They've done it since day one and they've gotten pretty good at what they do.

msn looked down their nose at aol for years (as did, and still do, the msn shills to this day).

 

Somewhere along the line (might have had something to do with the fact that aol made money and msn lost money year after year) the softies decided to emulate aol's business model...hence the 'aol wannabee'.

 

If it doesn't tell you something that msn is still losing money, that they (msn) still can't figure out the simpliest of issues (import favorites...make a webcam work...etc...etc) - it should.

 

Or....stick with a loser because you got a "two years free" deal, or comcast told you "free msn", or whatever- choice is yours

 

val

micro$oft {dot.NOT.dot.NET.dot.NEVER} - mvp (since 1950)

 

"Stacey" <sswad...@msn.com> wrote in message news:3af601c3761f$ed1b02e0$a301...@phx.gbl...

[Earle Horton]

One hesitates to admit that the CD that came with MSN DSL, or that was "required" to access MSN dialup, has nothing whatsoever useful on it, but I have come to the conclusion that this is indeed the case.

 

I remember fondly when Microsoft shipped the first version of MSN with Windows 95 (or was it 3.1?), and then promptly fired the program manager responsible for it.  Where did they go wrong since?

 

Earle

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