Definitely do *not* put Chrome bookmarks in the Favorites folder, and certainly *not* for the reason of "I don't know how to backup Chrome favorites". As well, it is *not* desirable for Chrome and IE to share the Favorites together through the Favorites folder. Separate applications from different software vendors should keep their data/ information/files separate and distinct from one another. It can only lead to problems, conflicts and errors if one software tries to use something designed by another software unless such interaction is specifically allowed. And I cannot say with any certainty that the IE Favorites folder is necessarily designed to be interactively used by other browsers.
As well, all other browsers keep their own set of bookmarks. This only makes sense in terms of bookmark management, and especially for Chrome for bookmark indexing and searching. It would probably be entirely infeasible if Chrome's bookmarks could be changing anytime depending on the contents of the Favorites folder. If you really want to keep your bookmarks in sync between Chrome and IE (and any other browser you may install), you should use a browser agnostic method to do that. For example, Google Bookmarks gadget for iGoogle or del.icio.us or many other web services. Finally, to backup your Chrome bookmarks, you should backup: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data \Google\Chrome\User Data\Default (sorry, I don't know the folder name on Vista) That directory contains all of your user settings, including history, cookies, preferences, and a file called "Bookmarks". You could backup just the "Bookmarks" file or your entire user profile directory. As well, if you create multiple user profiles for Chrome, you will have other "User Data-PROFILENAME" directories, and you may wish to backup those as well. On Feb 11, 7:28 am, BMS <[email protected]> wrote: > There exists a folder for favorites by default in user home folder in > windows, and this is the one that my backup-software is backing up. I > would strongly prefer that Chrome used the same location for its > favorites, because I currently don't know how to backup Chrome- > favorites. > > And an added bonus of this feature would be that Chrome and IE > favorites would always be automatically and perfectly synchronized by > using the same favorites-system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
