Could Firefox or Chrome on your Macintosh import them?
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 11:58 PM, Brian Hansen <ozark.bluesma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So far, all of my Google searches have come up empty on an alternative way of
> getting the favorites in to Safari. It seems that unless they’re exported
> out of IE, then there’s no way to get them into Safari. I would have thought
> that someone would have come up with some kind of third party app to handle
> the conversion process. Oh well.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Brian
>
>> On Jun 29, 2017, at 5:14 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> There might be a better way, but all I can think of would require a friend
>> with Windows willing to help. Windows 7 retains this scheme and I think
>> Windows 10 does as well but I didn’t use that for long so I am not
>> completely certain. If the favorites were copied to a subfolder under the
>> favorites on another Windows instance, then I think Chrome or Firefox would
>> be able to import them. They could then be exported again to a bookmark
>> file that Safari can import. But before going to all that trouble I’d just
>> do a search of the web and see what turns up.
>>
>>> On Jun 29, 2017, at 1:25 PM, Brian Hansen <ozark.bluesma...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> A friend of mine has replaced his dead PC with a Mac mini. He has a backup
>>> folder containing all of his IE favorites that he would like to some how
>>> import into Safari so they all don't have to be recreated by hand. Since
>>> they were not exported out of IE, they are in their individual files and
>>> sub-folder structure straight out of Windows XP. Is there a way to import
>>> them in and/or copy them into Safari in their present state, or is he just
>>> out of luck on this one? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Blessings,
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
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