Angie, Yes that is possible. In internet explorer, go into the file menu, alt plus f, and then find export. In this menu option you will be able to export all your bookmarks. The dialogs contains a number of checkboxes, so just turn on favorites and turn off the other ones. They will be exported into one single file. Move that file over to your mac, go to safari, open the file menu, find import, and import the favorites, or bookmarks in safari jargon, from there. Once you have them imported, they will not immediately appear in your bookmarks menu. Instead, you need to find them using a dialog called show all bookmarks. Command shift b. If you stop interacting with the html area in safari where your web page is, then move left with the voiceover cursor and you will find your bookmarks. However, how this works is not immediately apparent to the eye, or to the ear. The left most table shows categories of bookmarks, while the second table shows all bookmarks inside the leftmost table. In the leftmost table with bookmark categories, you will find names like rss feeds, bookmarks bar, bookmarks menu, and other categories. To open a bookmark from here, I found that you can vo shift m on the url of a bookmark, and in the context menu there, you hit vo space on open. Once you've got your bookmarks from internet explorer imported, just scan all categories in safari, to find out where they went. On my machine, they ended up in a category named unknown, and I still have to move them elsewhere as soon as I find how how that is done. For now though, you can access your internet explorer bookmarks again from within safari. For other follow up questions, ask here, and hopefully others will chime in on it.
Hth, Paul. On Feb 9, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Angie Giltinan wrote: > Hi all, > I'm just full of questions today. > being a new switcher, I have loads of IE favorites that I'd like to get in to > safari, Is this possible, and if so, how? > Thanks a bundle > Angie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
