RE: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Hansen Sent: Friday, 30 June 2017 3:58 PM To: Mac Visionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari So far, all of my Google searches have come up empty on an alternative way of g

Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Could Firefox or Chrome on your Macintosh import them? Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jun 29, 2017, at 11:58 PM, Brian Hansen wrote: > > So far, all of my Google searches have come up empty on an alternative way of > getting the favorites in to

Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-30 Thread John Panarese
As far as I know and as far as I've done it for myself and other people is to export the favorites from IE and import the file. I've been told by a friend who is an IT person that you can copy the favorites folder from the Windows side and then choose the import option from Safari and select

Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-29 Thread Brian Hansen
The long way may be his only alternative. Blessings, Brian > On Jun 29, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Kliphton Miller wrote: > > The long way of doing it is just click on each individual one and add them to > favorites in safari, otherwise, he would have to get a friend with a PC

Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-29 Thread Brian Hansen
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

Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-29 Thread Kliphton Miller
The long way of doing it is just click on each individual one and add them to favorites in safari, otherwise, he would have to get a friend with a PC and export those favorites to a HTML file and then import them into safari. > On Jun 29, 2017, at 6:14 PM, Larry Thacker Jr.

Re: Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-29 Thread Larry Thacker Jr.
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

Getting Internet Explorer Favorites in to Safari

2017-06-29 Thread Brian Hansen
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