lost all my bookmarks - need help

dakotasin · Oct 26, 2003

my computer recently crashed, and i lost all my bookmarks. i got some of them back (like this one) because i remembered the address... but all the sights for firearm sales, etc, are gone.

any help?

Preacherman · Oct 26, 2003

Which browser are you using? I can let you have a list of my Firearms links for Internet Explorer 6, exported as an HTML file, which you can then import into your browser if it's compatible with such importation. Warning - I have hundreds of them, so it'll be a LOOOONG list!

I'll need your e-mail address to send them. Please PM or e-mail me if you want them.

son of a gun · Oct 26, 2003

If you have Windows ME it has a system restore command that restores your computer to an earlier state, when you had the book marks.

sm · Oct 26, 2003

Nevermind.
I'm still adding to my list after installing a new HDD.
Besides, Preacherman I hear has a separate external HD just for firearm stuff

Sorry, couldn't resist.

dakotasin · Oct 26, 2003

when i say my computer crashed, i mean everything fried - it is not repairable. i have a new computer now...

preacherman - that list sounds great, but, i have no idea how to import and export stuff... i'm willing to learn, though if you want to walk me through it?

Peetmoss · Oct 26, 2003

dakotasin

It is very unlikely everything is fried. Unless of course you got a lightning stike or some other freak of nature. May I suggest you contact a computer repair shop( Not best buy or compusa). They will probably be able to either resurect your dead computer or move your important data from you old hard drive to the new computer.

TheeBadOne · Oct 26, 2003

Crashes stink. I hope you're back up to full strength soon.

George Hill · Oct 26, 2003

Here are some cool links...
http://www.madogre.com/Links.htm

dakotasin · Oct 26, 2003

peetmoss- yeah, we had a power spike. i've got a surge protector, but evidently it didn't work properly...

bad one- yeah, really sucks. i'm about 50% back. had win 98, now have xp - and i'm not at all comfortable w/ xp yet.

george- thanks for the link. i will check it out now.

DragonRider · Oct 26, 2003

See if these help??

John's Startpage Firearms

I use this instead of Bookmarks, the original is resident on my hard drive and I do have a back up on some other computers in my house.

HTH

John

dakotasin · Oct 26, 2003

also looking for links to milsurp dealers, and that kind of thing... i have aim surplus and cdnn, but that's it...

appreciate your help fellas.

BlkHawk73 · Oct 26, 2003

Here's a few that should cover most bases for you.

http://home.attbi.com/~americanfirearmpage/
www.webcom.com/gun_guy/
www.firearmslinks.com/
www.themachineworks.net/directory.htm
http://shaka.com/~par/arms.html
www.gunnersden.com/
www.igun.com/

k say · Oct 26, 2003

thanks, i too suffered a hd faliure ,thats the good stuff

1911Fool · Oct 26, 2003

Sorry to hear about the Crash. Thanks for reminding all of us to backup our bookmarks. I have been in your situation before and know what a pain it is lose all those hours of web surfing due to data loss. I will E-mail you "guns for sale" folder and see if you can use it. It is for MSIE 6.0.
Good Luck,
Mike

son of a gun · Oct 26, 2003

You may want to hook up your old hard drive to your knew computer to see if the data can be retrieved, there shouldn't be any danger in that and most pc's have an extra slot for it.

Bill Hook · Oct 26, 2003

cruffler.com and gunboards.com would have nice links sections to milsurp dealers.

Preacherman · Oct 26, 2003

Dakotasin, I've e-mailed the file to you (it's 135 kb - I told you I had a lot of bookmarks!

). I've included instructions on how to import the file to your browser.

Let me know if it works OK.

Robert Farrar · Oct 27, 2003

Hi Dakota,
I save addys to a floppy. After resurrecting your pc, just put 'em back in yer browser's "favorites."
Bob ( Who wishes pc's were like pistols )

gun-fucious · Oct 27, 2003

or you can use an online repostitory like:
http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Recreation/Guns/

or better yet host your own links on a webpage

that way you can be at a buddies house and be right at home

these are pretty old:
http://www.americansforguncontrol.com/links.html

Bulldog · Oct 27, 2003

http://www.jdlawhon.com/gun_links.html

mpthole · Oct 27, 2003

dakotasin

check you PM

Brigrat · Oct 27, 2003

The Solution

My solution to this problem was found accidentaly. I installed Yahoo! Instant Messenger, and saw this cute little addition called the Yahoo! Tool Bar. After it is installed, it has a book mark section which wil easily and automatically import all of your bookmarks from IE or Netscape. This way, they are stored on Yahoo's servers, and you can access them from any computer (as long as you are signed in to yahoo), and if you loose your hard drive again, all you have to do is log in, and boom, there they are, right where they used to be. This has worked very well for me in the past, as I am always tinkering with my computer, and I occasionally break things.

Carlos · Oct 27, 2003

Regularly back up from C:\windows\favorites. Restore to the same directory.

Now if I could just figure out where Outlook Express 6 stored its data file.

DontShootMe · Oct 28, 2003

Carlos

Your outlook files are .pst files.

Do you know how to use search?

Start/Search/For Files or Folders

Type:

*.pst

in the search field

make sure the search is searching your C: drive (primary hard drive)

If nothing shows, go to Tools/Folder Options/View - select the option "show hidden files/folders"

then it will show. Once it does, click on it ONCE, and the path (location) information will show up.

This method will work exactly on win2k, other versions vary slightly.

-DontShootMe

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