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| Thread ID: 122492 | 2011-12-24 08:00:00 | Transfering bookmarks between computers | curly (6655) | Press F1 |
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| 1250524 | 2011-12-24 18:51:00 | No need to get nasty Wainui, I wasn't trying to be. Firstly, I didn't copy paste anything, I did it myself in IE9 and wrote the steps down. When I click the star for favourites there is indeed an arrow next to the add to favourites button, and the steps I wrote work perfectly. I didn't see how to do it your way until I realised you have to turn on the menu bar which is off by default or always has been for me. If I turn it on then follow your instructions they are correct, and you're right the favorites button on the menu doesn't have the drop down menu, but the favorites Icon (star in the top right corner) does and it is what I was referring to. So to summarise, you were right as long as the menu bar is enabled, I was right if you use the Favourites Icon in the top right corner. Have a merry Christmas all. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1250525 | 2011-12-24 20:29:00 | I love how some of these "techs" think that they know the correct answers :) :) I Wasn't being nasty, it wasn't intened like that, and as for that comment, if it was actually read correctly, I said ONE WAY. The comment was made Well ok then, but your instructions are wrong for IE9 When in fact it wasn't wrong at all, it was one way of doing it,as proven. At least techs usually dont go giving answers like "oh thats easy" with no instructions on how to do what ever was asked. What people forget is others come asking for help on something they cant do. While it may be easy for some people, they often forget that the person they are trying to help doesn't have as much knowledge. Off topic: There was a assignment given ages ago when doing a course I was on, regarding giving instructions to someone who doesn't know how to do something -- its not as easy as many think. Out of the 10 in our group, and 3 other groups doing a different subject no one got it right fully ( it was a hell of a laugh though) ;) I would think if someone did the same test here I'd be surprised if anyone got it fully. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1250526 | 2011-12-25 03:03:00 | I Wasn't being nasty, it wasn't intened like that ok I'll accept that, but; come on people think when giving answers !!! I'd call that mildly rude but maybe it isn't, depends how you take it and text doesn't convey that very well. Didn't really bother me. What a load of crap, the instructions are for IE9 could be called rude also, but again no biggie. Oh BTW Dugimodo, before just going to a random site, and copy /paste instructions, the one you gave for IE 9 does'nt work ok this is the one that made me call you nasty, it's a personal accusation aimed straight at me, and it's wrong. The instructions do work, I never even visited MS's help site let alone copy / pasted from it or anywhere else, and even if I had MS is hardly some random site. If I started this by saying your instructions were wrong my apologies, to me they did appear to be. The confusion stems from the simple fact I have never enabled the Menu Bar in IE9 so I don't have a visible file menu, I thought you were referring to the one under the tools icon which doesn't have import/export as an option. The favourites button however (star shaped icon) does have the arrow and import/export option. Turn off the menu bar, imagine you've never used it or know of it's existence, then see which instructions make more sense when you try to follow them. Again Merry Xmas, I wouldn't have posted again but I figured the original poster had his answer and I wanted to clear up the confusion. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1250527 | 2011-12-25 04:38:00 | What you wrote dugimodo is also correct. There is one minor thing that could be confusing though. For IE9 click the favourites button There is no actual button called favorites, there is only a star. Now the average person may not know the star is the favorites button. By default there is no visible text saying "favorites" - however once the star is clicked then it brings up the menu and both ways are identical, just starts off differently thats all. That comes back to the remarks I made about giving clear and precise instructions. Had you have said, something like --" On the right hand side of the page,next to the address bar is a star , click that, click the drop down arrow" etc --->>>>>---. Brings me back also to the assignment I mentioned about giving precise and clear instructions. I'd be reasonably sure hardly anyone would get it right first time unless they have done things like that before ;) Might be an interesting challenge on a separate Thread to see whoever wrote instructions, and compare the differences. ( the fun part is following them and only the instructions) We did and what mess :D Merry xmas. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1250528 | 2011-12-28 09:13:00 | oh,yes,built a bookmarks folder and copy that over. pretty easy,i even copy the folder to my sd card,and then you can use everywhere,car dvd (http://www.12vcity.com)be no exception. | momona (16660) | ||
| 1250529 | 2011-12-28 18:22:00 | I'm on Firefox and I use Foxmarks. They store my bookmarks in the cloud, and its easy to get them on a new machine. But I still back them up using the Firefox Backup and Export options. |
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