xakep Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 In my Favorites, most of the bookmarked sites have their own icons, that is, until recenlty. Something happened, and the icons turned into the usual baby-blue IE icons. I understand this is no big deal, :D no loss of functionality, but it would be educational to know what happened and how to get them back ( visiting the sites does not reclaim the icons). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Never noticed this before but, on checking in IE (which I don't use very much) on my main machine, all the icons are the blue colour that you mention. The folder contents are likewise, blue.In Firefox, of about 50 - 60 icons, three are fancy. The others are just plain blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.aspFavorg should do the trick :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 All mine are a small blue E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xakep Posted February 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558477,00.aspFavorg should do the trick :)Precise hit with the above URL. It says:"Favicons are usually lost when you delete your Temporary Internet Files, but FavOrg preserves them. "Sure enough, my browser is set to empty the Temp IE cache upon being closed, and recently I closed the bowser after keeping it up for probably months.Thanks a lot. That resolves it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Pleasure. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Cool! (But Firefox does it automatically, without a Ziff-Davis utility...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 It has occurred to me that a lot of us at WF, now have small E icons because we regularly use Crap Cleaner. However I'm not particularly bothered what the icons look like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 It does help a bit to locate links if you have a large bookmarks collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 It does help a bit to locate links if you have a large bookmarks collection.Remember that you can place your bookmarks/favorites in their own folders within the file. This helps enormously in keeping things tidy and in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xakep Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 I have done just that. I have 148 KB, 5.12 MB on disk (why the difference?) of 1,323 favorites in 38 folders, 10 forum links outside, and 1 desktop.ini(what do I need this for?).For the forum links I rely on the icons. To find other URLs I use partial name search. Otherwise it would take minutes to find something.Is there a Favorites sharing thread/storage here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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