Can you burn "Favorites" onto a CD?

I have Win98 First Edition and use Internet Explorer. My list of Favorites for web sites is pretty large. It includes folders as well as individual sites. Can these be burned onto a CD or otherwise backed up?

 

yes.



well i think so anyways

 

Yes you can back them up and it's very simple. Only thing I might suggest is to use a disk as it's very small and would be a waste of CD unless you put other stuff on it. It would take somewhere upwards of 500 favorites to fill up a standard floppy disk.

Edit: I just checked the file sizes and you can fit well over 5000 favorites on a single floppy disk. If you have more then that i'd suggest doing a little cleaning.

Simple copy the folder c:\windows\favorites to the disk\cd. If you try using these on the nt line of windows the favorites folder is found in c:\documents and settings\username\favorites or in C:\documents and settings\allusers\favorites.

 

Yeah, you CAN put 'em on a floppy, but ittakes a looong time to transfer them back and forth (been there, done that). My average cost for CD W disks is 20 cents US. So I'd find some other goo to back up, perhaps, and go for it, even if it amounts to only a few megs. One may also burn a multi-session (haven't tried it, yet; supposed to be tricky). I'm burning with Nero.

 

You think a floppy is too slow to store favorites? Thats sort of reaching. I mean sure if you actually filled up a disk with the favorites you'd take longer to access them off a floppy then off a cd rom drive, but lets face it you arn't going to fill up the floppy. A whole floppy takes about 1 min to copy to a computer. Now with about 1000 sites in there that totals less then 10% of the floppy space. Now take 10% of 1 minute and you get less then 6 seconds to copy 1000 favorites from a floppy disk to an HD. Now lets do the math on a CDROM. Your average CDROM takes about 5-10 seconds just to recognize the CD and show it's contents. Disks work the second you pop them in. So basicly you can pretty much have copied all of your favorites onto the HD in the time it takes to put the CD in the drive. Please explain to me how on earth a CD is faster for this? I mean sure a CD is faster for just about anything else you can think of but not for this, i'm sort of under the impresion you are just getting adicted to using CD's.

Not like this really matters as both are pretty cheap but I always liked the nice easy rewrite feature that you have with disks. CD's are just more annoying to rewrite to then disks are.

 

HI, I only got a CDRW a few months ago and just use Nero's wizard to burn multi session data disc and have no trouble. I found it quite easy. Peace Mal

 

This is a great site! Everyone is so helpful. I'm afraid answers beget questions with me: I put my Favorites folder onto a floppy. It took 4 mins, 10 secs. No problem. I guess I also could have done it with multi-session onto a CD.

When I clicked Properties for the folder on the floppy, it said:

Type: Shell Favorite Folder
Location: A
Size: 46.1 KB (47,212 bytes), 136,704 bytes used
Contains 255 files, 25 folders.

It's the size info that I don't understand. It says exactly what I wrote. What does 47,212 bytes refer to, and what does 136,704 bytes used refer to? What is the size of my folder in bytes, or KB or MB? I know that a floppy holds 1.44 MB.

Thanks again!

 

Oh yeah disks have cluster sizes. How'd I manage to forget that? That throws the calculations way off.

Anyways your size info is simple 47,212 bytes is how big your files are in bytes if you want to get KB simply divide that by 1024 and you'll get 46.1 KB. The other number which is 136,704 is simply how much space is actually being taken up on the disk. Now the reason this is much bigger then the other number is due to cluster sizes. Now i'm not sure what a cluster size on a disk is but it's either 4KB or 8KB. What this means is any file takes up 4 or 8KB at a time. So if the file is really 1KB it still takes up the whole 4KB or 8KB. The same applies to files that are 9KB, that would take up the full 12KB or 16KB depending on cluster size. So the first numebr is the size of the files and the second number is how much space it actually takes to store the files. One way to regain that space is to zip them or simply put all the files into an archive of some sort. Even if you don't compress them you'd get all of that wasted space back. Hope that helps clear thigns up for you.

BTW, cluster sizes exsist on normal HD's too. The average cluster size is 8KB but it's dependant on how big your drive is and what file system it uses.