| Sparkey |
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| Mon Apr 14 2008 09:05 PM |
Favicons Not In Favorites/Bookmark List
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Can anyone help.
I find it much easier to see my bookmarks/favorites when they have a favicon next to them. But a number of them do not appear even they they have one appearing in the address bar for the website. Also sometimes they appear in my favorites and then a few days later they have gone.
Can anyone help???????
Sparkey
| Fusion |
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| Mon Apr 14 2008 09:21 PM |
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Re: Favicons Not In Favorites/Bookmark List
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When you empty your Temporary Internet File Folder, you lose all the Favicons associated with that site.
Assuming your using Internet Explorer:
Create a new folder on your Desktop or a location of your choice and call it Favicons.
Now go to your Temporary Internet File Folder where any Favicons in there will look something like this . . . >> Click here << . . .
Right click the Favicon > Copy > Then paste into the new folder on Desktop called Favicons.
Do this for each and every Favicon you want to preserve, but remember not all sites use Favicons to promote their site and if you have recently emptied your folder, they won't reappear till next time you visit their site.
. . . right, what you need to do now is go into your Favorites folder, right click an icon > Properties > Change Icon > Navigate to your created Favicon folder on your desktop > Highlight required icon > Open > OK/Apply/OK.
This now associates the icon with the Favicon in your Favicon folder. ie when you delete your Temp Int Files from the Folder, the icon(s) remain.
You will have to do this for each Favicon you want to save.
Alternatively, and in all honesty, an easier way is to use >> Favorg << .
The FavOrg program uses a similar automatic method of copying the Favicons it finds and places them in its own folder within the Program files and uses this cache.
Realistically, the FavOrg way is easier, but the manual way I have decribed above doesn't intruduce a third party software program to do it.
| Sparkey |
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| Tue Apr 15 2008 08:22 AM |
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Re: Favicons Not In Favorites/Bookmark List
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Thanks for that I will give it a go.
Sparkey
| thebiggfella |
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| Wed Apr 16 2008 09:22 PM |
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Re: Favicons Not In Favorites/Bookmark List
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Daft question coming up .... where is the Temporary Internet Files Folder? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
| Fusion |
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| Wed Apr 16 2008 09:29 PM |
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Re: Favicons Not In Favorites/Bookmark List
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You can either look in Control Panel > Internet Options > General > Browsing history > Settings > View files
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Open Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet Options > etc etc
| thebiggfella |
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| Wed Apr 16 2008 09:52 PM |
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Re: Favicons Not In Favorites/Bookmark List
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Thanks for that. I can view the files when I use your method with no problem. The path is as follows:
C:\Documents and Settings\Glynn\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
However when I try to navigate to the Temporary Internet Files Folder just by following the above path, it does not show. All there is in the Local Settings folder is a 'Temp' folder (which has nowhere near the amount of files in it that the TIF folder has), 'Application Data' folder, 'Apps' folder and a TempIadHide3.dll file. No Temporary Internet Files folder.
I'm just curious to know why that is.