OT - Updating/Modifying Favorites

Frenchy wrote on 10/22/2003, 2:04 PM

Hi all -

Over the years of visiting these forums, I've bookmarked several dozen which I refer to occassionally, or give a link to others. Of course, the URL of most of these starts with www.sonicfoundry.com. Now that the correct URL begins with mediasoftware.sonypictures.com. I assumed that a redirect to the correct URL would be automatic/transparant. I'm wrong, at least here at work, where the forums page to the old SF site is firewalled as "chat", hence not accessable, and I get an error.

My question: Is there a technique wherein I can batch modify/update the URL's in My Favorites to the correct one - You know like "find and replace" in Word or WordPerfect. i.e. - substitute "mediasoftware.sonypictures.com" for "www.sonicfoundry.com" in all instances?

Any help? Thanks in advance

Frenchy

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Frenchy wrote on 10/23/2003, 11:32 AM

bump-

I realize this isn't a Vegas issue, but, no guru here knows a way to do this?...

;)

Jsnkc wrote on 10/23/2003, 12:34 PM

There is no way to "Batch" do it. The easiest way to do it is to go to the new page and select add to favorites and give it the same name as the old one, then it will ask if you want to replace it and then select yes.

RichMacDonald wrote on 10/23/2003, 1:08 PM

OS and perhaps Browser specific, but I just looked under "Documents and Settings/MyUserName/Favorities". This is where your favorites are stored. Each favorite is a file. Open the file with a text editor and you will see something like:

[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.kaxe.org/
[DOC#5#7]
BASEURL=http://www.kaxe.org/main.html
ORIGURL=main.html
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.kaxe.org/
Modified=809AB5CF6C79C30147

Now I don't know what all this stands for and/or why there is so much duplicate info, but I presume I could use another tool to do a search and replace on the relevant portion on the URL, save the file, and the browser will now link to the new URL

So all you need is a tool that does search and replace of the contents of all the files within a particular directory.

johnmeyer wrote on 10/23/2003, 1:52 PM

The favorites files for Internet Explorer, as already noted, are simple text files. Therefore, you can use a simple shareware program designed to do search and replace across a range of files. Using one of these programs you would simply specify a search string like:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/

and replace it with:

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums

Here is a link to one such program. I haven't used it, so I can't vouch for how it works, but it is typical of what is available. There are dozens of such programs.

Search and Replace Text Files

Frenchy wrote on 10/23/2003, 5:23 PM

Rich - Thanks - I knew *what* I had to do, just not the *how*..

John - that little piece of shareware did the trick. Thanks for the link. Usually, I have no problem finding software to do particular tasks, but I was having a brain cramp the last couple of days, and my searches were coming up with a bunch of irrelavent crap. Thanks again

Frenchy

johnmeyer wrote on 10/23/2003, 5:29 PM

Always nice to hear back that something worked (or didn't). Thanks.