Importing Favorites from windows to Mozilla/Firefox

[Mitch Wiedemann]

Copy all of the "Favorites" .url files into a ~/favorites directory, 
associate .url files with Mozilla/Firefox, and let the user sort them 
out?  That's been my low-tech solution -- which has been fairly well 
received considering my clients pay by the hour. :)

Doesn't really answer your question, but I guess it depends on how 
"important" it is that they get imported, rather than just being 
accessible to the user.

Best of luck.

Youssef Makki wrote:

>I've tried this methods so far:
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> find *.url -exec cat '{}' \; | grep 'URL=' | grep -v '[[:alpha:]]URL='
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>>>~/favorites.txt
>>>      
>>>
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>It filled up that text file with the long list of "URL=http://...." it
>grepped from the windows .url files. I had planned to convert that to an
>html file and import it in Firefox now, but there's a few problems.
>Find chokes when it encounters files with characters like '---' or '['
>or whatever weird names those links have. Another thing is I can't do
>this recursively, gotta move all links from their organized folders to
>the root folder I'm working in.
>
>Being something I have to do on several machines with _alot_ of
>favorites, I can't resort to renaming/moving files around. Is there a
>better way to do this?
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