IE11 favorites issue

I deleted the favorites folder in Users/me,,,to created a new one ,it did create the new favorites folder but it will now not let me save any favorites ,or i replaced the new folder with the old backed up one ,and it will not show the favorites even though they are in the folder ,ty

I just fixed it with something I tried twice already ,but for some reason today it worked ,,, I had the favorites folder backed up to thumb drive ,,when I plugged in the thumb drive and open IE it found the favorites on the drive and worked , so I copied the favorites folder to the desktop it found it there as well ,so I then put it back into the user folder and its now working again,

opps ,not working again, only shows favorites when I plug in the thumb drive with the favorites folder on it ,weird

caperjack said:

opps ,not working again, only shows favorites when I plug in the thumb drive with the favorites folder on it ,weird

Try deleting the fav folder you created, launch IE, save a web page to favorites
did IE recreate teh favorites folder?

No, let it percolate and check in a while to see if Windows recreates it in it's crawl.

Slartybart said:

Try deleting the fav folder you created, launch IE, save a web page to favorites
did IE recreate teh favorites folder?

No, let it percolate and check in a while to see if Windows recreates it in it's crawl.

ie will not not let me add a favorite after I delete the folder

Cliff S , I will check see if I have onedrive set to sinc ,I may have it turned off ,
thank for comments

How about this ... turn IE off in Pgms & Feats Turn Windows features on or off, restart, then turn IE back on.

I started writing that I wouldn't be much help because I turned off IE, then it occurred to me that might help you.

Slartybart said:

How about this ... turn IE off in Pgms & Feats Turn Windows features on or off, restart, then turn IE back on.

I started writing that I wouldn't be much help because I turned off IE, then it occurred to me that might help you.

i will try that now ,thanks

caperjack said:

i will try that now ,thanks

I'll keep posting suggestions as I think of them:

It probably isn't this easy, but try it - who knows ...

Create a new Favorites folder, then use your text editor to build the desktop.ini for the Favorites folder using the lines in the code box below. If nothing else, it will be a folder with a star

Fairly standard stuff - the folder name and icon from shell32.dll

Here's the contents of desktop.ini file in the Favorites folder on my other machine.

Code:

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21796
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-115
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-173

or ... How about creating a new user profile and comparing the registry entries for favorites. I looked at the other machines registry and there really aren't too many once you strike the Edge browser keys. I thought about posting the keys from my side, but it would be more expedient for you to do it side by side after exporting the HKCU key while logged in to each user.

I will try that tomorrow ,getting late here ,early to bed early to rise ,, thanks .

Slartybart said:

I'll keep posting suggestions as I think of them:

It probably isn't this easy, but try it - who knows ...

Create a new Favorites folder, then use your text editor to build the desktop.ini for the Favorites folder using the lines in the code box below. If nothing else, it will be a folder with a star

Fairly standard stuff - the folder name and icon from shell32.dll

Here's the contents of desktop.ini file in the Favorites folder on my other machine.

Code:

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21796
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-115
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-173

or ... How about creating a new user profile and comparing the registry entries for favorites. I looked at the other machines registry and there really aren't too many once you strike the Edge browser keys. I thought about posting the keys from my side, but it would be more expedient for you to do it side by side after exporting the HKCU key while logged in to each user.