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Thread: I can't add URL's to favorites folder

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    DavePie Guest

    I can't add URL's to favorites folder

    If I go to www.yahoo.com, then click on Favorites, then ADD to favorites then
    click add. I get box with Name: Yahoo, Created in: Favorites. Then I get
    Error: Unable to create 'Yahoo!": Unspecified Error. I can delete, modify or
    rename any item in the favorites list though. Just can't add a new one? Any
    ideas?
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    DavePieNaples

  2. #2
    Extracampine Guest

    Re: I can't add URL's to favorites folder

    I have exactly the same problem !With me, this happens only when I try and
    save a favourite to a sub-folder. If I save it to the root favourites
    folder, then that seems to work, and I can move it afterwards.

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    BobF Guest

    Re: I can't add URL's to favorites folder


    Ditto!


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    BobF

  4. #4
    brink Guest

    Re: I can't add URL's to favorites folder

    Hi BobF,

    Welcome to Vista Forums. :party:

    You might check to see if Internet Explorer 7 has all of it's defaults
    set to it. This will show you how.

    http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/83...ociations.html

    Shawn

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    davehc Guest

    Re: I can't add URL's to favorites folder


    Maybe an easier way is to right click the page and "Add to favourites"?
    Always works for me.


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    davehc

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    BobF Guest

    Re: I can't add URL's to favorites folder


    Elsewhere on this forum are similar references to "unspecified error"
    when "add to favorites" is chosen. In my case I used the "redirected
    folder" feature to move my username to another disk, aparently somehow
    messing up folder rights/permissions whatever such that IE couldn't
    write to the "Favorites" folder. In spite of following the directions
    here and at MSDN I still couldn't add to favorites. I gave up trying,
    re-formatted the disk, re-installed Vista64, and IMMEDIATELY before
    doing anything moved my user folder to the other disk and now I am able
    to "add to favorites". I certainly got confused when I went from Start
    -> explore -> navigate to C:\Users\username -> folder -> properties and
    didn't see a location tab. Aparently the location tab is visible only
    when the explorer is started from Start -> username ->folder ->
    properties. I was expecting "Redirected Folders" to have been
    implemented at the file-system layer for all folders/files and thus
    visible from any copy of explorer. How silly of me.


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    BobF

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    Ramesh, MS-MVP Guest

    Re: I can't add URL's to favorites folder

    "Unspecified error" when adding a link to Favorites in Windows Vista:
    http://www.winhelponline.com/blogs/4...ows-Vista.html

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