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Moving Google bookmarks to my new account - do I really have to do it one by one?

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RustyBear · 28/06/2008 12:42

When I started with googlemail it was because Hotmail was rejecting the MN talk emails, so I used a name that related to my talk name.

Now I've created a new google email address with my RL name, but when I'm logged in with the new address I can't see all the bookmarks I've created.

I can't associate another Google mail address with my original account & though I can export my Google bookmarks from one account, I can't re-import them - there's only an option to import IE favourites.

I've tried Google's FAQ & various other places, but all I've found is a suggestion that I have to recreate them one by one.

Does anyone know different?

TIA

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RustyBear · 28/06/2008 17:01

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SlartyBartFast · 28/06/2008 17:12

just got a different home page and was moving my bookmarks one by one! had to many anyway tbh

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nannynick · 28/06/2008 17:26

Could try exporting bookmarks (so you have file bookmarks.html)

Then change user account, so that Google Toolbar is registered with the new user account details.

Then try using this - scroll to bottom for Step 1.
Try clicking Browser, then pasting in the contents of bookmarks.html

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RustyBear · 28/06/2008 18:38

Thanks NannyNick - that worked (at least for most of them, I had to do a few individually) though I had to switch to Firefox to make it work.(I haven't been using Firefox because it doesn't like my igoogle page)
I did have to switch to viewing the source for the bookmarks list before I C&P it into the link.

Thanks very much!

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nannynick · 28/06/2008 22:33

Good to hear that it worked for some of the bookmarks.
Google really should come up with a better Import/Export system - you would have thought that by being able to Export the bookmarks, the same software would import it again.

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