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Software => Internet browsers => Topic started by: francesca on July 24, 2011, 12:47:19 PM

Title: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: francesca on July 24, 2011, 12:47:19 PM

 I have always had my FAVS in order of preference and listed as newest at the bottom (except if i drag my preferences to the top)
SOMEHOW   ::) today i have managed to have them all set alphabetically and i want to reverse it - How?

Title: Re: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: patio on July 24, 2011, 02:03:26 PM

Since we don't know what browser this may take awhile...

Title: Re: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: soybean on July 25, 2011, 09:36:55 AM

Quote from: francesca on July 24, 2011, 12:47:19 PM

SOMEHOW   ::) today i have managed to have them all set alphabetically and i want to reverse it - How?

I'm quite sure you'll have to manually rearrange them.  The only way I know of to definitely restore them to the former sequence would be to regularly create a full image of your hard drive and restore the whole hard drive from it, which seems a bit extreme for this objective. 

You might test backup and restore of Favorites by using the backup and restore, or export and import, commands in your browser.  I don't know whether this procedure will retain the order; I suspect it will not but I'd have to test it to be sure.

Ah, I just found this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081027232733AAXGeZM.  It confirms what I first said.

Title: Re: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: Salmon Trout on July 25, 2011, 12:44:13 PM

Quote from: patio on July 24, 2011, 02:03:26 PM

Since we don't know what browser this may take awhile...

I'm with Patio on this.

Title: Re: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: soybean on July 25, 2011, 12:55:16 PM

I don't think it makes a difference which browser, does it?  Do any of them provide a way to undo a sort in alphabetical order?  Not that I know of.

Also, "FAVS" indicates Favorites in IE since other browers, at least the ones I'm familiar with, all use the term Bookmarks.  But, again, this seems irrelevant.

Title: Re: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: Salmon Trout on July 25, 2011, 01:15:53 PM

In IE7, 8 and 9 you can go into "Organise Favorites" and drag each one up or down to where you want it.

Title: Re: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: rthompson80819 on July 25, 2011, 01:20:30 PM

In IE, if you load the favorites tool bar, and click on favorites on the tool bar it gives you the option of History, and will show the most recently viewed sites.  This may be an option.

Title: Re: I do NOT want my FAVS in alphabetic order
Post by: soybean on July 25, 2011, 01:27:02 PM

Quote from: Salmon Trout on July 25, 2011, 01:15:53 PM

In IE7, 8 and 9 you can go into "Organise Favorites" and drag each one up or down to where you want it.

And, in Firefox, "Organize Bookmarks"; in Opera, "Manage Bookmarks".   ;)