20th November 2000
Coming from the "One Too Many" Department, Lockergnomie Runar Mar Bragason knows he needs only one record per URL. When was the last time you scanned your collection of Favorites for duplicates. Heh... daunting task, eh? Tell me about it. If they number in the hundreds, you're far from alone. Fire up your favorite ZIP file manager (WINZIP or POWERARCHIVER recommended). Now, go ahead and archive your 'Favorites' collection (while retaining folder and subfolder information). Sort the newly-created ZIP file's contents by name -- the shortcut redundancies should be apparent. Or, as this Gnomie suggests, use the 'Find' feature for a more comprehensive cleaning. When you're finished, you can either extract the 'purified' set or keep the Favorites archived to save disk space. If nothing, then at least you'll have created a backup copy of those sites.