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Export tool for Edge Collections before deprecation
Microsoft is deprecating the 'Collections' feature in Edge, but there is currently no export option available for personal Microsoft accounts. This creates a serious problem for users who rely heavily on Collections for research, organization, and long‑term workflows.
In my case, I have 166 main Collections, each containing dozens of items. Migrating this manually is simply impossible/undoable. ‼️
Please Microsoft: provide an official export tool (HTML, JSON, or migration to Favorites/Bing Saves) before removing the feature. Without this, users risk losing years of structured work and saved content.
This is essential for anyone who has used Collections as a core part of their workflow.
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- Kelly_Y
Microsoft
pieterjbogaersgmailcom - With a MSA account, you can move all saved pages from Collections to Favorites. For more information, see Organize your ideas with Collections in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Support. Thanks!
I expect this is a reference to the following information:
However - and the reason for my reply below - is that in my Edge version 147 only the message in screenshot below is shown. And in none of the menu's for collections in in bing.com/saves I can find an option to move saved pages from Collections to Favorites. What can be the reason that the mentioned box 'Move to Favorites' is not shown?
The absence of an export and/or migration to favorites, is especially strange because it is available for work/school accounts. Why then not make this available for personal accounts as well.
The forced use of personal account users of bing.com/saves is not of much help!
Without the ability to maintain the collections this reference has not much added value.
You will have to start using favorites for new webpages of your interest!
I would guess not many people are interested in maintaining and opening favorite webpages via two registrations. So in that sense you are forced to use favorites, but not allowed to migrate the content of collections to favorites.
Hope this requests gets more attentions and likes, so Microsoft will allow collections to be migrated to favorites!
