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jhosler2
Copper Contributor
Oct 06, 2019

Where are favorites stored?

Anyone know where they are stored? I'd like to *REPLACE* my favorites as sync has horribly messed them up. I've backed up the favorites and don't want to 'import'  them I want to replace them with my...
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gocloud
Brass Contributor
Jan 13, 2020

You can access it with "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Edge SxS\User Data", it will automatic resolve the path of application data folder without manual replace the username and driver letter.

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Aria_Consulting
Brass Contributor
Jan 13, 2020

gocloudNo such directory on my machine.  The "user data" portion that is.  I have all the folders in the appdata path (Edge, Edge Beta, Edge Dev, Edge SXS, and EdgeUpdate), but all are empty.  However, I rather clearly have bookmarks (see attached screenshot)

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    gocloud
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 13, 2020

    Aria_Consulting We are talking about Chromium based Edge, they are totally different code base, and not possible to migrate data without a tool.

     

    If you really interested about it, it was stored here: %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default

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      Aria_Consulting
      Brass Contributor
      Jan 13, 2020

      gocloudNope, already looked there.  Also empty.

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        gocloud
        Brass Contributor
        Jan 13, 2020

        Aria_Consulting For old Edge, It not stored in the favorites folder, you can found a .edb file in "DataStore" folder called "spartan.edb". Again, you can't migrate this into new, Chromium based Edge without the built-in import function, you might able to view it with tools in the web, but hard than import it