A question about syncing

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I have a PC desktop, Windows 7, IE 10 and a Laptop, Windows Vista, IE 10. I recently had to reformat the desktop and lost all my favorites (over 100+ websites):M even though I "saved" them on the Recovery. They were never on my laptop as I only use that when camping.

I also have an iPod Touch and iPad mini that do have the favorites on them...I guess they synced with my desktop before the reformat.

Last week while camping I hooked the iPad to the Laptop via USB to charge it. Apparently it synced and all my favorites were added to the laptop (which never had the favorites before).

I thought that I would try this on the recently formatted desktop and see if the same thing would happen but it did not.

I should also say that I have iTunes and iCloud installed on ALL PC's and iPod/iPad's. I have it set to open iTunes when I plug in device via USB but I only sync manually.

Now the question...Why did it sync my favorites to my laptop but not my desktop which is where I really need them? Does anyone know how to sync what is on the iPad to the PC and not the other way around, if it can be done?

This has me stumped so any help will be greatly appreciated.

dozer · Answer

Why don't you just copy your Favorites file from laptop to your desktop via a usb thumbdrive? Dozer

punomatic · Answer

Try X-marks. It syncs the bookmarks on all your computers automatically. I use it on my Windows laptop, my Ubuntu laptop, DW's Macbook, and her iPad.

anewcreation · Answer

thanks for the replies.  Dozier, that is my plan.  Punomatic, I have bookmarked that website so I can install it on all devices!  Thanks again.

wa8yxm · Answer

There are a couple of applications that work with Firfox, one works with MSIE as well (I do not know about the other)

X-marks saves your favorites and syncs them (Via an external server) with all yor assorted copies of Firefox

Last Pass saves both favorites and passwords. but does it differently (They are saved in your "Last pass vault" not in your bookmarks/favorites file).

So any web site I have LOGGED INTO (Last pass only works if there is a password). I can log into from this laptop. The desktop.. The androids, Someone else's computer, A library computer.. ANY web connected computer.

sch911 · Answer

Use Google Chrome!  Your bookmarks are always sync'd across all of your devices.

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