windows explorer favorites don't equal ie6 favorites

[johnfred]

has anyone an explanation for this? I'm using IE6 with win2k. I've found that my favorites folder under "documents and settings" in windows explorer does not exactly match the favorites I see when I click favorites in ie6. It's close but there are actually more subfolders that I have created and can access in ie6 than I can see on the file manager program. Does this make sense? I discovered this when I imported my favorites into Opera and found several subfolders missing.

 

[kippy13]

You may need to set Windows Explorer to "View All
Files" since favorites is often set with a system attribute. (In Explorer,
View | Folder Options | View | under Files and Folders | Hidden files
section- check "show all files" | click 'Apply').

"Sometimes I do not know but I try hard"- R.F. Haughty 1923

 

[bcastner]

To add to kipp13's suggestion above, look in the All Users, and the Default User, profiles to see the entries that you may be missing. If you are OWNER/CREATOR/Administrator of the local machine, look in the Administrator profile as well.

 

[kippy13]

Yes, bcastners solution looks the most likely as the favourites are user specific.

"Sometimes I do not know but I try hard"- R.F. Haughty 1923

 

[johnfred]

thanks for your replies, guys.
bcastner, none of the favorites in the other accts settings ammount to anything. "all users" favorites are blank, admin's are just a few generic links I think came with the install.
kippy13, I finally found the "folder options" under the tools menu rather than view. I checked show hidden files and folders, no change.

Is this weird or what?

 

[bcastner]

There are ways to "hide" subfolders in Favorites.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_favorites.htm