Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / November 2004

Could you please post that URL? I'd like to see what it does with my
system (IE 5.2.3 on OS X 10.2.8, PowerMac G4/400 AGP). I know that most
sites I use IE for work fine, but then again, I'm using Safari 1.0.3,
Netscape 7.2, or Camino 0.8.1 for just about all of my browsing needs.

As for the missing favorites, I'm kind of stumped. The favorites are
saved in here: ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/Favorites.html. Unless you
have a utility that cleans up your preferences folder, as a background
task, on some sort of schedule, that file should still be there. The
other possibility is that the user privileges for that path or that file
are not appropriate for the user you've logged in as. The fix there
would be to manually fix the privileges on that path or at least ensure
they are what they're supposed to be for your login.

If you have a data backup routine, you might want to include IE's
preference folder in your backup schedule. If you've got no backup
procedure as organized as that, simply copying IE's preferences folder
to another location within your home directory would suffice.

Steve