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A great example of how helpful lists can be...
"Carole Ashkinaze." <Ashkinaze@aol.com>
posted a message to the Computer Assisted Research and Reporting list
asking for help as she had just had a crash (what Win user has not?.. name
one!) and lost her bookmarks... many subscribers (including myself) offered
help and in the best traditions of the net... not only did she post this thank
you to the list for the help she got... but also summarized the information she
received and included that information in this... her thank you to the list....
and behold... useful information about what to do to look after your one of
your important net tools is generated...
Thanks "Carole Ashkinaze." <Ashkinaze@aol.com>
George

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Date sent:              Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:23:01 EDT
Send reply to:          Ashkinaze@aol.com
From:                   "Carole Ashkinaze." <Ashkinaze@aol.com>
Subject:                lost links summary
Via:                    CARR-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU

Dear listers,
I am amazed at the generosity of all who wrote to help when my disk
crashed. I received far more than I needed-- links to everything from
gardening to UFO's to aborigines, and some listers referred me to sites
developed by other listers.   For example, several of you mentioned Bill
Dedman's http://www.powerreporting.com./ 8, with its great "bookmarks for
journalists."The links to search engines and sites carrying lists of links
were the most helpful to me after a hard drive crash, since they offered
"one-stop shopping." I'm sure you'll understand if I don't try to post all
the individual you suggested. Thanks to Lisa Sparrow, first to respond,
with an awesomely eclectic list of her own (
http://members.aol.com/sparrow1/#top). Dave J advised going to
http://mav.net/guidelines/webring and following the links for the
Journalism and Research Related Webring, "for more sites than you ever had
to begin with." (true). Other great suggestions came from  Gary Price
(http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/newscenter.htm),
(http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm), David Helwig
(http://www.journalismnet.com/ ; general reference,
http://www.refdesk.com/); and from Gary Curtis,
http://www.clark.net/pub/garyc/. Ayr recommended Researchers Toolkit
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/6100/ (for business-oriented
research), and "a big grabbbag of links" at
http://www.cais.com/makulow/vlj.html). Georges Lessard also has good
collections of sites at tripod but links (see below) take you to ebay, and
clicking there takes you through additional detours like the  "sports
collectors's club;" finally found Georges' site behind them but, even
then, ebay kept popping up and flashing ads, which I found mildly
annoying. (Look at
ttp://members.tripod.com/~media002/bokmrk-2.html,(general),
http://members.tripod.com/~media002/bkmrk-7.html , (aboriginal / first
nation's links). Curt Davis's cool collection of links also included
http://www.ryerson.ca/~dtudor/carcarr.htm (for CARR),
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm (for special searches)
http://www.academicinfo.net/ (for academic info)
http://cn.net.au/index2.html (Spire Project for internet info. research),
and his own bookmark file, "quite a large file and difficult to view
online" but available at: http://www.syspac.com/~cdavis/bookmark.zip.

Marty Bengesrit was smart enough to save his favorites to WordPerfect
which he had backed on zip the day before the crash. Among them:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/source/free.htm (newspapers, full text and free)
and the following: 1. Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract 2. U.S. Bureau of the Census
http://www.census.gov 3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov 4. Fedstats http://www.fedstats.gov 7. American
Demographic http://www.demographics.com; 8. The CIA's World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html 9. Major Business Journals:
Forbes: http://www.forbes.com Fortune: http://www.fortune.com or
http://www.pathfinder.com Business Week: http://www.businessweek.com 10.
Newspapers http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/SSDAN/ http://opr.princeton.edu/
He also offered the url's to the following (also found on web sites
developed for writers/journalists):  Reference Material:
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/~martindale/Ref.html (massive collection)
Virtual Reference Desk:  http://www.refdesk.com/
 Dictionaries, Thesauri, Foreign Language:
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Websters Dictionary, WWW.m-w.com
The ARTFL French-English Dictionary
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html,
Literary Dictionary
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2297/literary.html The Quotations Page
 http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/ The Web of On-line Dictionaries: 800
dictionaries,160 different languages, thesauri,  as acronym dictionaries,
synonym dictionaries, rhyming dictionaries, etc..
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

As to backing up:
Georges Lessard recommends Columbine Bookmark Merge Version 3.3, a free
utility for merging, editing, sorting, printing, converting, and
publishing NetScape bookmark files, Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)
favorites files, NCSA Mosaic hotlists files, or Opera Hot List files. You
can download it right here. Important: Columbine Bookmark Merge is free,
but you are asked to contribute to the Frank J. Cramblitt Memorial Fund
for the furtherance of elementary school education.

Ayr advises bookmarking under your browser's "favorites;" then you can
find them under c:\windows\favourites\ (assuming you use windows installed
to c:\ default) for easy copying to another physical disk or floppy. He
keeps a folder on his desktop with all these type of links in it; it's
easier to drag or copy elsewhere.

Matt Reavey and others said it's easy in Netscape Communication/Navigator;
just make a backup copy of the "bookmark.htm" file that's found in your
"Communicator" directory.

In Internet Explorer, Dave J said, go to your C: drive, open the Windows
folder, then find the folder named "Favorites."  Copy that folder to
floppy for a backup. They aren't saved in one bookmark.htm file but
instead are each separate files in the same folder, Bill Dedman said.  In
Win95, the Favorites folder is usually C:\Windows\Favorites.  On WinNT,
your mileage may vary.

Glynn Wilson (bless his heart) said, buy a Mac.

Jack McGrath suggests investing $30 or so  in a URL-managemnt program
called PowerMarks by a firm called Kaylon. It saves URLs by single
keystroke entry, imports them from Netscape Bookmark or IE Favorites
files, lets you export them at a key stoke to save them on floppy, or
another file (and in html ot txt format, at that), and lets you call up
and launch any URL by name or keyword.  Also checks the link connections
you have stored at intervals you designate, and flags the no-go's with a
red marker.

But I haven't tried any of these with AOL, which is what I use, and which
is rarely compatible with others.  Has anyone else tried backing up AOL
"Favorites" in this fashion?

Again, thanks to everyone who responded.

Carole

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