Wednesday 4 May 2016

Importing Bookmarks to Chrome from another Chrome installation

If you need to import your bookmarks to a new installation of Chrome, unless you log into your Chrome account, I found the task to be not so easy to find. You may need this when you switch to a new computer.

Version 50.0... on Windows 7 has 2 options when you try to import Bookmarks from the Menu Bookmarks > Import Bookmarks and configuration...:

  1. Microsoft Internet Explorer
  2. HTML Bookmarks file
The first option is quite useless, unless what you want to import are the Bookmarks and Settings from the Internet Explorer installed for the same user account as you logged in. I needed to import them from a disk from another computer, so this option is a no go.

The second option appears to be more general, but useless for my case: Chrome to Chrome.

So, the bookmarks file for Chrome on Windows 7 is installed in the file C:/Users/Your-Username/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Bookmarks. You only need to

  1. Close Chrome.
  2. Replace your current Bookmarks file with the old one
  3. Start Chrome
The current Bookmarks are replaced with the old ones.

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