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Export Google Chrome bookmarks data file: Synchronize your bookmarks

http://www.chromefans.org Nov 13, 2008 05:11 PST

Posted by Andrew

The current version of Google Chrome supports for importing bookmakrs from Internet Explorer, FireFox and other browsers. You can just click menu Tools | Import Bookmarks and settings to complete the importing task. Unfortunately, if you want to move the Chrome bookmarks to a new computer, you will notice that Google Chrome does not yet have a way to export bookmarks. :-(

There is a FAQ in Google Chrome help:

Bookmarks: Export bookmarks

This feature is not available at the moment. If you imported your bookmarks from another browser, your data should still be available in the original browser.

If you search "Export Google Chrome bookmarks" in Google, you will find some programs to help you synchronize the bookmarks. However, there is a easy way to do that, you needn't install any programs!

Once you have installed Google Chrome on your computer, please open following folder with Windows Explorer:

  • Windows XP:
    • C:/Documents and Settings/{User Name}/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/
  • Windows Vista:
    • C:/Users/{User Name}/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/

In that folder, you will find a data file named Bookmarks:

Export Google Chrome Bookmarks, Synchronize your bookmarks

You can directly backup this file. To Synchronize your bookmarks to a new comptuer, just copy the file to the same folder on your new computer, and then restart Google Chrome, all of your bookmarks will now be there!

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#1  Walt Kerr posted on Nov 17, 2008 17:53 PST
Better yet, get the Developer version of Chrome and you'll get the new bookmark manager with it. It isn't live synchronized bookmarks yet, but it's an improvement as you can import and export your bookmarks within Chrome. You can find the Developer version at this link:
http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-1.0.exe

#2  Saravana Kumar Paulraj posted on Mar 01, 2009 19:14 PST
Yes. It supports export / import now... ;)

#3  DELATOUR posted on Apr 24, 2009 01:49 PDT
Why can't we use Google Bookmarks with Google Chrome ?
I'm steel obliged to open an other brother to easely bookmark pages on my google bookmarks.

#4  Steve posted on May 27, 2009 15:51 PDT
Why can't google figure out how to host my bookmarks and tabs on one of their servers and then serve them up to each of my Chrome installations? I'm running Chrome [happily, I should add] on four machines and the only aggrevation is non-sync'd bookmarks and tabs from machine to machine.

#5  Teramis posted on Jun 30, 2009 20:11 PDT
I have that same problem too, needing to synch bookmarks across multiple machines. Until Google effectively solves this problem (if they ever address it at all), I'm going to export my Google Chrome bookmarks, import them into Firefox on my respective machines, then run Foxmarks, which synchs bookmarks btwn Firefox browser installations. Then, final step, import the (synched) bookmarks file from Firefox into Chrome.
Chrome -->Firefox/foxmarks -->Chrome
A little cumbersome, and a maintenance step I don't want to do more than once a month, but it will (finally!) get the job done. I'm tired of living in scattered data chaos. Can't find anything I've bookmarked and don't remember what's on what machine. Grrr.

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