Export Google Chrome Bookmarks: Synchronize your bookmarks

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 file named 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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