Hi,

I have a Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 6.1 . In Pocket IE I have created
a folder of favorites. Every once in a while, all of my favorites in this
folder will disappear and I have to recreate them. The folder itself is still
there, as are any favorites that were not in the folder. This has happened
enough times to me that it is getting quite annoying. Has anybody else seen
this behavior, or have any insight into the problem?

Thanks,
I. Kinal

Hello,

I have seen this problem before (experienced it as well).

Are you synchronizing your favorites with your PC vai ActiveSync/WMDC?

If you are synching, AS/WMDC does get confused at times on synchronizing
Favorites. When this happens, go into AS/WMDC and disable synchronization
of Mobile Favorites. Disconnect your device, reconnect and when it is
synch'ed again, recheck Mobile Favorites. It should push them down to your
device and you should be good-to-go.

Regards,

--
Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices
http://www.clintonfitch.com
http://www.hpcfactor.com


"I. Kinal" <ikinal@myalias.postalias> wrote in message
news:3AC47474-D193-4C54-AFD2-F258A6B29C97@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 6.1 . In Pocket IE I have
> created
> a folder of favorites. Every once in a while, all of my favorites in this
> folder will disappear and I have to recreate them. The folder itself is
> still
> there, as are any favorites that were not in the folder. This has happened
> enough times to me that it is getting quite annoying. Has anybody else
> seen
> this behavior, or have any insight into the problem?
>
> Thanks,
> I. Kinal

Hi,

Thanks for the response!

Yes, I am synchronizing my favorites with my PC via WMDC. The next time that
this problem happens, I will try what you suggest. I will post back here at
that time.

Thanks again!

I. Kinal

"Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have seen this problem before (experienced it as well).
>
> Are you synchronizing your favorites with your PC vai ActiveSync/WMDC?
>
> If you are synching, AS/WMDC does get confused at times on synchronizing
> Favorites. When this happens, go into AS/WMDC and disable synchronization
> of Mobile Favorites. Disconnect your device, reconnect and when it is
> synch'ed again, recheck Mobile Favorites. It should push them down to your
> device and you should be good-to-go.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices
> http://www.clintonfitch.com
> http://www.hpcfactor.com
>
>
> "I. Kinal" <ikinal@myalias.postalias> wrote in message
> news:3AC47474-D193-4C54-AFD2-F258A6B29C97@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 6.1 . In Pocket IE I have
> > created
> > a folder of favorites. Every once in a while, all of my favorites in this
> > folder will disappear and I have to recreate them. The folder itself is
> > still
> > there, as are any favorites that were not in the folder. This has happened
> > enough times to me that it is getting quite annoying. Has anybody else
> > seen
> > this behavior, or have any insight into the problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > I. Kinal
>

No problem - hope it makes the issue a bit easier to deal with.


--
Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices
http://www.clintonfitch.com
http://www.hpcfactor.com


"I. Kinal" <ikinal@myalias.postalias> wrote in message
news:F07F97F1-CD80-42DD-9A27-2A303E4BF431@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the response!
>
> Yes, I am synchronizing my favorites with my PC via WMDC. The next time
> that
> this problem happens, I will try what you suggest. I will post back here
> at
> that time.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> I. Kinal
>
> "Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have seen this problem before (experienced it as well).
>>
>> Are you synchronizing your favorites with your PC vai ActiveSync/WMDC?
>>
>> If you are synching, AS/WMDC does get confused at times on synchronizing
>> Favorites. When this happens, go into AS/WMDC and disable
>> synchronization
>> of Mobile Favorites. Disconnect your device, reconnect and when it is
>> synch'ed again, recheck Mobile Favorites. It should push them down to
>> your
>> device and you should be good-to-go.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Clinton Fitch, MVP-Mobile Devices
>> http://www.clintonfitch.com
>> http://www.hpcfactor.com
>>
>>
>> "I. Kinal" <ikinal@myalias.postalias> wrote in message
>> news:3AC47474-D193-4C54-AFD2-F258A6B29C97@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 6.1 . In Pocket IE I have
>> > created
>> > a folder of favorites. Every once in a while, all of my favorites in
>> > this
>> > folder will disappear and I have to recreate them. The folder itself is
>> > still
>> > there, as are any favorites that were not in the folder. This has
>> > happened
>> > enough times to me that it is getting quite annoying. Has anybody else
>> > seen
>> > this behavior, or have any insight into the problem?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > I. Kinal
>>

>> The next time that this problem happens, I will <<

Might back them up to your memory card... simply copy the
\windows\favorites folder to another location.

As mentioned, this is a long standing and irritating problem... most of
us have stopped syncing favorites a long time ago... bout 6 years ago in
my case ;-)

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

At 05 Jan 2009 10:00:03 -0600 Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> >> The next time that this problem happens, I will <<
>
> Might back them up to your memory card... simply copy the
\windows\favorites folder to another location.
>
> As mentioned, this is a long standing and irritating problem... most of
us have stopped syncing favorites a long time ago... bout 6 years ago in
my case ;-)
>


Agreed. In my case, I only seem to randomly lose favorites that are
inside subfolders- if I was willing to keep a hundred plus faves all at
the top level, it probably wouldn't be a problem!

I just backup my mobile favorites to a zip file (with Total Commander) on
my storage card every now and then, as you suggest. (I like using a zip
file because of the incredible waste of space on the sorage card
otherwise- each favorite is a separate file of just a few bytes that take
up 4k or 8k each depending on the storage card formatting.)