Sync Edge and IE favorites across devices

Introduction Edge and IE save their favorites in different locations and neither give you the option to sync between the two or to sy...

Introduction

Edge and IE save their favorites in different locations and neither give you the option to sync between the two or to sync across devices.

the simplest workaround is to create a symlink from your Edge favorites to your IE and then remap your IE favorites folder to your one-drive location. You will have to do the same for all your devices.

Steps (3 total)

1

copy your edge favorites to your IE favorites location (as a safety backup):

mine was C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\Favorites
to
C:\Users\myname\Favorites

2

create a symlink from your edge favorites to your ie favorites

https://github.com/amd989/Symlinker
or manually
mklink /j "C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\" "C:\Users\myname\Favorites"

3

move your IE favorites to onedrive

right click IE favorites folder>location>find your onedrive >move

Conclusion

Remember that you will have to do the same for all your devices and have to allow onedrive to sync the new IE favorites folder location.

References

• symlink
• symlink creator