# Will rearranging IE favorites via the Explorer break anything?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-rearranging-ie-favorites-via-the-explorer-break-anything/691081>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-rearranging-ie-favorites-via-the-explorer-break-anything/691081 "2014-06-18T17:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-rearranging-ie-favorites-via-the-explorer-break-anything/691081/1 "2014-06-18T17:21:48Z")

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I’ve notices that the Interner Explorer ‘favorites’ look like an ordinary nest of folders beneath the /user/\<name\> folder.

I have an ungodly mess of bookmarks. It seems it would be easier to simply make new folders and drag and drop them about to organize them using the regular explorer (or, even better, one of the two window view replacements) rather than using the ‘arrange bookmarks’ thingy under the IE favorites command within IE.

Is there any reason not to do it this way?

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**Author:** ![Stealth\_Bragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stealth\_Bragg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Bragg)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-rearranging-ie-favorites-via-the-explorer-break-anything/691081/2 "2014-06-19T08:26:42Z")

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Nope, should work fine.

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**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-rearranging-ie-favorites-via-the-explorer-break-anything/691081/3 "2014-06-19T09:57:26Z")

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That’s the only thing I ever missed about IE: manipulating the bookmarks through a file manager.  
I barely bother with bookmarks now, but when they were more necessary I preferred sorting and deleting that way.

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-rearranging-ie-favorites-via-the-explorer-break-anything/691081/4 "2014-06-19T14:45:26Z")

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Thank you, both! It seemed the obvious way to do it, but sometimes ‘obvious’ means ‘lurking trap’…