Why will Internet Explorer 8 not let me save my favorites to old folders?

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I just got a new computer for work.  IT copied over all of my favorites from my old XP computer.  Including all of the favorites sub folders.  For some reason Internet Explorer 8 will let me save a webpage to my favorites folder and to new folders I create in my Favorites folder.  But it will not let me save any favorites to a folder that was created on my old XP computer.  The folders are in the same location as the others and appear to be set up the same. Even when I rename a folder it still won't save the favorite to it.  

I'm wondering if somehow Windows XP creates folders differently than Windows 7?  I've got dozens of folders and would hate to manually create new folders for all, copy over all the data and then rename th folders accordingly.

Easy Peasy · Accepted Answer

Have you checked the Permissions of the problem folders through Windows Explorer? You may have imported them as the administrator or with administrator permissions and not as your normal login. All you may need to do then is change ownership of the problem folders to your normal login.Change the highest level folders permissions to yourself as the owner and make sure permissions are inherited.
If it is already set to you try changing ownership to administrator then changing it back. 
The alternative would be to move the problem folders onto another media, FAT32 format as this will lose the permissions, then copy them back with your normal login. That should not be as onerous as renaming them individually as they could be transferred in bulk.

papen · Answer

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Why will Internet Explorer 8 not let me save my favorites to old folders?

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