Utility to do the following...

Hi,

Does anybody know of a simple utility that will search through your IE "favorites" and find those sites which no longer exist (ie return a 404 error) and then remove the links from your favorites?

Cheers,

Lee

[Jonboy]

yes its called clickin the mouse

Originally Posted by Jonboy

yes its called clickin the mouse

Yes....thanks for that!!

Not very helpful when you have over 250 to go through!!

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by lsainsbury

Yes....thanks for that!!

Not very helpful when you have over 250 to go through!!

Try http://www.downloads.com

[Stuart]

I used to use Compass. It's shareware now, but the demo might do the job for you.

http://www.softgauge.com/compass/

Good Grief! there really is software for everything.

Got something that will rub my neck while I'm online?

[MetaWraith]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Good Grief! there really is software for everything.

Got something that will rub my neck while I'm online?

Hmmmmmmm I believe microsoft have a product that may suffice, MSMALE

[Jonboy]

no comment incog

[greencreeper]

It's not brilliant but...

Export your favorites as a htm(l) file to C:\

Go to this site:

http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/

and download the wget.exe. Create a directory for it - say C:\wget - and put the exe in there.

Open a Dos box (Start... Run... Type "command" [Enter])
Change directory to the wget directory - cd c:\wget
Execute the following command, changing the input file name accordingly:

wget -i c:\bookmark.htm -F -o log.txt -t 1 -S --spider -U "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"

I think I got the user agent string right but someone will correct me if not

Give wget time to work - go mow the dog, walk the lawn, or similar

Once it's done, open the log.txt file (it will be in the same directory as wget) and have a read. You can use the find function to look for instances of 404, but you'll have to delete the link from your favorites yourself.

I've tested this on Windows 98 SE and it works. I can't see any reason it shouldn't work on XP but you never know

[Richard M]

I'll just add a note here that if you use Mozilla (not sure if Firefox does this), you can set it to notify you if a page has been updated.
A little OT but still useful...

[greencreeper]

Are you paid by Firefox/Mozilla to promote their products? Come on - fess up. How much do you get?

[Richard M]

I get nothing at all, I just know that it's a genuinely better product.

[Matth]

AM-Deadlink - look no further, not only good, it's pricelessware


Now updated to version 2.00 - and still freeware

Hi,

Thanks for the info people....most helpful! I d/loaded the compass app - it's ok - but not exactly what I wanted. (I don't want any exporting going on - just perform on the "live" links). AM-Deadlink looks the business - wil try that one out...

BTW - I don't have 250 favs saved - Compass found 1,350 - *gulp*!

[Stuart]

You don't need to export with Compass. The option is there if you want to copy the bookmarks to another browser. If you don't, just click "Save".