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So I bookmark all these websites and these nice icons appear... and now they're gone!

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Stealth1024

Platinum Member
This is pretty off topic and not terribly important but I'm wondering how to fix this.

When I bookmark a web site the icon in the favorites menu usually takes on an icon of the site (if the web developer provided one, which they usually do, anyway...), but after a week of so the icons return to their boring generic icon. Is there any way to refresh this or make it permanent?

Thanks
 
Have we found a question that ATOT can't answer?!?! :Q

On a side note, I hate the fact that if you delete the "Links" bookmark folder in IE, it just reappears later. :|
 
When you hit a site that uses the favicon.ico file you'll get the little picture on your bookmarks and in the address bar of the browser. But like most things on the web, it's downloaded from the site to your computer only once and is stored in cache as a temporary file. When your cache flushes, the favicon.ico goes with it and it'll revert back to the default picture. It won't reload the next time you visit the site as most cacheable files do though. To get it back after it disappears you need to delete the bookmark and re-bookmark that page.
 
Originally posted by: bigsmooth
Have we found a question that ATOT can't answer?!?! :Q

On a side note, I hate the fact that if you delete the "Links" bookmark folder in IE, it just reappears later. :|
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right click on the "Links" folder and go to Properties. General tab, check the "Hidden" box and click OK. make sure you have "Do not show hidden files and folders" on too. that should solve it! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: americangigolo
Originally posted by: bigsmooth
Have we found a question that ATOT can't answer?!?! :Q

On a side note, I hate the fact that if you delete the "Links" bookmark folder in IE, it just reappears later. :|
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right click on the "Links" folder and go to Properties. General tab, check the "Hidden" box and click OK. make sure you have "Do not show hidden files and folders" on too. that should solve it! 🙂
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Never thought of that, duh. 😱 Thanks for the tip! 🙂
 
ok, so there is still no permanent fix other than not deleting your temp files? There has to be something out there?
 
Originally posted by: her209
The reason why they disappear is because you clear the cache. Its stored in the cache!!!
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Yeah.....but WHY do they keep on dissapearing?


//Making fun of the people in this thread 😛





KeyserSoze
 
Just copy the icons from your cache to another folder and change the icon for the shortcut in its properties. A PITA if you have a ton of favorites with favico's, but it's the only way I know to fix it.

BTW, this is the wrong forum for this.
 
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