Windows 10: Where does Windows 10 Edge keep its Favorites folder items?

I'm new to Edge, and would love to find where in Windows Explorer it keeps the folder storing Favorites links. However, all I've found so far in searching the Internet in general and TenForums in particular, are W10 Favorites folders which are either empty or contain only icons.

Assuming Microsoft has not encrypted all of Edge's Favorites and moved them to a hidden location as of today (3/13/2017), would someone please direct me to the latest help on this topic, or tell me how a new user should do this?

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The Edge browser internet favorites now includes all of my photo folders. Why?

For some reason, all of my photo folders now appear in my Edge internet favorites, but they don't link to anything. They're all listed with little folder icons. That's almost all I see in the Edge favorites bar. If I try to remove one (there are actually
hundreds of them), it says the folder and all of its contents will be deleted. I don't want to delete the folders. I want to remove them from my internet favorites. Why are they even there?

Windows 10 seems to be obsessed with my photos. It keeps making albums I don't want and must repeatedly keep removing. Now this. I think this has to be the biggest Windows mess I have ever seen. It makes the Edge browser unusable.

1. How do I remove these folders from my Edge internet favorites without completely deleting the folder and the photos?

2. If these folders are deleted, will Windows 10 just keep putting them back like it does with the photo albums?

 

Does Windows 10 Backup support Microsoft Edge

Edge now keeps its information in a database that's located at: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\DataStore\Data\nouser1\120712-0049\DBStore\

You should be able to verify if the files/folders at that location are included in your backup

 

Hi RetiredEngineer

From what I found searching web and adding a favorite or two.

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User \Default\Datastore\Data

From there you keep drilling. You were likely very close as I found a folder with Icons. They are kept in database call spartan.edb

Search this file and you get lots of hits.

My DB was updated with exact time that I added my last favorite.


Ken

 

Use this free program and you are done.

Manage Edge Favorites

 

Imagine burying favorites down this path. Makes backups interesting.


Ken

 

In addition: *Smile

Backup and Restore Microsoft Edge Favorites in Windows 10

 

Excellent resource. That said I don't imagine Backup and Restore (Windows 7) catching this and I'm not sure that other commercial products that backup libraries would catch.

Would you know a reason why they didn't just place DB in Favorites folder?

Without resources like your tutorials people are left exposed.

Thanks Shawn.


Ken

 

Hey Ken, *Smile

Originally, Microsoft Edge favorites were stored in a Favorites folder, but it was changed to a DB file for better security reasons.

 

Fortunately, I have only a few links stored in Edge, so I quickly transferred them to my Links folder, which I use as a keyword-driven lookup table. MS allows 128 caracter file names, and this will hold a lot of keywords, which are searchable from the Search box in the upper right hand corner of File Explorer's windows. Right now I have ~1,500 links stored, and can locate anything in less than a minute using partial keyword searches.