How do I make Edge Favorites part of the Roaming Profile?

2016-01-04

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_{Monday, January 4, 2016 10:21 PM}

Hi,

Is there a way to make your edge favorites sync from device to device in Windows 10? (Yes or No question?)

If so: How?

If Not: is there an easy (for the user) alternative?

Thanks,

Kevin

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_{Monday, January 4, 2016 11:22 PM ✅Answered}

Well going to offer a third and perhaps different opinion here. Since the November TH2 update Edge Favourites have synced for me for the same Microsoft account (MSA). In Setting > Accounts > Sync your settings. with Sync settings on they sync. Logging into a new machine with same MSA they appear. Also since TH2 "The new version of Windows 10, the favorites of the Microsoft Edge are stored in a database located at the following location:

%LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\DataStore"

(thanks to Karen Hu and from this thread)

So beyond the same MSA account being used, no do not know how to copy or sync then.

_{Tuesday, January 5, 2016 6:20 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

As we can see that the favorite is under %LocalAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\DataStore", but it wasn't contained in Roaming folder under AppData:

We may have to use mklink to redirect to the folder under Roaming folders:

Eg: https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/122418-sync-edge-and-ie-favorites-across-devices

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_{Monday, January 4, 2016 10:32 PM}

No, per this article Edge stores the favorites in the AppData\Local folder , https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/46b26a37-d312-4cc6-9192-7fec70fb770f/edge-favourites-not-in-roaming-profile?forum=win10itprogeneral

Alternative is to import favorites:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/import-favorites-in-microsoft-edge

Thanks,
MikeV
MCSE 2012

_{Monday, January 4, 2016 10:53 PM}

I understand that you wish to save your Microsoft Edge's favorites in your OneDrive. Perhaps the easiest way is to set the Favorites folder to be saved inside your OneDrive folder.

If you don't already have one there, create a folder named "Favorites" inside your OneDrive folder.
Right-click the Favorites folder, and choose Properties
On the Location tab, click Move, and choose the Favorites folder you created in step 1.
Confirm that you want to move your Favorites folder.
You'll still see a Favorites folder inside your C:\Users\User_name folder, but it'll actually become a redirect, i.e. anything put there will actually be inside OneDrive (both on your hard drive and, of course, synced up to OneDrive cloud). You can even do this for your Desktop folder and other special shell folders that have a location tab on their properties.

Let us know if the workaround works.

_{Thursday, January 14, 2016 1:31 AM}

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_{Thursday, February 4, 2016 1:22 AM}

Rather than muck with symbolic links, or change undocumented registry keys, we simply copy the favorites database from/to a network location during logon and logoff...

Notes:

Our computers are domain-joined
We sync the favorites to a hidden/system Windows folder in the user's home folder (but you can store the files anywhere)
Specify the following PowerShell script as a Logon and Logoff script via GPO.
If the user runs Edge on several computers simultaneously, then it's not perfect. But, it's excellent for people who use one computer at-a-time.

$NetworkEdgeDataPath = "$env:HOMESHARE\Windows\EdgeFavorites"
$LocalEdgePackagePath = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe"
$LocalEdgeDataPath = "$LocalEdgePackagePath\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\DataStore"
$EdgeFavoritesDBfile = "Data\nouser1\120712-0049\DBStore\spartan.edb"

function SyncDirFromFile([string] $File1, [string] $File2, [string] $Dir1, [string] $Dir2) {

    if (!(Test-Path $File1) -and !(Test-Path $File2)) { "Neither compare file exists. Aborting" ; return }

    $File1Date = get-Item $File1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | foreach-Object {$_.LastWriteTimeUTC}
    $File2Date = get-Item $File2 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | foreach-Object {$_.LastWriteTimeUTC}

    if ($File1Date -eq $File2Date)  { "Files have same date. Aborting" ; return }

    if ($File1Date -gt $File2Date) {
        "$File1 is Newer" ; $source = $Dir1 ; $dest = $Dir2
    } else {
        "$File2 is Newer" ; $source = $Dir2 ; $dest = $Dir1
    }

    robocopy "$source" "$dest" /MIR /R:2 /W:2
}

if (Test-Path $LocalEdgePackagePath) {
    SyncDirFromFile "$NetworkEdgeDataPath\$EdgeFavoritesDBfile" "$LocalEdgeDataPath\$EdgeFavoritesDBfile" $NetworkEdgeDataPath $LocalEdgeDataPath
} else { "Microsoft Edge is not installed" }

You should only have to change the first line to the location where you want to store the favorites.

-Tony

_{Sunday, May 8, 2016 4:11 PM}

What a shame that Microsoft has made such a mess with this. Why not just using the friggin' C:\Users\USERNAME\Favorites folder?

I'd be fine with IE and Edge pulling from the same directory. In fact, it'd probably work better in my environment.

_{Saturday, June 25, 2016 10:09 PM}

For those who are still wanting to use OneDrive/DropBox (or other such storage services) instead of the built-in Edge synchronization feature... there is now another option

Take a look at this 3rd-party application called EdgeSync. It will allow you to use OneDrive/DropBox, etc. to keep a "master" copy of your favorites that can be used to synchronize with other PCs. It is NOT a redirection tool... it is a synchronization tool, so it takes a few minutes to configure the first time.

http://www.emmet-gray.com/Articles/EdgeSync.html

_{Saturday, July 7, 2018 9:37 PM}

My guess is that the database facilitates synchronization across devices. HOWEVER, I am giving up on Edge because of ongoing issues with favorites and intermittent missing history.

_{Sunday, July 8, 2018 10:05 AM}

This is very easy with newer builds of Windows 10. Enable the "Keep favorites in sync between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge" policy, then redirect the favorites folder as usual.

Details:

Managing Favorites for Edge and Internet Explorer

-Tony

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