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When Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play..
and I first joined CP as Old Timer.
Forgot my password and had to create my current account.
First person I came across was Marc Clifton.
Been an awesome experience and met a lot of good people.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Where does the time go?
I've been here a while now - nowhere near you of course - but it seems like yesterday when I found the site, even though it's changed considerably since then.
Anything you miss from those days (other than the soapbox, of course)?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Friends; a few have drifted away and a couple have passed.
Other than that the place is pretty much the same old; pleasurable, aggravating place!
And as to the soapbox, yes and no!
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Good place to share
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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kmoorevs wrote: it's nice to have this community full of some really smart people/interesting characters.
It really is!
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any and I ended up here 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Unfortunately, I couldn't find any and I ended up here
Smile when you say that, stranger! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Mike Hankey wrote: First person I came across was Marc Clifton.
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If I remember right you were helping me with a lame ass article I had written.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Seems about right. But 20 years ago, it wasn't lame ass!
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The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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A good 11 years for me already 
I've been doing this for 12 years and signed up on CP after about half a year 
I remember reading an article by HenryMinute, who unfortunately passed away.
After reading it I signed up to ask him a question about it and he answered pretty quickly and was helpful.
My first message on CP and absolutely noob question is right here under this article: Designing Nested Controls[^]
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Mike Hankey wrote: First person I came across was Marc Clifton.
[..] met a lot of good people.
I am glad our lot could balance that false start 
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Over 16 years for me...
CP is the oldest Website in my life and I think of it like a marriage (until death separate us).
Mike Hankey wrote: Been an awesome experience and met a lot of good people.
Hell yeah!! 100% agree
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I've been a "lurker" for many years. Can count on one hand the number of times I've responded/contributed. However, I REALLY appreciate being able to see these posting daily, especially since I've been WFH for the last 3+ years (pre-covid).
I am definitely a "grey beard" started developing with paper tape - almost miss those days, NOT.
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I started with puNch cards but it was really expensive for me because I had 2 kids that I had to entertain when I went to computer room and they used a lot of them.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Oh yes, punch cards. They made the best and worst confetti (they are really hard to vacuum up again....)
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I worked as a computer operator while attending college and we had a woman COBOL programmer bring in a box of cards to be run and one of the other operators dropped the box. We apologized profusely and gave them back to her to reorganize, she was upset but understanding.
When she gave them back I dropped them and then she was pissed. I offered to help but she refused. I felt like crap!
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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I deleted my Microsoft Edge profile and since I do not do any online sync etc, I do not know where to recover by favourites from. Does anyone know where on disk Edge stores it? I would expect it to be somewhere here and looking into it. But in case someone knows I can do this faster: C:\Users\MyWindowsUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data
Update
I gave up and enabled sync to a google account.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
modified 8-Jun-22 3:15am.
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Should be in
...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default
the "Bookmarks" file.
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There is no Default folder there. And the only bookmarks file (not a folder) I see in user data is empty.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Someone has to say it...
Restore it from last night's backup.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I don't think folks at my office would like to do this for a bookmark file.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I think it is kind of a weird path:
C:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Snapshots\101.0.1210.39\Default
// I guess that 101.0.1210.39 is the version number so check yours
there is a Bookmarks file in there...
snapshot of the folder --
https://i.stack.imgur.com/2G0Wl.png[^]
I'm fairly sure that will be a Sqlite file. I'm checking on it now to see (will let you know).
UPDATE
Looks like the Bookmarks file is basically JSON -- snippet...
{
"date_added": "13252084155113895",
"guid": "3eb09616-b2d8-4da8-98f1-5f1dbad21bad",
"id": "30",
"name": "Information About the IIS File Transmission Protocol (FTP) Service",
"show_icon": false,
"source": "import_fre",
"type": "url",
"url": "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283679"
}, {
Update 2
Oh, also saw it up date Bookmarks file in:
C:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default
I see there are Bookmarks.bak in there too.
I added google.com & saw it update the Bookmarks file:
"children": [ {
"date_added": "13299089499366901",
"guid": "15938707-b5f5-4bf2-b48e-0f0a2e149394",
"id": "244",
"name": "Google",
"show_icon": false,
"source": "user_add",
"type": "url",
"url": "https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl"
modified 7-Jun-22 11:53am.
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Looks so promising but I see nothing. I think I know what might have happened. I created a new profile to see where goes what for a profile and it create the profile with same name as the one I deleted. Thus, everything is gone. I did manage to redo all the work. I had like 10 bookmarks and I lost my Quantum computing book link. Other than that I think I have it all.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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