I've been experiencing some weird behavior with IE9 and how it saves and reads favorites/bookmarks. I have a hunch that this is related to how my company has locked my workstation down
Concerning Saving internet shortcuts: I can save an internet shortcut and I will see it appear in the Favorites side bar, but when I go to look for it in the C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Favorites, it does not appear. I can restart IE, I can restart the OS - all to no avail. I even looked at the properties inside IE, and it shows the location of the internet shortcut as the folder above. And it's not marked hidden.
Concerning Reading internet shortcuts: I can copy an internet shortcut into the file location C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Favorites, but it does not appear in the Favorites side bar. Again, I can restart IE, I can restart the OS - all to no avail. It does not appear. I can click on it from the filesystem and it will open in IE, so no problems there, it just won't appear in my favorites.
The only fix I've been able to remedy this problem is to close IE, move the entire Favorites folder to some neutral ground (i.e C:\Temp) and reopen IE. Anyone have a more elegant solution to this problem? Any ideas what is causing this behavior?
Thanks.