Moving contents of old Favorites File to newly installed Edge with no contents

hi Yobs. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, specializing in Installation, Performance, Troubleshooting and Activation, here to help you.

Well Edge normally exports and imports Favorites manually using HTML files, so you can try to adapt that using this method:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/143983-how-...

If that can't be configured to import them, then you can copy the HTML links into the Windows c:\Users\Your User Name\Favorites folder which still backs up Internet Explorer Favorites. This will populate them in Internet Explorer which can laterally transfer them over to Edge like all browsers do now.

To access Internet Explorer type IE in Search. If it's not there go into Settings > Apps > Apps & Features > Optional Features > Installed Features or Add a Feature.

To transfer Internet Explorer Favorites to Edge see here:
https://www.lifewire.com/import-favorites-to-ed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMY-KdghMC8

Feel free to ask back any questions. If you'll report back results for each step, including in each link, it can help determine what else we need to try. I will stick with you until it is fixed.

Happy New Year!

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1. Copy you favorites to Windows C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Favorites folder. IE stores its favorites in this folder.

2. 2.     Go to edge://favorites

3. 3.     Click on ellipsis (...) -> Import favorites

4. Select Microsoft Internet Explorer value for Import from, check Favorites or bookmarks, & click Import