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by sbhuck

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Using Aida32, I found a set of default urls under netscape history. They only cover 8/25/2003 from 7:55am to 8:48am. All the rest of the history is gone as it should be with my settings. Why are these the only ones here, and how do I get rid of them?
None of the other history for 8/25 or 8/26 or any time before that exists, only these. At the time that these occurred, I was and have been using Mozilla 1.4 as my default browser for over a two weeks now, and no history from this period exists.
Thanks
Wibur Huck

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by thechas

Hi Wilbur,

My first guess is that these URLs are in the registry, and that they are from typed URLs.

Most browsers do not wipe out the typed URLs that are stored in the registry when you clear history.

They may also be trapped information from the switch to Mozilla.

The last I paid attention, Netscape and Mozilla used the same folder for storing the user profiles.
Mozilla may not be able to open and retrieve history from the Netscape History file.

I would look in your user profile for a file of the proper date and time.
Copy the file to a different drive, then delete it.

Make sure that Mozilla runs properly, if so, delete the backup file, and that should be that.

Charlie

by sbhuck

you pointed me in the right direction, and when checking the file was actually named "Wilbur Huck Default". Deleting it got rid of the history in netscape, thanks Wilbur Huck

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