Synching Chrome Bookmarks to move to new computer

[YGIFS 19449]

I'm sure it's easy and I'm the idiot (as usual).  Switching from MacBook to a PC for work.  I have everything I need under my gmail work account synched up in the cloud (email, calendars, docs, etc.).  

Online tutorials are not helping.  I need to first synch all the bookmarks (I guess) from desktop chrome to my portable gmail account?  I don't know how to do that.  And then, assuming I can download a clean chrome browser on the new PC, how do I migrate all of that to the new browser?  

Thanks.

[PilotsError 2286]

I just got a new Chromebook and when I fired it up it automatically imported everything over to the new one.  Bookmarks, passwords, etc. I spent zero calories.

Oh, just saw you're going from a Macbook

Disregard what I wrote.

[Updawg 2266]

Can you export them to a file then import to new

[YGIFS 19449]

See, I can't even complete that step.  It allowed me to moved everything else that i customized about the browser except bookmarks.  I only have about 100 or so, but I really don't feel like re-entering them manually if I don't have to.  Even for my tech-illiterate ass, this seems oddly difficult and every single google/chrome tutorial already assumes you magically have them in a portable file or in your cloud account.  Just seems like a weird sticking point.  

[thunderlounge 7812]

Bookmarks don’t sync if you’re logged into chrome?

Interesting. Did not know that. 

[immamac 42832]

35 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Bookmarks don’t sync if you’re logged into chrome?

Interesting. Did not know that. 

There are local ones and non local ones. 

https://www.wikihow.com/Export-Bookmarks-from-Chrome

You just export bookmarks to a file, email it to yourself. Import that file. Viola. 

You can also go into the sync settings of chrome and check the box for bookmarks. 

[thunderlounge 7812]

35 minutes ago, immamac said:

There are local ones and non local ones. 

https://www.wikihow.com/Export-Bookmarks-from-Chrome

You just export bookmarks to a file, email it to yourself. Import that file. Viola. 

You can also go into the sync settings of chrome and check the box for bookmarks. 

Ok, cool. I’m not going crazy then.

[YGIFS 19449]

Then I rise now to ask another dumb question.  How do I export them to a file?  I'm in chrome, I drop down the bookmarks tab up top, nothing about exporting or files or anything.  Just my bookmark tabs and related sites listed out in a different style.  

[immamac 42832]

3 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Then I rise now to ask another dumb question.  How do I export them to a file?  I'm in chrome, I drop down the bookmarks tab up top, nothing about exporting or files or anything.  Just my bookmark tabs and related sites listed out in a different style.  

Chrome options in top right or left with 3 dots and then do export 

[TwiceHorn 31431]

22 hours ago, YGIFS said:

See, I can't even complete that step.  It allowed me to moved everything else that i customized about the browser except bookmarks.  I only have about 100 or so, but I really don't feel like re-entering them manually if I don't have to.  Even for my tech-illiterate ass, this seems oddly difficult and every single google/chrome tutorial already assumes you magically have them in a portable file or in your cloud account.  Just seems like a weird sticking point.  

If you are logged into a Google account through chrome (utexas.edu doesn't count) and you choose to "sync" that account, all your bookmarks and even your history will come to the new machine (well Chrome on that machine), when you log into that account on Chrome on the new machine. So, do that, if you haven't already.

In all likelihood, if you logged into a Gmail account with Chrome, it will be there unless you signed out of the account on the browser or told it not to "sync" or not to sync bookmarks.

Edited August 1 by TwiceHorn