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    Retrieving lost bookmarks in Firefox?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Forced, Sep 25, 2008.

  1. Forced

    Forced Notebook Geek

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    So, I just opened up firefox and noticed all my bookmarks are suddenly gone for no reason, including the bookmarks toolbar.

    Everything else is there, history, saved passwords, cookies, etc. I see no reason for them to disappear like that.


    I restarted firefox but it didn't help. Is there any place they might be stored on my computer still so I can get them back?
    I have a lot of bookmarks that I use constantly, it really sucks to have to start all over again.
     
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  2. Hiker

    Hiker Notebook Deity

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    I think there's a bookmarks older in your Firefox folder. I use Foxmarks add on which automatically backs to up online. And Mozbackup to my hard drive.
     
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  3. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Check to see which profile Firefox is loading. It may have created a new one for whatever reason and your old one is still intact.
     
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  4. Forced

    Forced Notebook Geek

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    I looked through the Mozilla FireFox folder but I can't find it. Can you give me a specific location or something?



    I don't know anything about profiles...

    Thanks.
     
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  5. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    It should be here

    C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox and look at the profiles folder to see if there is just one addition folder or more.
     
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  6. Forced

    Forced Notebook Geek

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    Okay there's just one profile.
    It has a Bookmarks Firefox document (which is empty, it only has the one bookmark I just added a minute ago) then there's a bookmarks.bak and a bookmarks.html.sbsd.bak folder, both of which just go to the "Windows cannot open this file" because it doesn't know what to do with it, etc. etc..
     
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  7. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Delete or rename the current bookmarks.html and rename the bookmarks.html.sdsd.bak to just .html.
     
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  8. Forced

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    The only thing that changed is now it opens my one new bookmark in some goofy side window, as if it were the history pane.
     
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  9. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    Try the other .bak file (bookmarks.bak) too, rename it to bookmarks.html and see if there is any difference from the other .bak file. Both of these should be a backup or the previous update of your bookmarks.html file.
     
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  10. Forced

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    No change, and it still opens in the side pane....
     
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  11. davidfor

    davidfor Notebook Consultant

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    What version of Firefox is this? The storage of bookmarks changed completely in V3, so what you need to do to recover from lost bookmarks has changed. Have a read of http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks for how to recover them in most versions of Firefox.

    David
     
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  12. Forced

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    Oh, yeah, it's version 2.0.0.17
     
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    Worked perfectly. THANK YOU.

    The only thing it didn't do was restore the bookmarks toolbar folder. But I only have like 3 there anyway so that's no big deal.

    Thanks again.
     
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