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    Update to Firefox 3 - bookmarks all wrong...

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ravenmorpheus, Jan 7, 2009.

  1. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Hi

    I just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 and I've lost my recent list of bookmarks.

    For some reason Firefox has decided to use a list of bookmarks that is quite old. I didn't have anything new that I can't find again on the list of bookmarks I had but it is rather annoying.

    Does anyone know if I can get the bookmarks I had back?

    I've tried a restore using system restore, I've tried restoring the firefox folders in my user directory (local settings application data) from an acronis true image backup I have from the 2nd of December and neither of those things has worked. :(

    I have googled for a solution to this but I've drawn a blank...

    Thanks in advance for any advice on this. :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Jan 7, 2009
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  2. vinumsv

    vinumsv MobileFreak™

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    AFAIK FF keeps multiple bookmark files in the user profiles , check them one by one then import the one which has most bm

    Code: 
    %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(random).default\bookmarkbackups
     
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  3. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Yeah I tried copying them over as well but that doesn't work and there isn't any import option in FF3 other than for importing from IE. :(
     
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    vinumsv MobileFreak™

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    There is option mate :D

    Just goto Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Import HTML

    after this just import the bookmark file you wanted :D
     
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    Ah bugger I must've missed that one.

    I'll try restoring from an acronis backup I've done to a new location (rather than overwriting the original files) and see if I can import the list I want.

    Just tried it with the ones already on the system and it didn't do anything, I still had the list it's picked up.

    Dunno where it picked the older list of bookmarks up from though, very odd. :confused:
     
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    qhn Notebook User

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    Tried this?
    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks_after_Firefox_3_upgrade

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Jan 7, 2009
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    Ooh I never came across that when I had a search through google. It looks like it should solve it as it is very similar to the problem I've got, I'll give that a go and see if it works.
     
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    Ok finally got around to trying this. And it has worked. Thank you ghn, much appreciated. Rep for you.

    And thank you vinumsv for your advice as well. :)

    Now, just gotta get around to doing the same thing in Vista...
     
    ravenmorpheus, Jan 8, 2009
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