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Firefox bookmarks
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Posted on 06/14/2008 5:49:49 PM PDT by Keltik

My Firefox bookmarks on my laptop have completely disappeared. Is there any way they can be retrieved?


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computers; firefox

1 posted on 06/14/2008 5:49:50 PM PDT by Keltik
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To: Keltik

I remember this happened to my husband’s bookmarks with Firefox on our laptop. It was a couple months ago. Trying to remember wht he did to get them back.


2 posted on 06/14/2008 5:54:17 PM PDT by muggs (No matter who wins, America loses)
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To: Keltik
It creates a backup of your bookmarks every day - you can use this to recover them. Here's a link on how to recover them: Lost bookmarks.
3 posted on 06/14/2008 5:55:06 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: Keltik

This has happened to my daughter in the past on her Firefox profile. I’m not personally aware of anyway to bring them back.... Sorry to tell you that! Maybe someone here knows of a way, but I sure don’t...


4 posted on 06/14/2008 5:56:20 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: TheWasteLand

I should’ve posted here when this happened to my daughter! Glad there is a way to do this!


5 posted on 06/14/2008 5:58:55 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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6 posted on 06/14/2008 6:02:28 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: TheWasteLand
Thanks for the great mozillaine.org link. I hadn't heard of it before.
http://www.mozillazine.org/

Here's one for the new FireFox-3 coming out this Tuesday.
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc3/releasenotes/

7 posted on 06/14/2008 6:13:15 PM PDT by ETL
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To: Keltik

There’s a Firefox add-on called Foxmarks. This is a synchronizing program in case you use more than one computer. The bookmarks are stored on a server online that you can access even from a non-Foxmarked computer. Even if you only have one computer, it’s still handy for just such an event.


8 posted on 06/14/2008 6:36:12 PM PDT by Big Giant Head (I should change my tagline to "Big Giant penguin on my Head")
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To: Keltik

Your bookmarks are stored in a file in your user profile.

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ramdomcharacters.default\Bookmarks.html

For some reason Firefox loses association with the bookmarks file, and you have to rename the backup bookmarks file from the same directory.


9 posted on 06/14/2008 7:05:30 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: TheWasteLand

The link seems to have done the trick — thanks a lot!


10 posted on 06/14/2008 8:02:28 PM PDT by Keltik ("The goal should not be diversity -- the goal must be Quality.")
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To: Keltik

KoRn’s post above is correct.

You have a second option, you can download Mozbackup at http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ and try to see if you can back up the bookmarks if they are still there, then you can restore them to your (accidentally created new profile that has no bookmarks) profile.

Note that firefox bookmarks are written in html , you can open the file in a word processor and edit it as desired.


11 posted on 06/14/2008 8:44:49 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: JerseyHighlander
Mozbackup is a good bookmark for managing plugins. I recommend folks periodically backup their entire mozilla profile directory periodically (empty the cache first), because there is little worse than losing your profile, and it's passwords, cookies, and usernames, as well as your bookmarks.

I Got into the habit of doing this monthly when Firefox (it was called something else then) was at a .1 or .2 release.

My "bookmarks" file is over 10 years old, (I've migrated it from netscape 1.x days) and I'd be really pissed if I lost it. Lotta history there.

12 posted on 06/15/2008 9:56:12 AM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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