Firefox has deleted my bookmarks again!

G-MAN2004 · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:15

Not happy now. Firefox has updated and what a surprise... Bookmarks have vanished. I must have had over 200 bookmarks with some pretty important sites.

It's only ever done this twice before and then stopped so I thought I was ok now. Any chance of getting them back?

Thanks.

MarcLister · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:18

Have you checked out the profile folder to see if the bookmarks file is still there in some form?

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

If you have already done this then I can't think of anything else. Sorry.

Perhaps tolien might know something that would help you out here.

Scottland · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:19

The file they are stored in is called bookmarks.html, so try searching for that.

For future reference though, Foxmarks is a really good extension

b3mor · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:23

That link should explain how to do it. I had the same thing happen before and nearly lost a load of bookmarks but this got them back.

G-MAN2004 · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:25

Just managed to get them back before I read your posts. They're located in 'Bookmarkbackups' in your Firefox profile. Feel better now, lol.

Thanks for replies.

MarcLister · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:26

Good news.

I'd think about either exporting the bookmarks in Firefox manually or installing an extension that would backup the bookmarks to a file on your PC for you.

Scottland · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:32

MarcLister said:
Good news. I'd think about either exporting the bookmarks in Firefox manually or installing an extension that would backup the bookmarks to a file on your PC for you.

Aye, Foxmarks is great IMO. You can specify your own FTP too, rather than use their own servers.

MarcLister · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:45

I used to edit my bookmarks a lot; I'd add new links from Lifehacker.com or just generally tidy them up every week so I just did this manually.

However I've now ditched Firefox for Opera and no lost bookmarks....yet!

Kainz · 22 Aug 2007 at 18:55

http://www.foxcloud.com/wiki/Foxmarks:_Product_Features
Can't beat it. I've never ever lost a bookmark but that extension is so valuable. I store my bookmarks on their servers.

lay-z-boy · 22 Aug 2007 at 19:27

Foxmarks user here too, keeps the bookmarks on 3 pc's all in sync

MikeHunt79 · 22 Aug 2007 at 22:15

Just installed foxmarks - good stuff. :cool:

Bane · 6 Sep 2007 at 18:28

Have had the same thing happen to me. Used to store my profile on another drive, but after the auto update the profile was moved to default location on C: drive

Lost all bookmarks and passwords, as for some reason the files of my original profile are original size. Fairly miffed at Firefox, but I should have remembered to disabled the auto update feature.

marc2003 · 6 Sep 2007 at 18:33

i don't see how you can lose your bookmarks. it stores the last 5 days as backups in the profile folder? a separate file for each day? :confused: