lost all my bookmarks

shifty_uk · 7 Oct 2007 at 13:55

I've just turned my PC on today to find 90% of my bookmarks(in Firefox) has went missing. The few that's left have no names on them. I've tried doing a system restore, but that's no use.

Is there anyway I could get these bookmarks back? I had a lot and need them. I seem to remember firefox doing this in the past, is it a common problem?

Thanks.

[edit]
It could be something to do with the FF update.

bledd · 7 Oct 2007 at 13:57

do a search for bookmarks.html

should be in %appdata% i think

just do a search on whole pc

use mozbackup in future

shifty_uk · 7 Oct 2007 at 14:04

Found them all, thanks dude.

gumbald · 7 Oct 2007 at 14:06

Tried Foxmarks? Keeps them stored remotely, so whenever you do a setup you can just pick them up again. Also keeps them sychronised across all my machines

That would be http://www.foxmarks.com/

TheVoice · 7 Oct 2007 at 14:07

This problem has been around for absolutely ages, you'd think Mozilla would have fixed it by now.

tolien · 7 Oct 2007 at 20:50

Your profile should live at %APPDATA%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/[random text].[profile name]
Did you work out what had happened? bookmarks.html corruption (there are backups kept in bookmarkbackups), Fx decided to start a new profile, localstore.rdf corruption (should be fixed, so I'd be interested if that's still happening)?

TheVoice said:
This problem has been around for absolutely ages, you'd think Mozilla would have fixed it by now.

What problem?
Despite a lot of moaning, no one's actually shown what the problem is ("my bookmarks have disappeared" could be one of a dozen issues, some of which have been fixed or will be fixed in releases that are still in testing), and it's hard to fix a bug you can't reproduce...

bledd · 7 Oct 2007 at 21:30

it happened the other day to my gf on her laptop too

Theguy · 7 Oct 2007 at 22:52

just recently happened to my comp too. never happened before for me. is it just random?

tolien · 7 Oct 2007 at 23:20

Seems to be - writing to a flat file can be a PITA, and as far as I know no one's really found a set of reliable steps that will make Firefox bin its bookmarks.

I'd expect the issue will disappear completely with Fx3, which uses an SQLite file to store bookmarks, history etc.

bledd · 8 Oct 2007 at 00:22

coolio

i've only have it happen 3 times since i've been using firefox, just a bit strange