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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: TOFFEEMAN1878 on February 16, 2007, 17:00

Title: Firefox Bookmarks !
Post by: TOFFEEMAN1878 on February 16, 2007, 17:00

I appear to have lost most of my Bookmarks ,Anyone know how to fix this I have tried re- installing Firefox twice ! >:(

Title: Re: Firefox Bookmarks !
Post by: Lona on February 16, 2007, 18:02

Try looking here............

http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_7.html

Title: Re: Firefox Bookmarks !
Post by: sam on February 16, 2007, 19:38

how do you mean lost?

Title: Re: Firefox Bookmarks !
Post by: Simon on February 16, 2007, 20:18

Bookmarks are stored in a separate folder, in your Firefox profile, which is usually located in C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxxxx.  Unless you have deleted this profile folder, your bookmarks should still be there.  My guess is that you may have switched profiles, and perhaps the bookmarks aren't loaded in the profile you are using?  If that is the case, just copy them across from one profile folder to the other, or switch back to your original profile.  Reinstalling Firefox won't have any effect, if the bookmarks.htm isn't in the profile folder you are using.

Lona's link, by the way, looks very useful.  ;)

Title: Re: Firefox Bookmarks !
Post by: Reno on March 10, 2007, 03:28

I use an addon called bookmark backup that backs up the actual bookmark.html to my webserver directory. If and when you do find your bookmarks i suggest looking into that addon to keep you from having this problem again.