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  • Maxxarcade
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Jul 2006
    • 973
    #1

    HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

    Someone at work turned off my computer with the switch box instead of shutting down windows, and now all my bookmarks are gone from Firefox.

    I have a backup, but I had quite a few new ones that I didn't export yet. Is there any way to get them back?
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    • Per Hansson
      Super Moderator
      • Jul 2005
      • 5895
      • Sweden
      #2
      Re: HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

      try running chkdsk and see if it finds any lost data
      "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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        • Galvanized
          Badcaps Veteran
          • Mar 2006
          • 468
          #3
          Re: HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

          This might be of interest. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

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            • Maxxarcade
              Badcaps Veteran
              • Jul 2006
              • 973
              #4
              Re: HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

              Aww crap! I had already given up and re-formatted the whole computer, since more than just Firefox was messed up. But now I know I probably could have gotten my bookmarks back

              Another lesson learned though. Can't learn how to do things right without screwing up once in a while

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                • WNG
                  Badcaps Veteran
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 354
                  #5
                  Re: HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

                  Perhaps it's in the above link, but some 1.5.x versions of Firefox had weird bookmarks behavior, losing all of them.
                  But under the Firefox profile folder, there is an auto-backup of the bookmarks.html file called bookmarks.bak. Make sure you retrieve this copy before restarting Firefox and allowing it to shutdown. Otherwise it'll get over written by the latest bookmarks.html.

                  I make it a point to back up my bookmarks.html file often. Simply EXPORT it within Firefox to another folder.
                  “We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
                  We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”

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