HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

[Maxxarcade]

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?

[Per Hansson]

Re: HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

try running chkdsk and see if it finds any lost data

[Galvanized]

Re: HELP! My bookmarks are gone...

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

[Maxxarcade]

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

[WNG]

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.