The day I lost my bookmarks...
 

...all 600 of 'em. :cry:
I was getting a weird error after installing Google Accelerator (although I don't think this was the problem) so I uninstalled Firefox and nuked my profile.
Big mistake, I lost every bookmark I'd kept for about 2 years, my password file, plus cookies which means that I now have to do the usual "forgot your password?" :rolleyes: thing every time I visit one of my websites.
This sucks.

BACK UP YOUR PROFILE PEOPLE!

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Oops ....

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You should have backed up your profile (oops). MozBackup is pretty helpful to avoid future occurrences :)

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I've been using the Bookmark FTP Sync. extension since the early beta's... it's best way (other than the portable installation) to keep multiple installs on the same set of bookmarks.

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Thanks for the reminder - so I've just done mine (bloody painkillers don't work and I can't have another till 6! :D )

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How do you backup your profile?

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I had a problem even launching firefox after installing the accelerator but a reboot cleared that problem up. Never mind Rich, sometimes you learn your lessons the hard way :( Have you never exported youor faves list to use on another PC?
Here have a prezzie to cheer yourself up....
BBC
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2005/05/12.jpg

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Hmm, I recently re-installed my OS so I must have backed them up somewhere.
Trouble is, I'm sure I deleted the backup file.

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Poo :( I've got a copy of mine one each of the PC's and the laptop here and I'm going to do the same with Elaines' bookmarks. Goodluck finding them, you never know, you may find a little HTML file somewhere that will cheer you up ;)

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Can't you use an undelete program?

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Exactly what i was thinking.

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cant you just remember the links? i only have 13 bookmarks... .:erm:

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13 !!!
Crikey ! You new to the Internet or something ?

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I've only 9 bookmarks lol

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I usually only have a few bookmarks (at most 20).

Previously I had nearly 300, but, TBH, I found I had started to spend too much time looking for the bookmark for a site, and not enough looking at the site.

So, I just deleted all of them. I know the URLs of the sites I use most regularly (I have a good memory for stuff like that), and I find it quicker to type the URL.

BTW, I'm certainly not a newbie. Been using the 'net 10 years this year..

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I've got a quite a few, but with a lot of them, I haven't visited since I bookmarked them, a few years ago. I just haven't cleared them out.

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i find it quicker just to type into google the site name and let it do the rest. that, or just remember the url cos i'm sad and can remember long boring things like that... :disturbd:

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I back up my bookmarks and I have over 300 :eek:

But don't worry I mean there is plenty of pron sites if you lost your bookmarks ;):D:p::disturbd:

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Whoops! big loss.

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What's a bookmark? :erm: Do you mean your Favourites? I have a script that runs each morning - copies them somewhere else. I have hundreds of the things - can never find what I want :D

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Ah yes, an IE user - soon to be extinct. :D

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Did you try looking down the back of the sofa?

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's funny. Every browser on the planet (apart from IE) calls them bookmarks.. IE has to be different..

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Well given that the Internet consists of websites and not books (that would be a library), maybe "Favorite" is more appropriate?