Where are my Bookmarks?

Russ · 13-08-2005, 11:15

Can anyone suggest a reason as to why all 167 of my Bookmarks have disappeared from Firefox?

I haven't changed anything, I'm using the latest version, everything was ok until this morning when I clicked on the tab and they've all gone

Roy MM · 13-08-2005, 11:19

Bloody thieves are everywhere, sorry Russ no idea where they've gone.

TheBlueRaja · 13-08-2005, 11:22

Have a look in

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<some random cache diretory>\ for a file called bookmarks.html or better yet search for it and find your one (that has all your bookmarks in it) then overwrite the blank one with this.

Sounds like you now have a new profile for some reason.

aliferste · 13-08-2005, 11:23

Exact same thing happened to me the other day Russ. Except with me it was a system freeze and I had to reboot. All bookmarks gone. I looked into trying to get them back but it turns out that its quite common. It has now happened to me 3 times. Once around 6 months ago.....I had a backup, then the other day and then the next day again once I had started to build them back up.

Annoyed........a lot!!!

paul11974 · 13-08-2005, 11:26

look in the programme files ..locate firefox open it then open the defaults folder and then open the profile folder and there should be your bookmarks

Russ · 13-08-2005, 11:26

And this is the browser we're supposed to use instead of IE6, with which this have never happened to me

Richard M · 13-08-2005, 12:00

There should be a file called bookmarks.bak in your profile folder, rename this to bookmarks.html if it's bigger than the existing file.
My profile is at C:\Documents and Settings\richard\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\nznztyex.default, yours will be similar.

TheBlueRaja · 13-08-2005, 12:15

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Originally Posted by Russ D

And this is the browser we're supposed to use instead of IE6, with which this have never happened to me

Perhaps if you wanted to fix this you could stop moaning about it and give us some feedback to our suggestions.

You bookmarks may be there, you may have accidentally created a new profile and not noticed, you may have been the cause and not Firefox.

So, lets have a look first and jump to conclusions later.

Russ · 13-08-2005, 12:20

As I said, I have not changed anything. I have not created a new profile. To be honest the only thing I tend to do these days (and have been doing) is playing Championship Manager 03/04 and occasionally browsing while waiting for parts of it to load. Nothing else.

The file location you and Richard suggest doesn't work for me as there is no file called 'Application Data' in my 'user' file in XP.

To be honest I'm not sure why I've been trying to use Firefox. It's always struck me as being slower than IE6 which has never caused me trouble. I've given it a go and I'm not impressed at all, especially after this. I only want to try and locate my bookmarks so I can transfer them to IE then uninstall Firefox forever.

Raistlin · 13-08-2005, 12:24

Application Data is a hideen folder, make sure that you have got the option set to show hidden files and folders.
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Go to the Documents and Settings folder on your C: drive, and then to the folder called by your login name.

Then do the following:

Tools > Folder Options > View > Hidden Files and Folders > Show hidden files and folders.

MadGamer · 13-08-2005, 12:25

To get to the Application Data folder alternativly, go to Start, click on Run and type %AppData%

Richard M · 13-08-2005, 12:26

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Originally Posted by Russ D

As I said, I have not changed anything. I have not created a new profile. To be honest the only thing I tend to do these days (and have been doing) is playing Championship Manager 03/04 and occasionally browsing while waiting for parts of it to load. Nothing else.

The file location you and Richard suggest doesn't work for me as there is no file called 'Application Data' in my 'user' file in XP.

To be honest I'm not sure why I've been trying to use Firefox. It's always struck me as being slower than IE6 which has never caused me trouble. I've given it a go and I'm not impressed at all, especially after this. I only want to try and locate my bookmarks so I can transfer them to IE then uninstall Firefox forever.

So you give up at the first sign of trouble?

Well if you use IE you could be in a lot more trouble than losing your bookmarks, how about the contents of your bank account ?

Russ · 13-08-2005, 12:30

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Originally Posted by Richard M

So you give up at the first sign of trouble?

I go for ease of use every time

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Well if you use IE you could be in a lot more trouble than losing your bookmarks, how about the contents of your bank account ?

I don't do any online banking. But this isn't another FF vs IE thread (and I certainly know which one I'll go for EVERY time). I've managed to locate the bookmarks file (Thanks to everyone) so I've imported them in to IE so I can now happily remove FF.

Raistlin · 13-08-2005, 12:32

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Originally Posted by Russ D

<Snipped the bits that don't matter within the context of this thread and got straight to the important bit >I've managed to locate the bookmarks file (Thanks to everyone) so I've imported them in to IE so I can now happily remove FF.

Glad you've got it sorted mate, hope IE works out better for you

Graham · 13-08-2005, 15:21

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Originally Posted by Russ D

I've managed to locate the bookmarks file (Thanks to everyone) so I've imported them in to IE so I can now happily remove FF.

So because you've had one problem with FF you're going to switch back to the browser with all the security holes and risks of viruses/ trojans/ worms etc?