Firefox Bookmarks

The_Goose

Hey all,
Firefox seems to be loosing my bookmarks every few months.
Its happened twice now, s ois there anyway to ge them
back or stop it from happening again?

MrJoeSoap

It happened me yesterday too, I'd really appreciate it if someone knew a way to get them back...

maidhc

Go to the bookmark manager and click export in the file menu. It will export the bookmarks to a html file and you can import them if they dissappear again.

Strange they dissappear though, do you delete the firefox install folder, or the default profile or something?

aaf

Bookmark Backup

KdjaCL

aaf wrote:

Bookmark Backup

Use that if Firefox crashes all your bookmarks gone, using that saves them.


kdjac

byte

Oh, handy tool that. Just in case FFox ever decides to wipe mine out.

Thanks for the link.

WizZard

Argh, mine just disappeared!

OfflerCrocGod

I thought it had stopped doing that stuff months ago!? There is a bookmarks backup folder in the latest builds of Fx I suggest you guys grab the 1.5 beta I you are using Fx 1. I suppose a clean install would be best.

OfflerCrocGod

Oh and by the way you should all check inside the Fx profiles directory to see if you have backups of your bookmarks - you may just get lucky. C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles is the directory (replace USERNAME with your usename) the directory is a hidden one so unhide it (windows hides lots of useful stuff I hate that!)

shamalive

Perhaps what's happening here is that your profile is locking when you crash.

When you re-start firefox you're getting a new profile and so
you think all your settings/ bookmarks are gone, not so.

Restart your machine, and go start> run

enter


firefox -profilemanager


Choose your original profile,
this should solve the problem.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Wow freaky, lots of people losing their bookmarks... I lost all my mozilla bookmarks yesterday or the day before... just out of the blue... there one minute, all gone the next. :eek:
I imported a backup, but I could only find one from ~10 months ago.
(I've only been using the one 'default' profile.)
Never happened to me before... weird that it's happened to a few people here around the same time isn't it? .. maybe there's something going around?

shamalive

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Wow freaky, lots of people losing their bookmarks... I lost all my mozilla bookmarks yesterday or the day before... just out of the blue... there one minute, all gone the next. :eek:
I imported a backup, but I could only find one from ~10 months ago.
(I've only been using the one 'default' profile.)
Never happened to me before... weird that it's happened to a few people here around the same time isn't it? .. maybe there's something going around?

Did you try the profile manager thing as above?
When the profile is locked firefox automatically assigns a new profile,
hence the bookmarks "disappear".

DonkeyStyle \o/

shamalive wrote:

Did you try the profile manager thing as above?

Well I'm using Mozilla, so firefox -profilemanager isn't likely to do much :v:
Anyway, I can access the profile manager through Mozillas main menubar... and, as ever, there is only one profile listed - 'default', which is what I always use.
Even in the \Documents and Settings\..\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\ folder there is only one profile folder named 'default'.
Weird aswell though, everything else associated with that profile (my mail settings, browser options, irc etc) are all fully intact.... only the bookmarks were wiped.

Fudged tbh

DonkeyStyle \o/

Actually, just reading the firefox forums there, it seems this kind of thing happens if the machine is restarted while mozilla is running... which I have to say happened an awful lot the other day when nvTune went and bluescreened me over and over

Bah, note to self: export your bookmarks more often.

shamalive

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Well I'm using Mozilla, so firefox -profilemanager isn't likely to do much :v:
Anyway, I can access the profile manager through Mozillas main menubar... and, as ever, there is only one profile listed - 'default', which is what I always use.
Even in the \Documents and Settings\..\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\ folder there is only one profile folder named 'default'.
Weird aswell though, everything else associated with that profile (my mail settings, browser options, irc etc) are all fully intact.... only the bookmarks were wiped.

Fudged tbh

Ah, ok, thought you were talking about Firefox, given the thread title.
I must not have read your post properly.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Well since Firefox and Mozilla are such close siblings (under the bonnet at least), I don't feel too much of a monkey posting in a firefox thread

Cabaal

I've gone from Netscape 4.x, Mozilla, Sunbird, Firefox etc and I've not lost my bookmarks file yet
Oh well guess I'm a lucky one