Firefox you son of a...

Dooom

Booted up Firefox a few minutes ago....and everything's gone. No bookmarks, nothing on my bookmarks toolbar etc. etc.

Is there anyway to get all that stuff back? Had some really important links in there

J-blk

Go to your system partition (most commonly C:/) and browse to:

C:/Document and Settings/J-blk/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles

There should be an odd named "Default" folder here and your bookmarks are here, in a "Bookmarks.html" file.

Substitute J-blk with whatever your user name is and remember that "Application Data" is a hidden folder. To show it, go to the Tools menu -> Folder Options -> View and select "Show hidden files and folders".

Of course, all of the above assumes you're on Windows XP...

Dooom

Hmm. Thanks for that, but I still have one little problem (most likely mine ). When I found out that all the links/bookmarks were gone, I added a few - just the ones I needed to use and then posted this up....but when I import the list from that HTML file, it just copies the ones I already have there (ala the ones I added that I needed...).

This my fault or can it still be rectified?

J-blk

Hmmm... not sure about that one.

When you only have one profile, that list holds the default config. When you created a new one, it must have overwritten it or something. Do you have a "Bookmarks.bak" file in there? It's the backup copy and it just might - and I say might, this is new to me as well - be unaltered.

Dooom

Yep the .bak file's in there. Any hints as to what I should do with it? Probably make a backup first

/Edit: Nah just checked it with Notepad, all the bookmarks I have in there are the ones I currently have. No sign of all the ones I lost. I even imported the few I had in IE but the majority are still gone

scorpy

this used to happen to me quite a lot. luckily I had a(rather old but better than nothing) backup the first time, but after that I found an extension called 'bookmark backup' that backs up your bookmarks every day. so far as I know there's no way to get bookmarks back without using this or backing them up yourself, so it seems like your old list is gone...

aaf

scorpy wrote:

this used to happen to me quite a lot. luckily I had a(rather old but better than nothing) backup the first time, but after that I found an extension called 'bookmark backup' that backs up your bookmarks every day. so far as I know there's no way to get bookmarks back without using this or backing them up yourself, so it seems like your old list is gone...

Bookmark Backup

TJM

If you have google desktop installed you may be in luck. It maintains cached versions of files even after the originals are deleted / changed. Search for a bookmark to find the file.

(And if you don't have google desktop, you really should! )