firefox bookmarks

monkeyfish9272

hello can someone help me please my daughter messed with our computer and now all my firefox bookmarks have dissapeared.does anyone know how to get them back as i had over one years worth of links in there that i cant remember


thanks

sheraz2

hi if its windows xp do a system restore should bring them back

monkeyfish9272

No Sorry System Restore Doesnt Work Everytime I Do It.it Comes Up Cannot Restore To This Date

sra

Try this:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=979932&highlight=firefox%2A#post979932

If a new profile has been created, you can switch back to the 'default' one from the profile manager

monkeyfish9272

that just brought up homepage.thankyou for trying.just needed all my old bookmarks back

sra

monkeyfish9272 wrote:

that just brought up homepage.thankyou for trying.just needed all my old bookmarks back

The profile manager won't load unless firefox is completely shut down first. If you try it with Firefox running, it just creates a new firefox page

If you think firefox is completely shut down and that method still brings up the homepage, a Firefox process must be running in the background - Try restarting your computer then loading the Profile Manager

John_Gray

It's no help to you just now, but I would suggest you get the Firefox extension called Bookmark Backup

It will optionally also back up all the other Firefox profile-type files, and it does this each time you close down Firefox, to a "day of the week" directory, so you always have Firefox config-file backups for the last seven days.

When I had to restore my hard disk from backups, I discovered just how much hard work it was to recreate my Bookmarks (over 140 of them), because those were the one thing I hadn't backed up. It took weeks to set them up again from a faint memory of what they used to be. I then heard about Bookmark Backup, and have never lost a moment's sleep since!

John

drlight_2

I found a backup files of my bookmarks a while ago when the same thing happend to me, I don't really know much about firefox but all the settings & bookmarks are in the same folder

I don't have the backup extension but there are 8 files, it looks like firefox uses "bookmarks.html" there are 8 others called bookmarks.html_bak1 ..8

rename the most recent one to bookmarks.html, you can open them in internet explorer to check them.

odowdchr

Posted this a few days ago. Mozbackup backs up your bookmarks and will also save all your cookies and settings as well (if you want), so for instance, if you use Mozilla Password Manager for remembering the login details for sites such as this....it will restore everything to a new/formatted/upgraded PC.
It also works for Thunderbird and saves email settings, emails, newsgroups etc...

I take a backup once a week and put it on a USB stick, just in case my PC suddenly goes kaput


ps. I don't recommend using the Mozilla Password manager for banking or card details because it doesn't encrypt the information on your hard drive.