Mozilla - delete and reinstall - how to save bookmarks?

derrick

Donnie wrote: »

Why don't you just save the profile??? Then when you need to reinstall Firefox, you just overwite the profile.

You can save the folder anywhere. USB stick, CD...what are you thinking?

OK I am not that techie, but this job is supposed to be so simple even I can do it, but it is proving not to be so! What do you mean by "just save the profile"

I do not want to uninstall FF!

It was, (and I believe still), possible to do what I intend, i.e. save to desktop!

People appear to have done it.
It gives the option to do so.
Yet it won't do so in HTML!! WHY NOT?

Donnie

If you just follow the instructions to which I have linked, it is easy. Just tried it myself.

You can save the whole profile, copy the bookmarmarks in HTML.

Just follow my link instructions and ignore all else.

If you need more help, just give me more details. OS for example.

bat999

bat999 wrote: »

Hi
In my link it shows a window with the 'Save in...' box.
But if you can't figure out where it's gone then do a file search on your PC for *.html

Have you done this yet?

derrick

bat999 wrote: »

Have you done this yet?

Am in the process, have been searching for about 20 minutes and all it has found up to now is a file from 10 months ago!

derrick

Donnie wrote: »

If you just follow the instructions to which I have linked, it is easy. Just tried it myself.

You can save the whole profile, copy the bookmarmarks in HTML.

Just follow my link instructions and ignore all else.

If you need more help, just give me more details. OS for example.

I did try this, as per my post #19, "When I go to,"internal profile backup folder:" it just gives me a list of folders,(just the headings with no separate bookmarks), and as such there is nothing for me to click on to open a bookmark page, which I could do on previous back ups using V2."

My OS is Windows XP.


This should be a very simple task as per the "organise bookmarks" button!

Donnie

So, what do you see when you navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Copy and paste it into Windows Explorer.

derrick

Donnie wrote: »

So, what do you see when you navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Copy and paste it into Windows Explorer.

Sorry, could not load Explorer, then the computer froze!

"cannot find file"

Same message in FF.

Donnie

derrick wrote: »

Sorry, could not load Explorer, then the computer froze!

"cannot find file"

Same message in FF.

Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer or Firefox

Windows Explorer is what you get when you open 'My Documents' for example.

Donnie

How to see Hidden Files and Folders may be necessary, but we have no idea if you are able to follow instructions.
So difficult to know quite where it is that you are going wrong.

derrick

Sorry again, the computer wouldn't load anything, then froze then lost internet conn, had to do a restart

Donnie wrote: »

So, what do you see when you navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Copy and paste it into Windows Explorer.

Donnie wrote: »

Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer or Firefox

Windows Explorer is what you get when you open 'My Documents' for example.

So how do I copy into W E? there is nowhere to paste it?

Donnie wrote: »

How to see Hidden Files and Folders may be necessary, but we have no idea if you are able to follow instructions.
So difficult to know quite where it is that you are going wrong.

I am able to follow instructions as I have done up to now, don't forget I am not techie!

Going wrong is the fact that I should be able to copy these from the "organise bookmarks" very easily, but it does not want to do so, I should not have to be going all through the computer to do so! Why should I need to see "Hidden files and folders" for this operation?