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help, just switched my laptop on and lost all my bookmarks!! help

stolt
stolt Posts: 2,865 Forumite
turned my laptop off this morning and switched it back on this evening and for some reason it displayed disc checking which i let it do, and went in to mozilla and bookmarks are all gone.... help.... anyway of getting them back?
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  • malamute
    malamute Posts: 710 Forumite
    Same thing happened to me (i thought it was something i had done) 2 months ago unless you have a backup of your system then I'm afraid you have probably lost them all permanently.
    I tried various undelete programmes and also using the restore function but to no avail .
    To this date i don't know what caused it so a repetition could occur again which is worrying.
    I still had about 75% of my bookmarks as i had imported them from Explorer so i did't suffer a total loss.
  • b33r
    b33r Posts: 905 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Is there anything in:

    C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\x.default\bookmarkbackups\

    If not then a file restorer may be able to find something, I don't know any off hand but I'm sure someone will....

    In future may I recommend the use of Google Browser Sync or Foxmarks. I obviously realise that is of no help to you now but something for the future, they store your bookmarks at a central server.
  • ioscorpio
    ioscorpio Posts: 2,364 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    The same thing happened to my bookmarks a few weeks ago
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