Lost Firefox Bookmarks

[BrOkEn ArRoW_29]

My computer just restarted itself for no reason and now I have lost a lot of my bookmarks. Somebody please help me with this because I have so many and don't want to lose them. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Agozer]

There is no way to get them back unless you made a backup. Fatal Rose had the same problem a while back.

 

Lesson: Always backup your bookmarks.

[BrOkEn ArRoW_29]

Please, you can't be serious!?! There has got to be some way.

[Weirdy]

look in the hidden application folders. There should be a html file that contains all your book marks somewhere

[Agozer]

look in the hidden application folders. There should be a html file that contains all your book marks somewhere

Is there? Are you absolutely sure?

[Weirdy]

They should be there. This same thing happend to me in June. I searched all over the "documents and settings" folder

 

should be in "directoryname:\Documents and Settings\<ownername>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\vvdy28if.default"

Edited November 6, 2005 by Weirdy

[BrOkEn ArRoW_29]

I looked in there. Everything is all there but randomly all my bookmarks from the letter N on got deleted.

[Agozer]

Seems that the deleting is sometimes random and sometimes it wipes everything.

[BrOkEn ArRoW_29]

So there is absolutely no way of getting my bookmarks back?

[Wizard]

Word of advice, always back up your bookmarks (and anything related to FireFox in general) regularly. This happened to me MORE then once.

[Agozer]

So there is absolutely no way of getting my bookmarks back?

No. What's gone is gone.

[028]

dude that blows, it's happened to me quite a few times, i know this isn't helpful but i started using http://del.icio.us/ for all my bookmarks. with firefox and rss feeds i keep all my bookmarks sync across every computer i touch. only down side is some times the site gets a little heavy and things slow to a crawl, this means sometimes you don't get to post new bookmarks but i haven't had a problem with the bookmarks themselves. hope you can find a way to recover your bookmarks g

[BrOkEn ArRoW_29]

I refuse to believe that my bookmarks are gone. There has to be some way.

[ken_cinder]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

 

More specifically, within seconds of looking in the 2nd sticky there......you can find http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

[Alucard1475]

You should export all of your bookmarks now and then. It's what I do almost every fortnight.

 

Just take a good look around the firefox folders and everything that relates to firefox. It should be somewhere.

 

ps: Not related but it's also a good thing to export all of your registry which ends up of beeing around 20MB, depending on how much you have on your machine. You only need 3 clicks to f**k up your computer. Lesson learned.