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663357 2008-04-28 08:59:00 Hi all.
My laptop has a dodgy battery, it just cut out and the laptop went dead. I've just restarted it, it did its scan and everything seams ok..... almost. (XPpro, Mozilla) When I ran Mozilla if started fine but the bookmarks were gone, both the bookmark tabs and main listing. Todays history is still there.

Any ideas??

Thanks
4Lowie (10869)
663358 2008-04-28 09:13:00 Your Firefox profile may have been damaged.

Firefox makes a copy of your bookmarks automatically, keeps about 5 copies from memory, to loacte them do this -- Double click " My computer" on the desktop, up top, under the Tools/Folder options / View tab, select " show hidden files and Folders" Click OK. ( if you dont show the folders you wont locate the bookmarks.)

Next with my computer open, double click the C: drive, then follow this path / folders.

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\ApplicationData\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx .default. / BookmarkBackups

In there will be your backed up Bookmarks, copy the folder/bookmarks to another location.

To replace the profile ---Go to this page (support.mozilla.com)--- Cant be bothered writing it all out - Lazy eh! :lol:

Then import your backed up bookmarks from the folder you copied before. To do that, open Firefox, click bookmarks / Organize Bookmarks / then File/import bookmarks.
wainuitech (129)
663359 2008-04-28 10:24:00 Thank you. 4Lowie (10869)
663360 2008-04-28 10:25:00 You're welcome - hope it helped in same way. wainuitech (129)
663361 2008-04-28 13:47:00 There's also a Firefox extension called PlainOldFavorites which uses the IE favourites listing. If you're interested. annie (6010)
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