My Firefox bookmarks disappeared or were deleted (most of them) after an automatic update to Firefox 3. To find a backup and recover the missing files, I did the following import / reinstall trick. (I use Windows XP). I hope it works for you, but don't come after me if it doesn't ;-) 1. Click
the Windows button, and select Run.... 2. Type in (or cut from here and paste in): %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then click ... Like this: 3. Windows Explorer opens a folder called “Profiles” containing... your profiles... of course. 4. Double-click the profile folder you wish to open –I only had one folder, but others apparently have several. Mine was named “xxxx.default” folder where “xxxx” stands for some random numbers, which I probably shouldn't print on the internet... maybe. Anyway, open that folder. 5. Then open “bookmarkbackups” There should be 5 Firefox files in there named “bookmarks” and with a date. e.g. bookmarks-2008-08-05 6. Open the oldest one. Hopefully you’ll see a page with all your old bookmarks listed on it. 7. Close that Firefox file, then save a copy of it to your desktop. 8. Open Firefox. Go to Bookmarks>Organize Bookmarks The “Bookmarks Manager” should open. 9. In “Bookmarks Manager” go to File>Import Chose “From File”. 10. Find the Firefox “bookmarks-2008-08-05” file on your desktop and double click on that. Voila! The bookmarks should be restored in Firefox now. You might have some double-ups which you can delete. If you still have problems, this link will take you straight to the support page where everybody is complaining about this problem. It’s a big pain, I know, so I hope this helps. Cheers! -Bram 日本語 : Mozilla Firefoxのブックマークが消えたえた ::これはこの問題を解決する方法をである *Screen shots courtesy of the Firefox knowledge base, although I used a different technique to fix it than they did.. |
