Help! FF deleted all my bookmarks

[Kevin1211]

i dont know why this occurred, but when i booted up my computer this morning, everything was resetted in firefox... all my bookmarks are gone... how can i get them back??

-thanks in advance

 

[HN]

Look around here: C:\Documents and Settings\*USERNAME*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*PROFILENAME*
look for "bookmarks.html" or "bookmarks.bak"

 

[apoppin]

same here . . . it happened during a failed update.

UNrecoverable . . . they were deleted from ALL locations.

good thing i had 99+% of them in IE [and the rest in History]
(NOW i back them up daily])

 

[Kevin1211]

HN, i couldnt find that file... looked everywhere...


well, there goes my 50+ bookmarks.. .... lessoned learned: SAVE BOOK MARKS... heh

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
HN, i couldnt find that file... looked everywhere...


well, there goes my 50+ bookmarks.. .... lessoned learned: SAVE BOOK MARKS... heh

is "History" Ctrl+H still there?

i got most of my missing bookmarks from REvisiting the sites from the last 2 weeks
:thumbsup:

 

[Zero Plasma]

I had a problem like that, but my bookmarks were still ok. All of my settings, passwords that were stored, and extension options got reset though. I thought mine was from the power going out while FF was open? (It was right after this that I noticed.)

 

[Kevin1211]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
HN, i couldnt find that file... looked everywhere...


well, there goes my 50+ bookmarks.. .... lessoned learned: SAVE BOOK MARKS... heh

is "History" Ctrl+H still there?

i got most of my missing bookmarks from REvisiting the sites from the last 2 weeks
:thumbsup:

EVERYTHING got erased... .... bookmarks, history, cookies, stored passwords, etc etc...

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
i dont know why this occurred, but when i booted up my computer this morning, everything was resetted in firefox... all my bookmarks are gone... how can i get them back??

-thanks in advance

What version of Firefox? This happened to me once too - think it was v1.02.

 

[GhettoFob]

this happened to me once too, I forget the exact version it was somewhere after 1.01 though

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: Kevin1211

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
HN, i couldnt find that file... looked everywhere...


well, there goes my 50+ bookmarks.. .... lessoned learned: SAVE BOOK MARKS... heh

is "History" Ctrl+H still there?

i got most of my missing bookmarks from REvisiting the sites from the last 2 weeks
:thumbsup:

EVERYTHING got erased... .... bookmarks, history, cookies, stored passwords, etc etc...

What were you doing leading up to the erasure?

 

[Kevin1211]

Originally posted by: bersl2

Originally posted by: Kevin1211

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Kevin1211
HN, i couldnt find that file... looked everywhere...


well, there goes my 50+ bookmarks.. .... lessoned learned: SAVE BOOK MARKS... heh

is "History" Ctrl+H still there?

i got most of my missing bookmarks from REvisiting the sites from the last 2 weeks
:thumbsup:

EVERYTHING got erased... .... bookmarks, history, cookies, stored passwords, etc etc...

What were you doing leading up to the erasure?

i think it may have happened when i was gaming and noticed some artifacting (due to this hot summer-like weather ), so i had to reset my computer.... i may have had FF on..


btw, i hvae 1.04

 

[HN]

damn. when you restarted and launched firefox, did it give you the dialog box to create a new profile?

Do you now have several profiles in this path? C:\Documents and Settings\*USERNAME*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

 

[jadinolf]

For what it's worth, I use Mozilla and I have set up a folder for some of the critical files (C:\jadinolf Mozilla and copy them there every now and then.

It could save you some day.

 

[BlueWeasel]

This happened to me last night....bookmarks deleted, extension settings reset, and it prompts me for a new profile. I've not tried to fix the problem, but I've got a bookmark backup from about a month ago with 90% so I can always go back to that if necessary.