Save Your Firefox Bookmarks
If you’re using Windows XP...
recovering from a crash or whatever,if your Firefox bookmarks have disappeared, here’s what to do:
C:\Documents and Settings\GreatBA\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2lly819q.default\bookmarkbackups
recovering from a crash or whatever,if your Firefox bookmarks have disappeared, here’s what to do:
- Find your profile in c:\Documents and Settings\[your XP user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
- There should be a subfolder there called bookmarkbackups. Find the most recent bookmarks html file in there (usually with a date after the ‘bookmarks’ bit.
C:\Documents and Settings\GreatBA\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2lly819q.default\bookmarkbackups
- Copy it to somewhere safe and rename the existing one bookmarks.html.
- Copy it to the default profiles folder (up one level from the bookmarkbackups folder, deleting the existing bookmarks.html file.
- Close Firefox if it’s running and launch it. Your old bookmarks should be restored.
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