OT: help with saving Mozilla bookmark file

Oh how I wish I could help. I just went through a much too similar experience a few weeks ago and have nearly the same complaint. I've got the major part of my address book back but lost a slew of stuff from my bookmarks.

My backup didn't do it for me either. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to invest in an external hard drive to attempt to avoid such a situation in the future.

In any case hugs to you and !@##$%%^ to your computer.

Lucille

hmmmmmmmm... a search for bookmark.html or bookmarks.html didn't give me what I wanted even though I'm 99.9999% sure it's done so in the past. I found my errant file using the process I got from Mozilla's knowledge base:

I'm more awake now ;-) On Windows Vista, an advanced search set to look everywhere with the box for hidden files, non-indexed locations checked found my bookmark file.

This is where my Firefox profile is stored on my computer:

C:\Documents and Settings\[my name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[combination of letters and numbers].default

Among the files there, you should see bookmarks.bak (apparently this is generated automatically and periodically overwritten) as well as bookmarks.html; I'm not sure if you can simply copy these and add them to your new profile or not, but it might not hurt to try.

HTH!

I'm thinking it might also be easy to find using Start/Search/All files and folders/Mozilla/Firefox, but am not sure. Just suggesting that because I usually do not let those things load to programme files where they want, but rather where I want, usually on the other HD, not the main one which has the OS on it.

Have you looked here: ?

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com WIP: Poppies (Art-Stitch), two knitted tops, Oriental Butterfly Most recently Finished: Floral Sampler, Insect Sampler

That's a good suggestion; as you point out, not everyone uses the default installation for software, and for good reason. I've been lucky in that I haven't run into problems, but from what I've seen over the years, I'm more an exception than anything else in that regard!

Replying to my own initial post - I found that under the Bookmarks toolbar menu on Firefox, under Organize Bookmarks, you can select a "backup and restore". This will allow you to save a file of your bookmarks to a specific location on your PC. I've done this and it should be copied by my regular backup now....but I'm also saving it onto other media just to be sure.

thanks for the help and sympathy!

MelissaD

It will depend on how Melissa handles hers. Yes, you've been lucky, since I am not, also I am so cynical, I do it the other way! It's whatever works for one. I have also made full DVD rescues, which are at my daughters place, how's that for pessimist ?

Well, given that you *have* had problems with computers in the past, I'd call it prudent more than anything else; learning from experience doesn't make you a pessimist!

Sometimes I smile when I think of my grandmother grabbing this doctors bag (alligator) full of jewelry and deeds etc. when the siren went and we all had to go to the shelter.

If the fire alarm went here, my first thought would be "grab the laptop" - times change I guess lol

Can't help you with finding it, but once you do ... e-mail it to yourself.

One of my experts suggested setting up a gmail account, and regularly e-mailing important files to myself.

big snip>

DH bought a program called "Virtual PC" that lets him run non-Mac PC programs on our iMac.

I was hoping that DH would go to bed before I did so I could fill the stockings tonight but he just put on "The Breakfast Club" and I can hardly keep my eyes open. Guess I'll have to do it if I wake up in the middle of the night or if I wake up before he does. It's only things like trail mix and M&Ms but at least it's something. It's not what you get, it's knowing that someone is thinking of you. :-))))))))

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. Happy "UnChristmas" to those who just celebrate waking up in the morning in a warm (or cool) :-) house with a roof over their head. :-)

Liz from Humbug

Well only if they contain absolutely nothing, gmail is not secure in any way ! OK as a place to file digital pictures I suppose, but nothing more important than that. Even then, I wouldn't put pics of children there.

But the problem is - at that time (actually long before that) I went with Windoze for that reason and once there was unlikely to convert.

Maybe not, although I have always given my ex-machines away to grandchildren etc because I changed to something else rather than that they stopped functioning. At no time did I think of switching because they lost me way back when. They are significantly higher priced here, quite a difference.

Just recently Cheryl couldn't open a file I sent and I have had the same thing happen with a friend in Tennessee. He has also sent me things that must be opened with Quicktime and that is something I am never, ever, putting on a computer again. Talk about a take over programme.

Anyway, it's an old argument and rather like abortion, people fall into two camps and will never switch, one way or the other !