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Old 11-08-2004, 11:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Lost all my bookmarks with upgrade to Firefox 0.10

I was sailing happily along with ver .09 or whatever it was. i saw that there was a new download. so i downloaded it. and proceeded to lose all my bookmarks. i probably had 200-300.

I posted in the mozillazine forums for help but talk about rude and unhelpful. No, i didnt make a backup of my bookmarks. didnt think about that. but i didnt expect to get clobbered by 1.0,

while over at the mozillazine forums, i read that a lot of people lost some or all of their bookmarks. Hopefully, those open source gurus can fix that problem.

so, all of you, BEFORE you upgrade, backup your bookmarks. you can find it if you do a search of your computer for bookmarks.html. i wish i knew this before i upgraded. Hindsight is 20/20.
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Old 11-08-2004, 12:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Wow, that bites. Sorry to hear it.

Are you totally out-of-luck? If you could PM me your username over on mozillazine I'll read what has gone on so far, and see if I can provide any additional help. (I checked mobo123, and didn't find it there.)
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Old 11-08-2004, 12:19 PM   #3 (permalink)
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i nearly lost my backups when i upgraded from the original versions to v9, but luckily i had the folder synching with my laptop, so managed to retrieve them...cheers for the advice.
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Old 11-08-2004, 12:29 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Remember, everything pre-1.0 is not really an "end-user" release (and keep in mind, that includes going from 0.9 or 0.10 to 1.0 - campatibility may be broken). Precautions such as backing up your bookmarks need to be taken.

Sorry to hear about what happened. I lost my bookmarks once back around v0.6 - it's not fun.
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Old 11-08-2004, 01:44 PM   #5 (permalink)
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redlemon, i was just a guest at the forums. i havent registered there.
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Old 11-08-2004, 01:52 PM   #6 (permalink)
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OK, then, do you want us to try to help you additionally, or have you written your bookmarks off?
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Old 11-08-2004, 03:07 PM   #7 (permalink)
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not sure what else i can do. I went through every single file, hidden and not, this past weekend. All the bookmarks are gone. Can you come over and fix my screwup?
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Old 11-08-2004, 05:19 PM   #8 (permalink)
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it all should be saved in a folder of data....and that should NOT be overwritten by updates.... I'm not sure where it is in windows though (linux it's .pheonix...wait..now it's .firefox/)

ok...just looked it up for windows C:\Documents and settings\your account\Application data (hidden)\firefox
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Old 11-08-2004, 06:18 PM   #9 (permalink)
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On my Windows system it is %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox.
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Old 11-08-2004, 06:20 PM   #10 (permalink)
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it all should be saved in a folder of data....and that should NOT be overwritten by updates.... I'm not sure where it is in windows though (linux it's .pheonix...wait..now it's .firefox/)

ok...just looked it up for windows C:\Documents and settings\your account\Application data (hidden)\firefox
I went through every possible folder and the only bookmarks i found were generic mozilla ones. The bottom line is that i think i'm fucked.


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Old 11-08-2004, 06:24 PM   #11 (permalink)
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if you run windows xp, have you tried system restore? i always turn that feature off but maybe you dont. might be worth trying if you really have important bookmarks
 
Old 11-08-2004, 10:50 PM   #12 (permalink)
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i tried system restore 4 times. each time failed. I think this is firefox's way of telling me i screwed up.
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Old 11-09-2004, 06:21 AM   #13 (permalink)
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I went through every possible folder and the only bookmarks i found were generic mozilla ones. The bottom line is that i think i'm fucked.
Are you saying that you looked for it manually? A search would be much better. The file will be named bookmarks.html, no matter what version or what platform, and the file will have a modified date of whenever you last ran the 0.9 build (so, probably, last week). They kept moving the destination folder and name of the folder through the different builds, so I don't remember which combination the 0.9 build had.
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Old 11-09-2004, 03:19 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Red Lemon, I had already done a search for that exact file. and i got squat. i'v e given up.
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Old 11-09-2004, 06:25 PM   #15 (permalink)
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so you are saying their is nothing in the
C:\Documents and settings\your account\Application data (hidden)\firefox
folder.....odd...I know you gave up but I'm wondering to identify the bug and submit/patch
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