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. |
11-08-2004, 12:17 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Location: New England
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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.) |
11-08-2004, 12:19 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Location: London...no longer a student
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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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11-08-2004, 12:29 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: Chicago
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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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11-08-2004, 05:19 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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Location: inside my own mind
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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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11-08-2004, 06:20 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
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Bookmarks Bookmarks Toolbar Folder Add bookmarks to this folder to see them displayed on the Bookmarks Toolbar Getting Started Latest Headlines Quick Searches Handy searches that can be performed in the addressbar Google Quicksearch Type "google <search terms>" in the location bar to perform a Google search Dictionary.com Quicksearch Type "dict <word>" in the location bar to perform a dictionary look-up Stock Symbol Quicksearch Type "quote <symbol>" in the location bar to perform a stock symbol look-up Wikipedia Quicksearch Type "wp <something>" in the location bar to look up something in Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. Urban Dictionary Type "slang <word>" in the location bar to look up something in the people's slang dictionary Firefox Crew Picks Google News Bartleby Feedster Lonely Planet Craig's List The Onion Wired News Wikipedia Blogger Internet Movie Archive Amnesty International Boing Boing Homestarrunner Pitchfork Media Thefacebook Firefox and Mozilla Links Firefox Start Page Firefox Home Themes and Extensions The Mozilla web site MozillaZine Mozilla Store Get Involved - Help spread Firefox! |
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11-09-2004, 06:21 AM | #13 (permalink) | |
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11-09-2004, 06:25 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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Location: inside my own mind
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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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