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    Just lost all my Firefox book marks, again

    Is there a way to recover them? I've got dial-up and when I disconected last, my whoel computer shut down and restarted, loosing all my Firefox book marks. This is the second time. Last was little over a year ago. IE-8 seems to be doing fine.
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    #2
    Never had that happen. I would backup all of your bookmarks and then next time you can just load them.

    Go to Bookmarks | Organize Bookmarks... Click the drop down for Import and Backup and see if you can restore them.
    Jeff Young

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      #3
      Texas Grown; There is a plugin for Firefox called : Xmarks. What it does is backs up your book marks to the internet and you can use them from any computer that has firefox and that plugin. Give it a shot.

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        #4
        Mike, I think there is sumpin rong wit your puter, Dude.

        My DSL drops almost daily and I've restarted countless times ('puter and modem) and never lost bookmarks. I'm running firefox 3.0.01 now but it updates automatically.

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          #5
          firefox should have a restore function. if that dosent work, like cheez said you may have a computer problem.

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            #6
            Jeff, I have no improt or export for "Manage Bookmarks". My Firefox bookmarks are different form my IE B-marks

            Cshall, Doing a "serch" for Xmarks now. I manually scaned the Firefox program files and didn't see it.

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              #7
              Check this out:
              Where does Firefox put your bookmarks? - Answers
              http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_are_Firefox_bookmarks_stored
              FireFox BookmarksThe Mozilla Firefox browser stores the bookmarks in the Bookmarks tab, which is available on the menu bar on the top of the page.The answer posted above goes for only inside the browser. The question might have been asked with an intention of saving (backing up) and restoring the bookmarks during uninstallation/upgrade of your browser. No matter what it has to save the information into the file system, but the filetype may vary from application to application. As such, Firefox deals everything with bookmarks.HTML file! and inside "bookmarkbackups" folder.This link explains everything very neatly. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks.Recovering Your Firefox BookmarksThis is documented elsewhere, but perhaps comes across as too nerdy for some. If you're using Windows XP, recovering from a crash or whatever, and find that your Firefox bookmarks (and bookmarklets and bookmark toolbar) 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.- 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 relaunch it. Your old bookmarks should be restored.An easier way is to find file as above in ....\profiles (bookmarks-2009-04-27.json) from old disk and copy back to same location on new disk, go to browser bookmarks then organise bookmarks (ctrl shift b) import and backup then restore your file will be there, restore this and confirm (this will overwrite existing ones) original bookmarks returned

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                #8
                Seems that the backup bookmarkhtml file was cleared as was the history file. Once every year or three aint so bad, except I had a lot of bookmarks on this browser .

                Cheeze, it'd prob help if I updated the browser

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                  #9
                  Yeah browsers are a good thing to turn on the "Automatically Check for Updates" feature on. If you're a person who really keeps a lot of bookmarks, the suggestion above to back them up is right on. In fact back them up to a thumb drive along with your address book and any other info that you would need pretty immediate access to if your computer or hard drive died.

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                    #10
                    I pretty much keep everythng backed up on a ex-drive now except Firefox. Just figures .

                    I had a Maxtor internal fail/broke one time and lost a bunch of info and files. My bro tried to hook it up exteranlly but still couldn't retrieve anything. That was in 2003.

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