12-23-2006, 03:35 PM
Quote:Well, I wasn't the last person to use the computer, my wife was, and she used one of the link in one of the folders that was erased. She says she only clicked on this site and then logged off. She's pretty computer literate so I really don't think she may have done anything. Seems like it must have gotten corrupted somehow... To be safe, I ran malware, spyware, and anti-virus detectors the did a disk cleanup, defrag, and then checkdiskl; everything came up OK. Oh well. At least now I'll make backups of "that" html file:).
If you have not restarted Firefox since you noticed the problem (unlikely since you've done all these diagnostics, but maybe you'll be lucky), there may yet be hope. Mozilla family browsers automatically create 1 (yes, only one) backup of the bookmarks html file as bookmarks.bak in the same directory as bookmarks.html. You may be able to recover the lost bookmarks from that backup file.
There may also be a bookmarkbackups directory alongside those two files, with more copies. Depending on what happened, you may not be able to plug the backups in directly, but you can at least harvest the names and URLs from the backup files.