12-24-2006, 05:41 AM
Quote:Kp' date='Dec 23 2006, 07:35 AM' post='122650']
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.
I was an idiot and started editing the Bookmarks the second I saw there were folders missing. I'm sure if these "altered" bookmarks html saved, it will overwrite the old one :(. Nonetheless, I'll have a look see anyhow and see if I can make some sort of recovery. I can't even remember 1/2 the sites that went missing. Oh well, how important could they have been then?
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