God knows why/how but my father lost all his bookmarks he’d saved over the years on Firefox and I was given the task to get them back. An hour and a lot of reading later, I managed to get them all back. If you’ve lost your Firefox bookmarks, here’s how you recover them.
How do I recover my lost bookmarks in Firefox?
The basic fact behind this bookmark recovery thing is that Firefox makes backup of your bookmarks everyday when you create them and its very easy to recover them back and get you working again. So here’s how you recover your bookmarks.
- Locate your Firefox folder. If you are unable to locate the folder then go to Start>Run and copy the following command and paste it in the window that pops up and then press OK: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
- Now in the window that opens up locate the folder bookmarkbackups.
- Open the folder and you will see a bunch of html files with name, bookmarks and a date. These are the bookmarks that have been backup for the last five days by Firefox.
- Select a file that is a day or two older than todays date. For example today’s date is 2010-01-11 then select bookmarks-2010-01-10.html i.e a file which is a day older. Copy this file and rename it to bookmarks.html
- Put this file in the main Default profile Directory and replace the old file, i.e %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\stzbt87m.default\
- Start Firefox and you’ll get all your lost bookmarks back.
This is how I got my father’s bookmarks back. If you’ve lost your Firefox bookmarks, I hope you get them back too.
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