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Retrieving Firefox Bookmarks
Name: punistation Date: October 19, 2005 at 16:36:57 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: 1GHz/512
Comment:
My OS has been corrupted and I've lost access to several .exe programs, including Firefox. However, some data files still remain in the folders.
Does anyone know if I can manually go into Explorer and retreive my Bookmarks? And would reinstalling Firefox overwrite them?
Name: blackbill Date: October 19, 2005 at 17:02:38 Pacific
Reply:
Yes.
The bookmarks file is called bookmarks.html.
Retrieve this file and locate it in a temp folder somewhere. Reinstall firefox as you normally would, then go into your firefox folder (found in c:\documents and settings\aplication data\mozila\firefox) and delete the existing bookmarks.html. Copy your html folder into the firefox folder.
(there may be a subfolder within the firefox folder that contains the file in question.)
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Response Number 2
Name: Justme Date: October 19, 2005 at 21:09:32 Pacific
Reply:
As long as the "chrome folder" is still there it will have all your settings including your bookmarks.
Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.
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Response Number 3
Name: Justme Date: October 19, 2005 at 21:11:49 Pacific
Reply:
And yes should you reinstall Firefox, it will automatically pick up the chrome file along with the settings.
Lessons learnt the hard way are not easily forgotten.
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