firefox lost all my bookmarks
 

I rebooted my computer and all of a sudden, firefox lost all my bookmarks and the list for addblock. this happens to me about twice a year. anyone has an idea where that comes from?


(happened back in time with the netscape, too - there it lost all my bookmarks AND emails as well.)

Don't worry, they're not lost, as FF makes several backups. You'll find a recovery procedure in the FF documentation.

Even if you load FF and tell it to forget everything, you can still get to the settings as long as too many boot processes have overlaid the backups with the new (blank) ones.

I've used firefox for years, and never had your lost bookmarks experience--but one suggestion, FWIW--I use the Foxmarks bookmark synchronizer add-in to keep my bookmarks in sync across multiple machines. Apart from just being a slick add-in for its intended purpose, it strikes me that it may take care of issues like this to some extent, insofar as it essentially uploads a backup of your bookmarks to a server somewhere, which is then downloaded to your PC(s).

Mozbackup is also a nice tool.

Google Browser Sync is also quite lovely :cool:

Look in Docs&Settings\name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles\****\bookmarkbackups - there should be plenty or previous versions to copy back to the next higher level in the directory

As is Foxmarks
http://my.foxmarks.com/

thanks folks :)

problem not resolved (will probably happen again) but I found the old bookmarks and restored them

The last time this happened to me was long before FF 1.0. I thought this issue had been fixed.

Two things:

1. To solve your problem: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks
2. I agree that foxmarks is a very neat tool, however I'm not sure yet what my feelings are about having my bookmarks stored on some random website. To be fair, they give you the option of using your own server but I have yet to test it.

Fair point--I'm normally averse to exposing personal data too--but depending on how personal your bookmarks are, the convenience/privacy tradeoff may be worth it for many. Definitely so for me (and that apart from avoiding the lost bookmarks headache)--though my bookmarks may be less interesting/personal than yours...;)

I second that. And another good use of Foxmarks is that you can access your bookmarks from anywhere, any computer online by logging into the foxmarks site.