After updating to firefox 5 all my bookmarks are lost, and I can not find an old places.sqlite file. What happened to my bookmarks?
I updated from Firefox 3 to Firefox 5 (Windows XP), and all my bookmarks are lost. Maybe I should have thought of making a backup but I did not think of this and previously after an update I could find them again. Now I can not find my bookmarks anywhere, all files in my profile have a date and time from the new installation. Is there any chance of finding my bookmarks somewhere else on my computer? If so, where are they and how can I restore them?
Thanks for the answer. I read the article but it seems that the solution to my problem is not in there. Apart from the lost bookmarks Firefox is working fine, also I can make new bookmarks and delete them without problems. When I restart Firefox I don't loose them.
Apparently after installing Firefox 5 everything of Firefox 3 was deleted including my profile. The only bookmark .json file I have is from the new installation, which means it does not contain any of my old bookmarks. It now has today's date and time.
In my profile I have three 'places' files, now all with today's date and time:
- places.sqlite (10240 kb)
- places.sqlite-shm (32 kb)
- places.sqlite-wal (865 kb)
But even though places.sqlite is large, it apparently does not contain my old information. Or could it? Then how to get to it?
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A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_places-database-file
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox -
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Click Bookmarks, (drop-down menu) click Show All Bookmarks, (new menu) click Import & Backup, (drop-down menu) click Restore - instead of a list of dates it reads Choose File as only option, click Choose File = takes me to desktop icons.THANK YOU, JOHN99! I could not get the backup to work right, but you took me to a page that showed how to copy bookmarks from my other (uncorrupted) computer, so I did that and it works perfectly now. Directly & indirectly, you solved it for me. THANKS AGAIN!
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I cannot recover 4 years' worth of organized bookmarks... they were there 2 days ago. When I click "import/backup" then "restore" it just says "choose a file" and goes to desktop. It doesn't give me a list of dates. Please help...? (I just installed Kaspersky and I think it may have put me into "safe browsing" - their words not mine - if that means anything to you.) Again, here's what I'm doing:
Click Bookmarks, (drop-down menu) click Show All Bookmarks, (new menu) click Import & Backup, (drop-down menu) click Restore - instead of a list of dates it reads Choose File as only option, click Choose File = takes me to desktop icons.
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