Bookmarks Are Now Ghosts? Help?
Hi Macophiles. This is my first post and I gotta problem. All of my Safari Bookmarks are now showing as "files" accompanied by a location string instead of a URL. What did I do? Does it have something to do with my Bookmarks.plist? Any help you may be able to provide would be much appreciated.
iMac G5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.3) 250 GB LaCie USB 2.0 partitioned ext. HD
Don't know why it happened, but I was able to replace and reconstitute my bookmarks from an HTML transfer file of them I kept in my Documents folder.
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Thank you!Hello,
Firefox automatically creates backups of your bookmarks, which can be helpful if your bookmarks are lost or missing. To recover them, follow the instructions below.
#Use <u>one</u> of these methods to open the Bookmarks Library window:
#*Click the ''[[Display the Firefox button menu instead of the menu toolbar|Firefox button]]'' to open the menu and click on ''Bookmarks''.
#*Click the ''Bookmarks'' menu and click on ''Show All Bookmarks''.
# At the top of the Library window, click the "Import and Backup" menu and select Restore.
# Click the date of the bookmark backup you want to recover.
# In the new window that appears, click OK.
# Your bookmarks from the selected date should now be restored.
For more information, see the [[Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer]] article. For other solutions, see the [[Recover lost or missing Bookmarks]] article.
See also: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data]
Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!
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Hope this may help someone in the future.
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