Favorites loaded from PC were fine, now dead links?

Hello, I am a fairly new Mac user and I have a problem.
All my Favorites that I transferred over from my PC were immediately changed to Safari Bookmarks when they were loaded onto my Mac several months ago. But, some time recently they have all become dead links with plain white folder icons instead of the Safari icon, and obviously they don't work. I don't know if this happened with a recent update to Safari, but if so, why? and what can I do to get them converted back to Safari Bookmarks? I have a very long list that I don't want to lose.
Thanks for any help you can provide!

TracyMac67 wrote:
Hello, I am a fairly new Mac user and I have a problem.
All my Favorites that I transferred over from my PC were immediately changed to Safari Bookmarks when they were loaded onto my Mac several months ago. But, some time recently they have all become dead links with plain white folder icons instead of the Safari icon, and obviously they don't work. I don't know if this happened with a recent update to Safari, but if so, why? and what can I do to get them converted back to Safari Bookmarks? I have a very long list that I don't want to lose.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
If you are running TM, you can retrieve the original ones from there.
The folder is here:
~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/Bookmarks
where ~ is your home directory.

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