Keywords for my bookmarks have disappeared.

I set up a large number of keywords for my most-used bookmarks. These have all spontaneously disappeared.
The bookmarks themselves are all intact, it's just the keyword field that is missing.
I was using both keyword=string and keyword=string%s keywords, in case that makes any difference.

refer to
* [[Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer]]
* [[Recover lost or missing Bookmarks]]
* [[Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles]]

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What I would say is that if you have any bookmarks at all at present that you make a manual backup of them, and then continue to make manual backups as any recovery efforts proceed.
* see [[Backing up and restoring bookmarks]]
There is a possibility that you had corrupt files, and may then have inadvertently overwritten any files that may have contained bookmarks. It is a good idea to make manual backups, for cases where the auto backups do not. work as expected.
If you have already followed the instructions carefully about [[lost bookmarks]] and without resolving the situation, there may not be much you can do about your personal bookmarks. If they are important and you are willing to try there may be a possibility using file recovery software, &/or sqlite editors that something could be salvaged, but not something I can advise on, I am not currently a Mac user.
The default bookmarks should be fairly easy to restore. You can probably also start the bookmarks working again. Trying the simplest options first:
# work from [safe mode]
#* at this stage when you see the first dialogue window with options do not make changes, press the continue button
# use the customise / customize option from the toolbars and '''reset defaults'''
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# if that has failed to resolve the problem go back to safe mode as in step 1 but this time use reset toolbars and controls.
By now you should have the default bookmarks back and maybe the bookmarks work and will save new bookmarks, try it whilst still in safe mode, before going back to try in ordinary mode. If it works in safe mode but not in ordinary mode you probably have some add-on managing to cause problems
If you still have problems and bookmarks will not save see [[bookmarks not saved]] that probably indicates corrupt places.sqlite &/or localstore.rdf the linked article explains how to find and delete them.

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Try a reset:
Hold the Sleep and Home button down for about 10 second until you see the Apple logo.

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Hi.
After a few weeks of working off of a portable hard drive, recently I hooked my laptop back up to my large external drive, where most of my video resides, and found that all my keywords and compound clips have disappeared from their Event. (I have only one event on that drive.)
This is DISTRESSING. I had originally imported a huge amount of clips into FCP X and spent days entering keywords. I also took a lot of time importing sequences from FCP 7 into FCP X as compound clips. These were important building blocks. Now they are all gone.
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Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy it to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-bookmarks-and-history-will-not-be-functional
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Lost+Bookmarks
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

Bookmarks have disappeared

When I opened Safari this morning all my bookmarks had disappeared. The only ones showing were the "classic" ones that are pre-entered by Apple (Apple, yahoo, google maps... etc).
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Any idea where my bookmarks have gone??? And how I can get the back?
History is still showing.
Also when a do a search simply on "bookmarks" I get a file in the user library (-caches - metadata - safari - bookmarks) which contains a list of hundreds of this :
00A2B00C-0F3D-41C5-82BC-0041930AB4C3.webbookmark
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Can anyone give me a hint of what is happening and what I should do?
How much free space is left on your hard drive? If you don't have at least 15% of your total drive capacity free at all times, things can spontaneously disappear, including email. If you don't have that much now, do some housecleaning and get rid of things you don't need or archive them somewhere else.
Can that explain anything? Should I delete them?
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My bookmarks have disappeared and the 'restore' process is not working - Firefox is 'unable to load the file' I selected as the backup file.

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*Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

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