My bookmarks have disappeared and the 'restore' process is not working - Firefox is 'unable to load the file' I selected as the backup file.

Yesterday, I was unable to access Firefox at all and had to use another browser. Today, Firefox is back but all my bookmarks seem to have disappeared. I followed the procedure for restoring bookmarks from a backup file. I selected the file to back up from, but I received an error message saying that Firefox could not access that file.

Did you install the Places Maintenance extension and checked the places.sqlite database file?
*Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

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