Recovering lost bookmarks

I recently logged in and opened Netscape to discover that all of my bookmarks had disappeared. After searching around with Spotlight for anything with the name "bookmark," I find myself unable to find any file that contains any reference to any of the bookmarks I once had. Can anyone enlighten me as to where my bookmarks might have gone, if it's possible for a person to "accidentally" delete them all with only a single keystroke or selection, or where a person might look if they wanted to recover them?

Absolutely nothing came up when you entered "Bookmark" into Spotlight? Safari's bookmark file, "Bookmarks.plist" should appear. Netscape's bookmarks should appear as Bookmarks.html with backups appending a number, such as Bookmarks-1.html. Preview's recent items list is kept in a file called "com.apple.Preview.bookmarks.plist". And if the word "Bookmarks" appears in any documents or help files, they should appear as well.
Netscape shares bookmarks with Mozilla and for me they are buried in the Mozilla folder in the Library folder on Finder's Home Page. In the mozilla folder will be a folder named "Profiles". In that folder will be a folder named "Default". In that folder will be a folder with letters and numbers in its name. In that folder is the Mozilla/Netscape file Bookmarks.html and the numbered backups as described above. If you do not have a Mozilla folder in your Library, look for a Netscape folder either in the Library or in the Application Support folder in your Library.
Let me know what you find.

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