Safari Bookmarks All Gone

I just rebooted my G4 laptop cause it was acting slow. I have lost all my bookmarks in Sarari. I have a back up at home but I am traveling. Is there some place to look that I am not finding by searching for Bookmarks?
thanks
chris

I think Safari's own list is now stored in this file:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist"
Hate that! Wish it was a plain vanilla html file. If that file got messed up or lost or over-written, there is still a chance that much of what you need is here:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari"
When you open that folder you'll see a whole bunch of files with uninformative name, eg
84DCB8E3-5A0E-4161-9F06-5B5CAD6A0B09.webbookmark
If you double click the file it will take you to the web page. I have no idea what criteria determine what gets included in this cache.
If you open the folder, then do Command-F, use the criterion of Kind:Other and type Safari bookmark into the field many of the items will display an actual name. You can choose to view the search window in List View, which I find far more useful than the silly default of Groups.
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