Trouble saving bookmarks and backing them up

I have used Mozilla for years. In the last several weeks I have been having trouble with bookmarks. This since my latest upgrade. I can't save bookmarks and I have lost 90% of my saved bookmarks. I have some of them saved in my bookmark folder but when I try and restore them it says the file is not usable. I unistalled the program and reinstalled with the same problem still there. Please help!!

A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
You can check if you still have a JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups with the lost bookmarks. 
You can look at the file size.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

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I would like to save my bookmarks, and email them to one of my Gmail accounts. This way I can download them into another computer.
How do I do this?

A couple of methods.
If you want the bookmarks on the other computer to be replaced with the bookmarks on your current computer, follow the procedure in the [[Backing up and restoring bookmarks]] article to backup the bookmarks to a json file which you can email, and then restore those onto the other computer.
If you want to add the bookmarks to the other computer, but still keep the bookmarks that are already on the other computer, you need to export them to an html file. To do that see [[Exporting bookmarks to an HTML file]]. You can email the html file, and import it to the other computer, for details see [[Importing Bookmarks from an HTML File]].

How would I be able to pull up all of the text messages tat were in my phone over the course of 2 years and back them up to my computer since my phone has a broken screen and can no longer read the mesages.

How would I be able to pull up all of the text messages tat were in my phone over the course of 2 years and back them up to my computer since my phone has a broken screen and can no longer read the mesages.

If the messages are stored on the device and you can power the device up you can use the application posted at https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/770529 , the application has a screen capture option and you can use the screen as a guide to install MyBackup from Market or a number of backup apps from Market and then you can run the applications and backup data to your SD Card to restore to the replacement device.

I accidentally deleted some bookmarks and need them back

I deleted some bookmarks and when I go into Time Machine there is no user/library/safari/bookmarks.plist. So I got out of Time Machine and went and searched for that file and it isn't even on my machine! It's completely gone. help!

In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder from the menu bar, copy the text on the line below into the box that opens, and press return:
~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
A folder should open with an item selected. Enter Time Machine and scroll back to the snapshot you want to restore from. Click Restore. Confirm.

I recently upgraded my Firefox. Since then I've last all my saved bookmarks and am unable to find them. I'm also unable to add new bookmarks.

After upgrading my firefox I have lost all of my bookmarks. I've tried the fixes on your help page and got nowhere. I tried to do a system restore to before the upgrade and it made no difference. Sometimes on this firefox 3.6.10 it will not bookmark pages that I select. I really need my previous bookmarked pages. Please help.

This can be a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
* "Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks" has been renamed to "Show All Bookmarks" in Firefox 4.
* Click the orange Firefox button to open the Firefox menu and click the Bookmarks entry or click "Show All Bookmarks" to open the Library.
See also:
* [/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks]

How to I get back my web address bar, bookmark and back and forth bottons

my web address bar and back and forth bottoms and my bookmark bottoms have disappeared from my browser I can't use firefox without these How do I get them back

'''Menu Bar''' (File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, Help) , see: 
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Menu+bar+is+missing
* Press F10, Menu bar will appear, click View, click Toolbars, click Menu bar
* Press ALT, the Menu bar will appear, click View, click Toolbars, click Menu bar 
* Hold down the ALT button while pressing V+T+M
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#*https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Back+and+forward+or+other+toolbar+items+are+missing
#*http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+customize+the+toolbar
#*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization
#*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
#*http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Navigation+Toolbar+items
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'''Status Bar''': click View, click Status Bar to place a check mark 
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Also see: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization_-_Firefox#Restoring_missing_menu_or_other_toolbars
 
The information submitted with your question indicates that you have out of date plugins with known security issues that should be updated. To see the plugins submitted with your question, click "More system details..." to the right of your original question post.
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HT4906 i have icloud on my mac and iPad. I took pictures, downloaded them to my ipad and backed them up on the iPad. I want to get them from the cloud to my mac. I go to system preferences, iCloud and see that photo stream is greyed out. it says I n

I have photos on my ipad and backed up to the icloud. I go to try to get them from the icloud to my mac pro and it says I need iphoto updatte, but when I go to update iphote it says no update available. what do I do to get my photos onto my computer from icloud

this article explains how to set it up and describes the requirements for different features
http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/
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New BC Forum (Community) is Sluggish, where is previous saved bookmarks and other data?

The new forums seem really sluggish to me compared to the old system. Will this be improved?
Also, my forum account had numerous discussions, bookmarks, etc. None of there are available now. Are they gone or am I missing something?
If gone, kind of defeated the purpose of saving/bookmarking info for later review if it got wiped out.

These forums are run by Adobe themselves through Jive, Lots of changes to fix lots of areas have been on going since the Jive new update.
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If I manually save the bookmarks, and place them on a different computer, are my login passwords for those bookmarks also going to be transfered?

Hi guys! Hope you're doing great!
I want to give some very important bookmarks to a colleague of mine, but for most of them I have passwords saved in Firefox 34.0 (Linux 14.0.4 LTS).
I am worried that giving her the bookmarks that I have downloaded on my PC from the Import/Export Bookmarks option, will also give her the login passwords for them.
Is this going to happen or it's ok to send her the needed bookmarks? I do not have another PC on which I can test that at the moment.
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Passwords are stored in the password files (encrypted).
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'''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/opie/ OPIE]''' {web link}
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I want to copy my Desktop bookmarks and paste them into another computer.

Cannot file a File that contains the bookmarks.

Depending on what you want to do there are a couple of options.
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Exporting+bookmarks+to+an+HTML+file
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Importing+Bookmarks+from+an+HTML+File

How to copy my Firefox bookmarks and paste them into another computer?

OK. I found an answer in a thread here but it is already closed. I have an additional question. The moderator said there:
Quoting:
Depending on what you want to do there are a couple of options.
If you want to replace the bookmarks on the other computer with the bookmarks from your desktop, use the method in this link to backup the bookmarks to a file and then restore them on the other computer - https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Backing+up+and+restoring+bookmarks
If you want to add the bookmarks from the desktop to those that already exist on the other computer, you need to export them to an HTML file, and import that file on the other computer. See these links for details:
https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Exporting+bookmarks+to+an+HTML+file
https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Importing+Bookmarks+from+an+HTML+File
I want to do the second one - "add the bookmarks from the desktop to those that already exist on the other computer"
The problem is that my Firefox is version 4.0. I read somewhere in the bookmarks topics that I should have done nothing before upgrading to version higher than 12.
The thing is my computer is 8 years old and I have only 512 MB RAM. There is no way to upgrade more that v.4.0. My computer can not handle it.
Any suggestions? Can I export and import with v.4.0 safely?

You would have to export the bookmarks to an HTML file on the old (XP) computer.
*Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks > Import & Backup > Export Bookmarks to HTML
Then you can copy this file to an USB stick and import this file in Firefox on the other computer. 
Importing an HTML backup will merge those bookmarks with already existing bookmarks.
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Open Directory)

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Habit I guess. Most things I return to are bookmarked anyway.It's just a privacy thing when friends are over and they want to use it. I really don't need them to know what my daily obsessions are.
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