Why is a Folder of Bookmarks Deleted at Random?

This has happened a number of times, and I have yet to find a solution. At random, a whole folder of my bookmarks (over 50+) will go missing. I check everywhere and can't locate it, so I have to go back into time until I have the folder again. I won't noticed until I try to type in a website within the folder and it doesn't automatically show the bookmark
Why does this happen? Are there common ways that folders of bookmarks are inadvertently deleted? How can it be fixed?

Possibly you inadvertently move folders. If you have a lot of nested folders it is not easy to search for one as Firefox does not have any search for bookmarks folders option.
Once you find a bookmark from a folder you may open that bookmark and find out where the parent folder is. If you have folders where you will not be able to make a good guess at a bookmarks it contains why not create a bookmark as a label and make the name the same as the folder.
*It does not even have to be a genuine bookmark ''foo.bar'' will work as a location.
Or bookmark this thread and rename the bookmark, to remind you what you are doing. Maybe tag the bookmark, or search by name
* [[Awesome Bar - Find your bookmarks, history and tabs when you type in the address bar#w_changing-results-on-the-fly]]_changing-results-on-the-fly
If you suspect bookmarks are disappearing make regular backups
*[[Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer#w_manual-backup]]'''_manual-backup'''
It is worth trying this well respected addon
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/
It may repair possible damage to the bookmarks database.
It is also able to produce a short .txt report log.
*That may help you decide whether or not 50+ bookmarks are going AWOL.
*It will also report on the status of the database. (So you may wish to run the report logger before and after any repair attempt.)
If bookmarks really are disappearing the above may help. The other option is to try recreating the database, but that may lose information.
Are you using sync ?? There are often reports of sync apparently misbehaving.

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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
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Cherry63 wrote:
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Note Outlook's Deleted Items mailbox is where all deleted messages go when you click the Delete tool in the Outlook toolbar. Thus using the Delete tool from the toolbar does not permanently delete the messages. So if you been using that for months or years you are going to have a very large Deleted Items mailbox. And every one of those items in there is going to have a corresponding olk14_message file for that message.
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Hello there,
At work I use a Mac Pro (like this one: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-core-2.8-2008-s pecs.html)... and I have a very weird problem that is really annoying.
I don't have the information (but I can get it tomorrow) on the operating system or any information of the server I am having the issues with. But I was hoping maybe some one else with the same issue might have the answer without all of that information.
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Why Application Data folder is not accessible
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When I access the Application Data folder with administrative privilege on my computer, I get an error message "Access is denied".
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Note:
This FAQ is based on discussions from a previous forum thread (
Accessing "Application Data" in Windows 7 ). Thanks to Ronnie Vernon and other participants' information sharing.
In Windows Vista or later Operating Systems, the default location of user data has changed. The
Application Data folder is not an actual folder. It is a
Junction Point for backward compatibility. A Junction Point is a physical location on a local hard disk that points to another location on that disk or another storage device. It is essentially a shortcut.
You might have noticed when clicking on a folder in
Windows Explorer with a shortcut icon shown on it (a Junction Point ), you get an
Access Denied error message. This is to be expected. By default, the Read permission for Junction Points is set to
Everyone – Deny . You are not supposed to access these folders, and there really is no reason to access these folders.
If you want to know where are those Junction Points pointing to. You can track down the real location of the files by running the command
dir /aL to display all the Junction Points and the locations that the
Junction Points refers to.
For example:
If you want to track down all Junction Points on C: drive, please locate C: drive and enter the following command:
C:\>dir /aL /s
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This article is nonsense. Applications store data in this folder that needs "backed up." As one example only, bookmarks for Google Chrome.
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http://ejohn.org/apps/htmlparser/ 
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<doctype />
< meta >< /meta >
< title >< / title >
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