On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:21:59 -0500 (EST)
Andy Random <andy.random@???> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I seem to have lost a whole slew of bookmarks from Firefox on my
> windows machine.
>
My sister had a similar problem
> I'm now running version 1.5.0.9 but only recently did an update at FF
> prompting. I'm not sure if the missing book marks coincided with that
> or not but I've noticed today that I'm missing months of bookmarks on
> this machine :(
She had done an update, but wasn't sure whether there was a coincidence
>
> Something pretty odd seems to be happening as well because having
> shutdown FF and restored a copy of my bookmark file from backup
> (sadly still over a month old) it gets over written with the older
> one as soon as I add a new bookmark!
>
Check for ALL bookmark.html files on your system, and identify which
one contains your old bookmarks (if any). We found one.
> Clearly there is something I don't understand going on there...
>
> Any suggestions (aside from installing Ubuntu:) before I un-install
> FF and reinstall from scratch?
>
We created a new profile and imported bookmarks from the one identified
in the above comment.
>
HTH
