Firefox delted my bookmarks

[Jimmy]

Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy

I opened up my firefoxand it tells me its now updated, oh how lovely, like I care

So I go to my favorites to come back to my hoempage and this new "update" has delted all my bookmarks, I had made a folder just for all the fs10 tweaks I found on the net. Fealing really anoyed now as itll taske ages to find all my favoriyes again (especialy harder on dial-up)

Is there anyway i can find a way to restore my nice big list??

Thanks a heap
James

[Zöltuger]

that what you get for not using IE
i presume firefox bookmarks are stored in a folder somewhere. could you locate it maybe? i wouldn't know, i don't use it

[ZK-MAT]

Look in

C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles (hidden folder so, like the fs9 cfg, enable viewing hidden files)

There will be a folder there with random letters and numbers. Open that.

In there there will be several folders. In the root of the random number folder there will be Bookmarks.html and Bookmarks.bak. The Bak is the most recent backup, you could rename that with html and open it to see whether it's the list you want.

If not, look in the folder in there, appropriately named ... bookmarkbackups. You will see at least 5 backups there, usually the last 5 days worth. It does this automatically. As they are already html files, you can just open the to see if they contain your missing bookmarks.

I usually copy and save one somewhere else for safe keeping. Once you have the one you want, copy and paste it into the random letter and number folder, replacing what was there.

[Jimmy]

Oh yup thanks for that I imported it with the bookmark manager but the file with the most recent date didnt work, it must have had an error so I tried the next most recent one and it worked fine

Thanks
James

[Jimmy]

I have anothor problem of deletion with out my wanting it.

MSN messenger has delted my awsome collection of smilies, I went to type a smile key command and it did not work,when I checkhed all my smilies had gone, just the defualt ones

Anyway to get em back? any idea what happend to em, all iv done is run a virus scan last night..


[edit]

well they all seem to have come back from there little holiday now problem solved, godnes knows how!

[ZK-Brock]

Haha that's good James, we couldn't do without our little slapping MSN people!

[JonARNZ]

You guys crack me up