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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:27 pm
by Jimmy
Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy :angry:

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

PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:23 pm
by 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

PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:22 pm
by 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.

:D

PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:27 pm
by 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 :D

Thanks
James

PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:10 am
by 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 :P problem solved, godnes knows how! :lol:

PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:45 am
by ZK-Brock
Haha that's good James, we couldn't do without our little slapping MSN people! :P

PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:30 pm
by JonARNZ
:lol: You guys crack me up :thumbup: