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Bayside Melbourne.
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May 2003
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Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Tue, 29 November 2005 11:11
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Hey guys... I'm using Mozilla Firefox as my internet browser and the other night i was looking at stuff on Toymods when suddenly the power went off. A blackout.
Anyhow, i got pissed off and went to bed. The next morning when i turned on my computer all my bookmarks were gone.
I had also set the toolbar below the standard toolbar to have some selected bookmarks there as buttons. They are gone too.
So basically i have a completely empty bookmarks folder and i want to know why it happened and how i can get them back if it's possible.
I had bookmarked heaps of useful sites that i'd occasionally stumble across... and know they are all gone. And i don't know why. 
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Location:
Brisbane
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February 2003
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Re: Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Tue, 29 November 2005 12:28
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not knowing what your OS is - but search the drive for files called "bookmarks" or "bookmark".
on a mac, the files is called "bookmarks.html" and lives inside here:
/users/<username>/library/Firefox/Profiles/& lt;profile ID>/
and there should be a backup file called (oddly enough) "bookmarks.bak" in the same directory.
Am not sure of the file system structure for a PC or LInux box but i suspect it'll be somehow familar.
cheers,
charles.
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Location:
Bayside Melbourne.
Registered:
May 2003
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Re: Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Tue, 29 November 2005 12:54
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I'm using a PC with Windows XP. I'll take a look.
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Location:
Canberra
Registered:
December 2002
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
September 2004
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Re: Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Wed, 30 November 2005 23:47
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Windows 9x/Me
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Profile name>\
Windows 9x/Me, alternate
C:\Windows\Profiles\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Profile name>\
Windows NT 4.x
C:\Winnt\Profiles\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Profile name>\
Windows 2000/XP
C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Profile name>\%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Pr ofile name>\
Go to the appropriate directory and there should be a file called bookmarks.html
If it HAS become corrupted just create a new profile and migrate your settings into your new profile.
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Location:
Bayside Melbourne.
Registered:
May 2003
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Re: Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Thu, 01 December 2005 01:53
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I looked in the folder that you suggested... I found an HTML file called "bookmarks" and it has only the new bookmarks that i have saved since all my others were lost. I can't find all my old ones.
I'm a novice at anything technical regarding computers. I can use certain programs that i've been taught to use at uni but have little understanding of the workings of a computer and operating systems etc. I have exhausted my computer knowledge trying to find the old bookmarks. :(
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Location:
Sydney
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September 2004
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Re: Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Thu, 01 December 2005 13:43
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I'll assume your using 2000/XP.
When you get to the ../Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/
Can you give me a list of all the folders/files that you see
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Location:
Bayside Melbourne.
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May 2003
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Re: Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Thu, 01 December 2005 13:51
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
September 2004
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
February 2005
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Re: Request for a little help with Mozilla Firefox.
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Sat, 03 December 2005 10:19
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Yeh once mine changed profiles on me and i was like wtf all of my saved info has gone, but then i figured out it just changed into a new profile. So check that out first.
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