Missing Bookmarks

Discussion in 'Software' started by mark59, Jul 20, 2010.

  1. mark59

    mark59 MajorGeek

    Hi

    I have updated Mozilla Firefox from version 3.6.6 to version 4.0 Beta 1. Following this upgrade my Bookmarks have disappeared. This has never happened before when I have upgraded to a newer version of Firefox.

    It has happened on both my PCs: desktop (running Windows XP) and laptop (running Windows Vista).

    Where can my bookmarks have gone? Can I retrieve them?

    mark59:confused
     
  2. chapincito

    chapincito Specialist

    I Am changing my wife's computer, so I had to transfer her (OK, my Bookmarks) and her Address Book, I google them and that was pretty easy, with a little application mozbackup or something like that and some more info for the transfer of the bookmarks. I do not have the exact info on hand, I Am using her "new" computer and that info are in the old one, but it is pretty easy.;)
     
  3. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    It is never recommended to "upgrade" from one version number to another. So, it wasn't the best idea to try and move from 3.6.7 to version 4, beta.
    I'd uninstall v4, make a copy of bookmarks from 3.6.7 (I keep mine on a floppy but a USB stick works well too). Then try a clean install of v4.
     
  4. mark59

    mark59 MajorGeek

    chapincito I am afraid that I do not understand your answer.

    I know how to export and import bookmarks. I didn't export them before I updated Firefox because it has never been an issue before. But once I'd updated the Bookmarks were gone.

    What I need to know is what might have happened to them and how I might retrieve them.
     
    Last edited: Jul 22, 2010
  5. mark59

    mark59 MajorGeek

    Too late for that now, I have done it!

    I no longer have the older version and I haven't got a copy of bookmarks stored anywhere else. I will from now on. We live and learn.

    Will my bookmarks be anywhere on my computers so that I can retrieve them?
     
  6. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Not if you uninstalled the older version of FF.
     

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