Mozilla bookmark backups?....

angieDoom · Oct 19, 2006

I need to get my bookmark backups from about two months ago, but when I open mozilla bookmark backups it just shows my current bookmarks how can I find my old ones?

BCGray · Oct 19, 2006

If you exported your bookmarks to another folder, then you could go there, but as far as I know your Mozilla Bookmark Back-up is just that a current copy of your present bookmarks. I export my Bookmarks about every two months to a seperate folder in My Documents which is automatically backed up every day. Hope that helps

abri · Dec 2, 2006

where are the current ones? I thought they were under default, but that is definitely too small
How can I back the FF ones up?
abri

theefool · Dec 2, 2006

The following link will give info on lost bookmarks:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks

Overall profile management, on where it is kept:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

abri · Dec 3, 2006

Thanks Theefool,
I found them by following an older thread here by going to:

G.T. said:

In Firefox, you're not looking for a bunch of folders, you're looking for a single file called bookmarks.html, and there will likely be a couple of those on your system. If you do a Windows search, you'll likely come up with one in
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile, and that's NOT the one you want. That one is just the default bookmarks that Firefox installs automatically.

Your (his/her) own private list of bookmarks should be in
Documents and Settings/<username>/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxx.default, where <username> is the account name of the person whose bookmarks you're trying to find, and xxxxxx = a long random string of numbers. Within "xxxxxx.default" folder, you should find the one you're looking for, although that one likely WON'T show up on a Windows search, even with Windows set to show all files.

Don't compare file sizes between Windows IE Favorites and Firefox bookmarks. IE uses a bunch of nested folders and discrete URL links, while Firefox simply prints the list in a single .html document. Sizes will differ. Actually OPEN the .html file and read the contents; you should be able to tell if that's the list you're looking for.
Click to expand...

I forgot that they're stored as a html file, i.e. somewhere off in the www.
Thanks very much!
abri

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