Aaaaaaah! ALL of my Firefox Bookmarks gone!!

[bicentennial_baby]

Except for 3! DU, Yahoo, and my school. Everything else, gone gone gone! They were there last night! 1000s of links... :cry:

x(

help.

[Zomby Woof]

1. That happened to me a few months back

Which is what makes me skeptical about the Cult of Firefox. IE sucks, but it never ate my bookmarks.

If ANY of those bookmarks were once on your IE browser, you can import them again. Unless you deleted IE or never had it.

Otherwise, they are lost. :-(

[bicentennial_baby]

2. i figured as much...

the ones i'm saddest about losing are the ones from after i stopped using IE...sigh.

:cry:

[evil_orange_cat]

3. I may have a solution

sometimes firefox acts weird and remains open in processes even though it's closed... try closing all windows... the ctrl-alt-del... go to processes in task manager and see if firefox.exe is open... if it is, close it...

then open it again and everything should be back to normal.

what happens is, sometimes firefox gets confused and when you open a new window, it creates an alternate identity, thus giving the appearance of erasing all your bookmarks. They are still all there.

If my solution didn't work. Try logging out profiles and logging back in. IIRC, it might require reinstalling.

This happened to me before but I was able to recover everything.

You'll be fine.

Don't worry. :)

[Heddi]

4. TRY THIS---the same thing happened to me

go to Start--->search--->

do a search for "Bookmarks" on your computer

There should be an HTML file that you can open with firefox and it will have links to all your bookmarks. They'll be listed by the folder they were in.

you'll have to manually open each one and re-save it to bookmarks, but they SHOULD be there. It'll take some time but at least you'll have them.

A few months ago, I did a firefox upgrade and there was NOTHING in the instructions that said you had to uninstall the previous version before installing the new version. After I lost my bookmarks, I found out that you are supposed to uninstall before reinstalling.

I about freaked because I have tons of very usable links that i use on a daily basis. I about had a heart attack when I saw that years of bookmarks were just GONE.

Try what I wrote above. it worked for me!

[henslee]

5. I think there is a bookmark backup extension. Anyone know of a good one