GacccccccccccccK!!11! I lost my bookmarks

[miss_kitty]

in Firefox. Son of a B.:evilfrown:

The last backup I did was in January. Arghhhhhhh!!11!! I did everything. No joy. They disappeared between 'standby' and 'wake up'. gad i am pissed. they fucking disafuckingppeared. First time it's every happened. Really I did EVERTHING. Not asking for help, just wanna bitch about it. and remind everyone to back up shit more often than I do-or rather did.

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[idiosyncratic]

1. Have you looked in the folders in Explorer to see if they are there?

Sorry that happened . . . and thanks for reminding me. I just backed up my Profile stuff, including Bookmarks and Notes and Wand data for my Opera browser.

[miss_kitty]

2. I did a search

for bookmarks and checked the file size on each thing that came up. and checked the date created too. All of them were in "C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox" etc etc. or in my documents or in recent documents. I also did a couple system restores, but Firefox seems to be immune for that; files get renamed during the function for protection. My IE has old old favourites. I did a chkdsk too. They're just fucking gone

On edit: if you have any other ideas, I'm all ears.

[shanti]

3. i've had this happen several times

using netscape as a browser. never has this happened with ie, but i don't use it anymore for securit reasons. i have no idea what causes this.

[Angry Girl]

4. Get the Bookmark Backup extension

http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/

Great extension! Allows you to backup other things too, like passwords, history, and so on. Does it automatically whenever you close Firefox too!

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[miss_kitty]

5. Thanks I did get that

and it fried stuff for awhile-I had and probably still have a larger problem...But stuff is working now and I am also exporting my bookmarks to my documents after I do a lot of bookmarking and clean up to bookmarks.

[Elidor]

6. Oh. man, that hurts. Firefox bit me in the ass, too

I lost over a year's bookmarks, and I bookmark practically anything of interest, especially a lot of political stuff for reference. I think I'll back up my bookmarks right now.

[Wilber_Stool]

7. I always backup my bookmarks

on a floppy. Passwords too. Once a week or more. Just remember to delete the previous backup before the current. That way any marks you delete will will not ge left in the previous backup.

[miss_kitty]

8. I'm going to do that too

but if you keep the name the same, the thing tells you you already have a file with that name and offers to overwrite it.