Lost…
Posted on November 28, 2004 by Christine | 25 Comments
FireFox has decided to lose all of my bookmarks. All of them. Everything. I normally use a bookmark blog to save them, but for awhile I wasn’t – I had a lot of things saved in bookmarks, and now … gone. Even all of my bookmarklets are gone – no more “Press It” bookmarks, no Delicious bookmarks, no sub with Bloglines, nothing. I don’t even remember what all was there … it’s just now gone. I guess I’ll remember when I go to use it and I can’t find it.
It’s just so stressful when you lose things like that. Trivial, but still stressful.
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November 28th, 2004 @ 2:25 pm
Help! I thought that Firefox was so great. So why did it lose your bookmarks??!!
November 28th, 2004 @ 2:49 pm
No idea. It’s never happened to me before. I could also blame it on the wonky laptop that has issues with shutting down – so I’m not really pointing the finger at FireFox. I think the laptop just flipped out and lost them.
I did a full backup not long ago, but I think I’ll be storing more and more links at del.icio.us instead.
November 28th, 2004 @ 4:28 pm
Hi Christine. They should still be on your computer even if Firefox isn’t showing them. Try going to:
C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
and look for a file called bookmarks.html. If that’s there, you should be able to re-import them back into Firefox. I think. I hope. Good luck.
November 28th, 2004 @ 6:59 pm
I love my synchronize extension in Firefox. I upload them about once a week to my domain.
I’m sorry you lost yours Christine!!
November 28th, 2004 @ 8:04 pm
Oh, man. I’m so sorry. You might try the Bookmark Backup extension – it saves bookmarks and settings… I have it mirrored on my site (http://confettifalling.com/bookmarkbackup.xpi) because the original site seems to have disappeared. It won’t bring your bookmarks back, but for next time…
November 28th, 2004 @ 8:22 pm
Hmm thats too bad, I just started using firefox- Its my first ever move away from any microsoft product. Maybe I shouldnt be so proud of myself
November 29th, 2004 @ 10:33 am
I had that happen a month or so ago – very very stressful. I’ll be trying Marie’s tip though…
November 29th, 2004 @ 11:17 am
One thing I neglected to mention in number 3 above, depending on your setup, you may have to show hidden files or system files or whatever those are called or your computer.
November 29th, 2004 @ 8:01 pm
Doh. That happened to me in Mozilla several times about a year ago. But my old work computer was a little wonky, and Firefox was still called Firebird. Or Phoenix. It hasn’t happened to me in a long time, but I still do an “Export” from “Manage Bookmarks” from time to time. And I save an offsite copy on my server, just in case.
December 10th, 2004 @ 9:29 pm
Firefox lost my bookmarks also. I am just about ready to just use I.E. again and forget Firefox.
January 17th, 2005 @ 3:51 pm
UGGH!! Just happened to me. I’m using portable firefox on my USB drive. I safely removed the device, used it in another machine, then plugged it back in. All gone.
January 24th, 2005 @ 2:58 pm
ME ALSO . . . that’s it, ANY browser out there gets just ONE chance to NUKE 6 months worth of bookmarks. Its back to IE and/or Opera for me . . . with ALL there other shortcomings neither has EVER scortched all bookmarks . . . that just sucks. [p.s. thanks Marie for ur suggestion, that's why i came here (i.e. potential solution/work-around) but, alas, didn't work for me . . . they are just *POOOOOF* gone] dear MOZO, drop me a line, in a couple years, when you figure this out.
February 7th, 2005 @ 11:37 pm
Firefox Bookmark Lost
My office PC was improper shutdown yesterday, when I launched Firefox this morning I found that the bookmarks are all lost!
February 26th, 2005 @ 1:48 am
yup, add me to the list of ppl who lost their bookmarks via Firefox. a window popped up saying that the “default” account was being used so then i went to make a new account and i don’t know how to get back to “default” where everything i bookmarked was. what a big pain.
February 26th, 2005 @ 1:53 am
oh i got mine back!!
See
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1043872
April 10th, 2005 @ 4:46 pm
I unplugged my laptop (improper shutdown) and lost hundreds of bookmarks using Firefox. Big, big bummer.
April 14th, 2005 @ 7:34 am
Yip, I also lost my bookmarks after using Firefox for a day. Looks flashy, but not stable it seems. Back to good old IE.
May 20th, 2005 @ 12:45 am
Oh, after improper shutdown my laptop yesterday, when I launched Firefox this morning I found that the bookmarks are all lost! :~~-(
Firefox 1.0.4 Win XP SP2
June 30th, 2005 @ 4:40 pm
My (thousands) Firefox Bookmarks disappered too … just tonight after an improper shutdown. Back to Ie.
July 20th, 2005 @ 11:15 am
this might help
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/fflostbkmk.html
i thought all my bookmarks were lost for good and then i found this fix got em all back!!
July 22nd, 2005 @ 3:06 am
“My (thousands) Firefox Bookmarks disappered too … just tonight after an improper shutdown. Back to Ie.”
The problem comes from Windows shutting down too soon, not with Firefox being unstable. It relates to the timing of when Firefox saves bookmark data during a session. However, I agree this *is* a major issue (though not one regarding stability) that will be fixed in the near future.
November 25th, 2005 @ 6:42 am
Nice! Add me aswell to the people loosing bookmarks in Firefox after windows crash… Its about the thrid time, and this time the profile tool didnt event find them… Argh! Luckily manually looking in the documents and settings folder, I found them…
November 25th, 2005 @ 6:49 am
ARGH! Oh no, that was the old bookmarks from w few months ago! I finally lost them all it seems!
What a terrible annoying factor with Firefox this is!
January 10th, 2006 @ 1:52 pm
Me and my business partner both lost our s yesterday. We both had unexplained WIndows crash and rebbot thne our bookmarks were gone.
I have windows 2k. Rarely ever crashes…as a matter of fact that might have been my only crash of 2005. Now, both my partner’s and my windows crash on the same day and we both lose our bookmarks. Coincidence? I think not
MA
November 30th, 2007 @ 10:23 am
This is an old thread… but, at the end of 2007, I’ve also experienced this (Firefox bookmarks disappearing).
I have also recently been having my PC (WinXP SP2) spontaneously resetting — and it always seems to be Firefox bookmark files that are corrupted/gone. Coincidence?
I have no way to know for sure it’s Firefox triggering the resets (I also started using Apache/MySQL/PHP on the same machine around the same time as FF), but it never used to happen……. I have up to date virus scanning etc.
I’m going back to IE for a while, and see if the resets stop.
(Too bad, I liked Firefox and I’m no big IE devotee.)