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    Mozilla ate my bookmarks!

    A little cautionary tale for y'all.

    I have been a content Mozilla Firefox user...until now. I started up my browser and lo and behold, all of my bookmarks were missing.

    Luckily the majority of them were imported from Internet Explorer, but all of my new ones are gone. Countless hours of browsing for cool new sites are now lost.

    So I go to the Mozilla site and check the FAQ's:

    21. Help, my bookmarks are all gone!

    In the very unfortunate event that your bookmarks are lost, you will not be able to restore them unless you have backup. You may try to reclaim some of them from your browsing history; open the History window (go menu, history), right click (option click on Mac OS) on the Web address you want to bookmark, and choose Bookmark this Link.

    This is completely bogus. I have never seen a browser just up and blow out my bookmarks before. Oh freaking well.

    I tried system restore. I tried restoring my registry, but they are simply gone. I guess NOW I know I have to back up my bookmarks regularly.
    "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
    —Orson Welles as Harry Lime
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  • #2
    I've lost them before but you can get them back. It's been awhile so I've totally forgotten what I did to get them back. Just hang tight and someone will come along with the solution.
    Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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    • #3
      That's why I always put my bookmarks in a html page that I use as my opening page for all the browsers I use (Opera, Firefox and IE). It is a little extra work but so I'm sure I won't lose them and that my bookmarks are the same across the three browsers.
      Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
      And notifying the next of kin
      Once again...

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      • #4
        I've had that happen to me. But only once.

        There is also an extension which saves your bookmarks in case something happens to them. It backs up your bookmarks every time you close your browser.
        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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        • #5
          Your bookmarks are stored in a file called bookmarks.html in your profile folder. There's also a backup file of that called bookmarks.bak...
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          • #6
            Thanks for replies, but they are gone. I had found the html backup file and it was blank. I didn't know about the bookmarks.bak file, so I just checked, but they weren't in there any longer.

            What really stinks is I just turned off Norton Protection on my recycle bin as it seems I never used it and it was simply taking up resources. Shame on me.
            "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
            —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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            • #7
              it's happened to me twice, both times for no apperent reason

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              • #8
                Originally posted by MosesPresley
                I had found the html backup file and it was blank.
                The html file is not a backup, it's the primary place your bookmarks are stored.

                What really stinks is I just turned off Norton Protection on my recycle bin as it seems I never used it and it was simply taking up resources. Shame on me.
                So you actually manually deleted the file then? In that case, maybe this recent thread can help:
                Apolyton Civilization Site
                http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=134963
                Civilization II: maps, guides, links, scenarios, patches and utilities (+ Civ2Tech and CivEngineer)

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                • #9
                  What's the problem ? You have them on your backup, so you just have to restore them.
                  With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                  Steven Weinberg

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                  • #10
                    It's happened to me twice, though I recovered them once. Occassionally, for some reason, FF loses the profile and tries to create a new one. If you ignore it and don't make a new profile, you can save your bookmarks.
                    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by BlackCat
                      What's the problem ?
                      Thats easy for you to say! I had a site bookmarked that had a girl who looked just like Pink putting a carrot up her arse......just gone......

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by reds4ever


                        Thats easy for you to say! I had a site bookmarked that had a girl who looked just like Pink putting a carrot up her arse......just gone......
                        Always save pics on your hard drive. Sukkeltje...
                        Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                        And notifying the next of kin
                        Once again...

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by reds4ever


                          Thats easy for yo to say! I had a site bookmarked that had a girl who looked just like Pink putting a carrot up her arse......gone......
                          Wow, that is really sad. Girls fcking themself with a carrot is pretty rare so I understand your loss - except for one thing - why the hell didn't you download it ????
                          With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                          Steven Weinberg

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by BlackCat


                            Wow, that is really sad. Girls fcking themself with a carrot is pretty rare so I understand your loss - except for one thing - why the hell didn't you download it ????
                            I found it again and guess what.....

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Mercator


                              The html file is not a backup, it's the primary place your bookmarks are stored.



                              So you actually manually deleted the file then? In that case, maybe this recent thread can help:
                              http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=134963
                              I didn't manually delete it. It just that norton can sometimes find older versions of the files.
                              "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
                              —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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